David Díaz Villar > Ramón y Cajal Abogados > Madrid, Spain > Lawyer Profile
Ramón y Cajal Abogados Offices
CALLE ALMAGRO 16-18
28010 MADRID
Spain
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David Díaz Villar
Work Department
Financial Regulation and CISS
Position
Senior Associate
Career
David is a Senior Associate in the Corporate and Commercial Law Department, more specifically in the areas of Financial Regulation and Collective Investment Institutions. He joined the firm in 2017, where he has developed almost his entire career.
His professional activity focuses on corporate advice, especially in the field of financial regulation; rules of conduct and good practices related to financial services and products; regulation of transparency and market abuse; corporate governance; business ethics and money laundering, having advised listed entities and/or entities supervised by Spanish National Securities Market Commission (CNMV), the Bank of Spain or the Spanish Executive Service of the Committee on Money Laundering Prevention and Monetary Infringements (SEPBLAC).
He also advises on authorization (ESI, SGEIC, FCR, among others), supervision and inspection and disciplinary procedures, both administratively and judicially, before the Spanish National High Court and the Supreme Court.
In addition to having participated in various applications for state public aid in the framework of the Solvency Support Fund for Strategic Companies, David has been part, as an external advisor, of the Integrity & Legal Compliance department of an IBEX-35 company and of the department responsible for the prevention of money laundering and the financing of terrorism in a hybrid payment institution.
Languages
English
Memberships
Madrid Bar Association (Ilustre Colegio de Abogados de Madrid, ICAM).
Education
Personal
Contributor to “Corporate Governance 2018” – Spain May and 2019 and 2020 updates.
Contributor with the Spanish Official Gazette (Boletín Oficial Español) in the preparation of the “Códigos BOE” collection: “Código de Cumplimiento Normativo en Entidades Financieras” (Financial Institutions Compliance Code) and the “Código de Gobierno Corporativo” (Code of Corporate Governance), and subsequent updates.
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- Capital markets: Debt
- Capital markets: Equity
- Data privacy and data protection
- Industry focus: Food
- Industry focus: TMT
- Public law
- Dispute resolution
- Industry focus: Healthcare and life sciences
- Banking and finance
- Commercial, corporate and M&A
- Environment
- Projects and energy
- Real estate and construction
- Restructuring and insolvency
- White-collar crime
- EU and competition