FinTech Legal
Spain
7 years ranked
INDIVIDUAL PROFILE
Miguel Linares
FinTech 2026
Ranked in 1 practice area
About
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Practice Areas
Miguel Linares Polaino is the founding partner of Linares Abogados and has more than 30 years of experience in financial regulation. He advises Spanish and international financial institutions and FinTechs on financial services regulatory matters, with particular expertise in consumer credit, payment services, e-money, securities markets, crypto-assets, compliance, cross-border activity, distribution structures, dealings with supervisors, investment funds, insurance, regulated entities M&A and anti-money laundering.
He has been involved in first-of-their-kind mandates in Spain, including the registration of the first crypto entity before the Bank of Spain, the launch of the first Spanish electronic money institution and the structuring of the first Spanish online P2P lending platform.
Career
Before founding Linares Abogados in 2010, Miguel was a senior associate at Cuatrecasas, Gonçalves Pereira and previously worked at Cremades & Calvo-Sotelo, Uría Menéndez, ONCE, Roldan Law Offices and Montoro y Avilés. He also served as Professor Assistant at Boston University.
Professional Memberships
Madrid Bar Association
Education
Boston University
LL.M. in International Financial and Banking Law
1994 - 1994
Universidad San Pablo CEU
Law degree
1987 - 1992
Chambers Review
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Professional Advisers: FinTech
FinTech Legal - Spain
Band 2
Individual Editorial
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.
Strengths
Provided by Chambers
Apart from Miguel's kindness, attention and availability, he has always been totally available to advise us with legal and technical rigour.
FinTech LegalProfessional Advisers: FinTechLinares 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.
FinTech LegalProfessional Advisers: FinTechMiguel is very good from a technical perspective and knows the regulations. He is good on anti-money laundering as well.
FinTech LegalProfessional Advisers: FinTech
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