Find Lawyers in Spain for Investment Funds
Practice Area Overview
There are different kinds of investment funds. On one hand, there are funds focused on retail investors and others that are considered as an alternative investment. On the other hand, other alternative investment funds include entities such as hedge funds, real estate funds, and venture capital funds.
The rules governing the financial markets aim to efficiently channel savings into productive investment, ensuring market stability and investor protection, so that a balanced growth that contributes to job creation is achieved.
The recent financial crisis has highlighted serious shortcomings in the systems of financial supervision and there has been a loss in confidence in the financial market, hence new legislation has been needed to strengthen monitoring systems and protection of private citizens to restore that confidence.
In practice, managing an investment fund not only involves making financial management, but can also entail advice on business and professional management that allows the creation, development, or maintenance of business.
Therefore, the intervention of investment funds in certain sectors can assume, on the one hand, the provision of financing needed for that businesses, and on the other hand, participation in the activity of these companies by qualified professionals that can improve their management through the contribution of their knowledge and experience, consequently improving their efficiency.
Investment funds provide an opportunity for small and medium investors to participate in the capital markets with counseling that is available to major investors.
Depending on the risk and return to be obtained, there are different types of investment funds, being able to choose between lower risk funds offering lower returns or other riskier, which offer higher returns.
However, there is the possibility of contracting additional services to mitigate risk while investing in a risky fund, which may be an alternative for families and traditional savers.
Practice areas Corporate/M&A. Alejandro Alberte has extensive experience in advising on all types of corporate transactions (LBOs, MBOs, mergers, acquisitions, restructurings, joint ventures), mainly with an international component. More recently, he has developed a strong energy and infrastructure practice, with a particular focus on investment funds in these sectors. He has also advised on other M&A transactions with private equity funds and big national and international industrial...
Toni Barios is partner of Cases & Lacambra. He leads the Finance practice inside the financial services group. He advices financial institutions and companies in all sorts of financing and debt-restructuring transactions, bilateral and syndicated, national and cross-border, including structured finance, corporate and acquisition finance, project finance (real estate, energy and infrastructures) and in the structuring and granting of guarantees. His practice includes the advice to financia...
Practice Areas Corporate/M&A. Javier specialises in private equity transactions in the healthcare, infrastructure and energy and financial sectors. He has 17 years of experience advising domestic and foreign clients on transactional matters, particularly in M&A, joint ventures and carve-outs, with a special focus on private equity. In addition, Javier participated in a secondment programme in the investment banking department at Nomura (London). He has extensive experience in commerci...
Miguel Cases is the co-managing partner of Cases&Lacambra. He leads Banking & Finance Group of the Firm and is qualified to practice both in Spain and the Principality of Andorra. He has extensive experience advising credit institutions and investment services firms, acting regularly as the key legal counsel for major national and international financial institutions, public administrations and both public and private investment funds in the structuring of financial transactions, deri...
Practice Areas Banking & Finance, Corporate M&A. Mónica is an expert in Banking and Finance law. She has advised national and international clients, listed and unlisted companies, and has participated in financing, restructuring, debt acquisition and asset finance transactions. Career Mónica joined Pérez-Llorca in 2015. Degree in Law, Universidad Pontificia Comillas (ICADE), Madrid Bar Admissions Spain, The Madrid Bar Association (ICAM). Languages Spanish, English
Jorge holds a degree in Law and Econocmics from the Carlos III University of Madrid. He has extensive experience in financial law, with broad experience in MIFID, IDD, MAD, AML, EMIR, UCITS, AIFMD, e-payments, fintech and crowdfunding regulations, as well as corporate governance and compliance. Jorge has also a wealth of experience in expertise in mercantile and regulatory matters, such as opening of branches and representative offices, cross-border activities, structuring investment vehicles...
Practice Areas Banking and Finance Josefina has 15 years of professional experience in leading national and international law firms. She specialises in the Financial Services and Fund Formation practices. She has extensive experience in financial regulation and investment funds, advising banks, investment services companies, management companies and all types of national and international financial institutions on financial services authorisation and passporting procedures, investment product...
Practice areas: Corporate/M&A, Private Equity, Capital Markets, Banking & Finance Pedro Pérez-Llorca's corporate practice has a strong international dimension, focusing on public and private M&A, large private equity investments, public takeovers and finance matters. He has been involved in the most significant transactions in Spain and those with a Spanish component, including the largest public takeover, the largest cross-border merger and the largest privatisation and IP...
Lawyer specialized in Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A), private funds, sustainable investments (SRI), venture capital, private equity, corporate transactions, corporate restructurings, distressed M&A, corporate law and corporate finance law. More than 10 years of experience as an active lawyer, more than 50 M&A transactions advised, including international and national deals and provided advice regarding the creation of several investment funds. Member of the Barcelona Bar Associati...
Practice Areas: Corporate/M&A, Banking & Finance Fernando Quicios advises funds, financial entities, and companies on their investments and divestments in Spain, particularly in restructuring and special situations, both regarding debt and equity. He has extensive experience in public and private M&A work and private equity deals. His recent work focuses on distressed PE and M&A. Fernando joined Pérez-Llorca in 1999 and was made partner in 2006. He set up Pérez-L...
Practice Areas Corporate. Felipe specialises in Corporate and Finance Law, especially in M&A transactions, the restructuring of businesses and business groups, project finance, corporate law, commercial contracts, private equity and capital market transactions. Career Felipe Ramírez joined Pérez-Llorca in 2012. In 2019 he went on secondment to the London-based firm Stephenson Harwood. Professional Memberships The Barcelona Bar Association (ICAB) Education Master’s degr...
Practice Areas His areas of expertise are real estate financing, real estate investment and M&A and debt situations. He has advised a wide range of banks and other lenders, real estate investors and debt traders. Jesús is known in the market for his expertise in debt portfolio trades, property financings and private equity deals in the real estate sector, and is a regular speaker at real estate conferences. Jesús has acted for a wide range of banks, institutional investors, ...
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