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FinTech Legal - Spain

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Band 3

What the Team is Known For

Linares Abogados is a boutique law firm for legal and regulatory work in FinTech. The firm acts for payments, e-money, and credit institutions needing authorisation from the Bank of Spain, or needing to passport their services to and from Spain.

Work Highlights

  • Linares Abogados has advised the town council of Santa Coloma de Gramenet on the use of its own digital, local currency, the Grama. Linares has advised the council to alter the regulations around this currency and its terms and conditions to extend its use to all its citizens. This has also advised advice on the prevention of money laundering with its currency.

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Notable Practitioners

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Miguel Linares
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Band 2

Miguel Linares regularly advises startup and scale-up FinTechs on regulatory matters, including Spanish and EU-wide authorisation processes. Linares acts for clients in the banking, payments, e-money and financing industries.

Apart from Miguel's kindness, attention and availability, he has always been totally available to advise us with legal and technical rigour.

Linares is very present, which we appreciate. He is very professional and he can represent us and support us, which gives us a lot of security.

Miguel is very good from a technical perspective and knows the regulations. He is good on anti-money laundering as well.

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Miguel Linares
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