Luis de la Peña
Europe Guide 2024
Band 2 : Banking & Finance: Financial Services Regulation
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About
Provided by Luis de la Peña
Practice Areas
Partner. Expert in Financial & Regulatory matters. Provides regulatory legal advice to credit institutions, investment firms, management companies, CIS, AIF (specially, Hedge Funds), private equity funds, etc. He is specially active in FinTech, payment services and electronic money entities.
Wide experience with the whole set of financial regulations and, particularly, with MiFID II, PRIIPs and PSD2. He also participates in the regulatory side of M&A transactions regarding regulated entities.
He is also specialized in anti-money laundering legislation, market abuse and codes of conduct of supervised entities.
He advices in all kind of sanctioning proceedings before regulators.
Frequent speaker at seminars regarding Financial & Regulatory matters.
Contributor to leading Spanish legal magazines.
Career
Joined Garrigues in 1996. Law degree UCM and degree in EU law from Universidad San Pablo-CEU.
Professional Memberships
Madrid Bar Association.
Chambers Review
Europe
Luis de la Peña is widely appreciated for his prowess in handling the authorisation and establishment of asset management companies as well as M&A transactions requiring regulatory clearance.