Antonio Sánchez-Valles Managing Director- Financial Sponsors Coverage BBVA

Antonio has 18 years of experience in Leveraged and Structured Finance (Securitisation and Asset backed Lending). Before joining BBVA in 2011, Antonio spent 7 years at The Royal Bank of Scotland, working in the Leveraged Finance team and prior to that, 4 years at Société Générale in the Structured Finance team. At RBS, Antonio was Senior Director of the Leveraged Finance team for Spain & Portugal. Within BBVA’s Financial Sponsors group, Antonio is in charge of Private Equity Funds coverage.

Alexandre Bruyelle Partner Arcano Partners

Alexandre is portfolio manager at Arcano Credit, in charge of investments in leveraged loans and private debt. Prior to joining Arcano in 2013, Alexandre was a debt advisor at PwC for one year in Madrid.

Prior to that Alexandre worked as an investment director for European Capital (low LGT) in Paris for 7 years, originating, executing and monitoring unitranche, mezzanine and equity investments in the French LBO mid-market.

He began his professional career at BNP Paribas Corporate Finance where he worked for 6 years in Paris, Madrid and London.

Alexandre received a Master´s degree in Finance from University Paris IX Dauphine and a post-graduate Degree in Finance at ESSEC Graduate School of Management.

Leticia Ruenes Managing Director, Head of Spain Pemberton Asset Management

Managing Director, Head of Spain

Leticia Ruenes is Head of Spain, responsible for developing Pemberton’s growing presence in the Spanish market and opening the office in Madrid.

Leticia joined Pemberton in 2020. Before that she spent 17 years at RBS / Natwest Bank where she held several roles including latterly Head of the European Structured Finance Portfolio, overseeing LBOs, infra and project finance assets in Europe. Prior to this she had been Global Head of project finance portfolio and distribution, and Director in the leveraged finance origination team in Spain. Before joining RBS in 2003, she was part of the M&A team at ING.

Leticia has over 20 years’ experience in investment banking, leveraged loans and European corporate and credit markets. She is a CFA Charterholder and graduated from ICADE University in Spain with a double degree in Law and Business Administration. 

Miguel González Moyano Partner, Co-Head of Senior Debt Oquendo Capital

Miguel joins Oquendo in 2019 contributing with over 15 years of experience in corporate lending, acquisition finance and transaction services.

Prior to joining Oquendo, Miguel has been working for c. 10 years in Senior roles within the Structured Finance team of Caixabank where he led coverage for companies in regions of Central (including Madrid) and Northern Spain. He has been directly involved in the origination and execution of more than 200 deals in the Spanish Middle Market. 
Prior to this, Miguel worked from 2005 to 2008 in the Corporate Finance department of CEMEX being involved in the financing of the Group.

Fernando Navarro Partner, Head of Banking Spain White & Case

Fernando Navarro is a partner in the EMEA Banking Team and head of the Madrid Banking Group.

His practice focuses on a wide variety of financing transactions through syndicated and bilateral loans, acting for both lenders and borrowers, as well as on derivatives, structured products, securitisation and DCM. He has also participated in a number of portfolio disposals acting for numerous Spanish and international banks and funds.

Fernando has vast experience in asset finance, trade finance, aviation finance and project finance.

Fernando is highly recommended as a Banking lawyer by Chambers where he is mentioned as being capable to translate "questions of great legal and technical complexity to a commercial and easily intelligible level" and by IFLR1000 where is rated as "highly regarded".

Emilio López Fernández Managing Director, Head of Corporate Lending Iberia BBVA

Emilio López is Managing Director and Head of Corporate Loans for Iberian clients since 2016. He joined BBVA in 2010 and has been involved in the origination and execution of landmark syndicated deals in the European market, including jumbo structured facilities and sustainable financings. Before joining BBVA, Emilio worked 5 years at The Royal Bank of Scotland in Leveraged Finance in London and at Rothschild & Co. in Advisory in Paris.

Emilio has both Spanish and French citizenships. He has a BA in Economics and a Master's degree in Finance from Sciences-Po Paris. He is also Professor of Corporate Finance at the Universidad de Navarra in Madrid (Master in Banking and Financial Regulation).

Yoko Takagi Partner White & Case

Yoko is a partner in the Firm's Corporate Group in Madrid. Drawing on her deep and wide-ranging knowledge of corporate law, her practice focuses on mergers and acquisitions, corporate finance and capital markets transactions. Her track record spans a broad spectrum of public and private transactions, mostly with an international component. Clients benefit from Yoko's knowledge and experience of advising private equity funds, companies, sponsors and investment banks on transactions involving a wide array of industries, including energy, financial institutions, cleantech and telecommunications. Yoko was a founding member of the Firm's Madrid office in 2013, since when she has been supporting the needs of clients investing in Spain, as well as helping Spanish clients to expand globally.

Álvaro Cobo Managing Director, Spain & Portugal Gordon Brothers

Álvaro joins as Managing Director and will head up Gordon Brothers’ operations for Iberia, where he will oversee and facilitate the growth of individual business services across Spain & Portugal. 

Álvaro has over 17 years’ experience in Restructuring, Private Equity and M&A. He is a Partner at Amura Management Partners, a leading Spanish advisory and interim management firm focused on special situations and restructurings. 

Prior to Amura, Álvaro spent five years as a Partner at Atlas Capital, a Private Equity Fund investing in LBO and growth capital deals, where he led several investments in mid-size companies. He started his career as a management consultant at The Boston Consulting Group and spent five years at DC Advisory (formerly Close Brothers), advising on a large number of M&A deals. 

Álvaro graduated in Industrial Engineering from the University of Navarra and holds an MBA degree from IESE. He speaks Spanish and English.

Sergio Velez Senior Managing Director and Responsible for FTI Consulting Madrid Office FTI Consulting

Sergio Velez is a Senior Managing Director and leads the FTI Consulting Madrid office. He focuses on Corporate Finance and more specifically on special situations, restructuring, Loan to Own strategies, interim management, and advises investors and lenders in all aspects of the investment process including pre-transaction, structuring, post-acquisition and portfolio governance.

Sergio has more than 19 years of business and restructuring experience in Europe and Latin America. He has advised multinational and domestic clients on transactions, operations and corporate finance including performance improvement and transformation , turnarounds, cash management, interim management, cost reduction, forecasting and financial advisory.

Sergio has covered a wide variety of business sectors, including industrials, renewable energy, automotive, distribution, food, Real Estate, leisure, manufacturing, etc. Sergio also serves as BoD member and advisor in various companies in Spain including public companies.

Sergio developed his professional career in various jurisdictions including Spain, Italy and Latin America holding different management and finance positions in various multinationals and Alvarez & Marsal. Sergio is a graduate in Finance & Economics and MBA for Instituto de Empresa of Madrid. Sergio is fluent in Spanish, English and Italian and has a working knowledge of French.

Daniel Herrero Founding Partner Oquendo Capital

Daniel is a founding partner at Oquendo Capital and has over 20 years of experience in financing and advising Spanish middle market companies.
In 2002, Daniel founded Oquendo Corporate, an independent M&A firm focused on the Spanish mid-market where he advised on more than 15 transactions for an aggregate amount of over Euro 1.500 million. Daniel was previously a partner at Quabbala Asesores, an independent strategic consulting firm that provided advice to large Spanish corporates. Between 1995 and 2000, Daniel developed his career in London, where he held different positions in the M&A teams at Deutsche Bank, Bankers Trust and Merrill Lynch.
Daniel speaks English and Spanish and has a degree in Economics and Business Administration from CUNEF.

Ignacio Lopez del Hierro Head of Private Debt Iberia Tikehau Capital

Ignacio has more than 18 years of experience in the financial sector having worked in different positions through his career both in Madrid and Paris. Before joining Tikehau in 2018 as responsible for the Private Debt business in Iberia, Ignacio worked in Société Generale, BNP Paribas and Bankinter doing investment banking for Spanish corporates as well as leveraged acquisition financings. Ignacio holds a Bachelor Degree in Law and Business and Economics from University Pontificia Comillas – ICADE –.

Ferran Foix Miralles Managing Partner- London Office Gómez-Acebo & Pombo

Ferran is admitted to practice in Spain and New York and has more than 15 years of experience in leading law firms in Spain and in the U.S.

Having worked in Barcelona for a Spanish law firm and in New York for a major US law firm, he joined GA_P in 2008. Initially based in the Madrid office, in 2018 Ferran has been appointed Managing Partner of GA_P’s London office.

Ferran represents local and international companies, financial entities, hedge funds, venture capital funds and private equity funds in domestic and cross-border financings, capital markets transactions, LBOs, restructurings and project finance transactions.

He has a Degree in Law by Universidad de Navarra (1999), a bachelors degree by ESADE (2000) and an LL.M. Degree from New York University (2003). He is member of the Barcelona and New York Bar Associations.