About

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Dentons' Banking and Finance team in Spain provides top-tier legal counsel across the full spectrum of local and cross-border finance activities, leveraging extensive experience in both Europe's leading financial hubs and emerging markets. Renowned for advising on pioneering matters, we play a key role in financing local industries in developing economies.


The team is led by Jabier Badiola, Head of the Banking and Finance department, who is supported by a group of highly skilled specialists. Luis Belart focuses on project finance, while Jesús Mardomingo leads in regulatory and fintech matters. Ignacio Corujo provides expertise in capital markets, and Ignacio Fernández, a senior associate, specializes in aviation finance.


Our team specializes in five main areas:

  • Project Finance
  • Structured Finance
  • Financial Regulatory (including insurance, fintech, and derivatives)
  • Commercial Lending (including acquisition finance, real estate finance, leveraged buyouts, fund finance, corporate finance, and green financing)
  • Debt Capital Markets


We collaborate closely with our Capital Markets, Energy, Real Estate, and Restructuring teams to deliver innovative solutions to complex financial and regulatory challenges. Many transactions involve seamless cross-border cooperation across Europe, the UK, and the US. Spain’s strategic position also facilitates effective collaboration on Europe-Latin America deals, leveraging linguistic and cultural synergies.

Chambers Review

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Banking & Finance - Spain

4
Band 4

What the Team is Known For

Dentons advises banks on multi-jurisdictional banking and finance transactions. The team is particularly active in the handling of real estate acquisition, mid-cap corporate, export and syndicated financings. The firm boosts its service offering with further strength in asset finance and large debt restructurings. The firm also assists public authorities with sovereign financing and relevant transactions. Dentons' international office network further facilitates the effective handling of complex matters.

Work Highlights

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  • Dentons advised JSC on the regulatory aspects of obtaining its Spanish licensing.

Strengths

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Notable Practitioners

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Jesús Mardomingo
2
Jesús Mardomingo
2
Band 2
Jesús Mardomingo is highly active across a plethora of regulatory, transactional and restructuring matters, assisting clients with cryptocurrency, market entries of financial service providers and regulatory advice for acquisitions.

Not only does he know the market perfectly and its trends, but his network is very large at all levels.

Jesús is both commercial and constructive, which makes negotiations more efficient.

He is able to leverage the entire firm seamlessly, bringing in specialist knowledge to help expedite key issues.

Jabier Badiola
4
Jabier Badiola
4
Band 4
Jabier Badiola assists with a broad spectrum of banking and finance mandates ranging from debt and acquisition financing to fund financing transactions. He also supports clients with facility agreements, where he acts for borrowers and sponsors.

Jabier provides agility and understanding of the deals.

He is very active and involved, meaning he is able to bring that comprehensive vision of the market.

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Spain

Banking & Finance

Jabier Badiola
4
Jabier Badiola
4
Band 4
Banking & Finance: Financial Services Regulation

Jesús Mardomingo
2
Jesús Mardomingo
2
Band 2

Members

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Ignacio Fernández

Luis Belart

Industries

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Aviation

Energy

Infrastructure

Private Equity

Real Estate

Retail

Transportation