Salvador Ruiz Bachs

Practice Areas

Financial Services Regulatory and Capital Markets (Debt)

Personal

Salvador is an expert in debt capital markets, derivatives and structured finance and financial regulation.

Salvador has wide experience in national and international capital markets. He is an expert in regulatory capital and mrel issuances and he regularly advises on debt capital markets, convertible bonds, GMTN and EMTN commercial paper programmes. He has also wide experience in the design, negotiation, and marketing of derivatives, synthetic securitisations, and structured products. He is an expert in financial regulation especially on the resolution regime of financial institutions. He is the head of the EU BRRD center of excellence leading the advice to resolution authorities and financial institutions on resolution planning and resolution actions. He advises financial entities, particularly, banks, investment firms, fund management companies, private equity firms, insurance and pension funds, among others, licensing and products requirements, rules of conduct, capital requirements, investment rules, major holdings in financial institutions and listed companies, transparency requirements and AML. His professional practice is also focused on contractual matters about banking, investment, insurance and other financial services. He is an expert in fintech having advised on some of the first blockchain capital markets issuances and advises on crypto currency business.

Salvador has been ranked as leading individual in financial services regulatory and Debt Capital Markets by Chambers & Partners and also highlighted in Legal 500 and IFLR as an expert in banking and finance.