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Clifford Chance

Clifford Chance

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Spain

3

Financial services regulatory

Clifford Chance offers a broad financial services regulatory practice covering fintech, payment services, and asset management. The team regularly advises on regulatory compliance, fund authorisations, and transactional mandates. Eduardo García leads the group, advising banks, investment funds, and multinational corporations. María Luisa Alonso is a key contact for banking and financial regulatory matters, while Jaime Denis regularly advises credit institutions, asset managers and investment firms on transactional and regulatory licensing issues.
Legal 500 Editorial commentary

Accolades

Client satisfaction: Sector knowledge
Client satisfaction: NPS ®

Testimonials

Collated independently by Legal 500 research team.

  • ‘I would like to highlight the quality of the team and their involvement in the projects, as well as their identification of competitive advantages.’
  • ‘Consistent service quality regardless of the individuals involved. They excel in negotiations with counterparties.'
  • ‘The experience has been very good, and the team that provided the services to us has been exceptional, due to their willingness, knowledge, and generosity in their services.’
  • ‘Jaime Denis is an exceptional professional, fully available and with in-depth knowledge of the subjects he advises on, in addition to always being accessible and willing to collaborate as agreed.’

Key clients

  • Banco Santander
  • Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria (BBVA)
  • Citigroup
  • Bank of America
  • ISDA
  • JP Morgan
  • Futures Industry Association (FIA)
  • Carrefour Group
  • Key Capital Partners
  • Bolsas y Mercados Españoles (BME)
  • Altamar
  • Blackrock Group
  • Credit Agricole
  • Abanca
  • The PNC Financial Services Group
  • Azora Gestión
  • YielCo Investments
  • Candriam

Work highlights

Advised Santander on an internal compliance exercise aimed at reconfirming that the banking, payments and investment services licences currently held by the banking group effectively and accurately cover the different services provided therein.
Advising Abanca, a Spanish bank, on the reorganisation of its operations in Portugal following the acquisition of Portuguese bank EuroBic.
Advises KCP on the authorisation of the first EU trading venue focused on equity derivatives.
Practice head

Eduardo García

Other key lawyers

Ildefonso Alier; María Luisa Alonso; Leonardo Fernández; Jaime Denis