Simmons & Simmons

Financial Markets/Capital Markets

Alfredo specialises in capital markets, structured products, derivatives and distressed debt (acquisitions and disposals of secured and unsecured NPL portfolios).

Alfredo is the Head of the Financial Markets practice in Spain. He advises investment banks, commercial banks and corporates on a variety of large transactions, such as debt issues, MTN and ECP Programmes, repackagings, securitisations and other complex structure finance transactions.

He is a recognised practitioner, with extensive expertise in advising issuers/arrangers and institutional investors on a wide range of financings. He also advises hedge funds on the acquisition and disposal of secured and unsecured NPL portfolios. His knowledge of the Spanish market and understanding of its clients business allow him to create strategic legal solutions to its clients.

Alfredo is dual qualified, he was admitted as a lawyer in Spain in 1997 and as a solicitor to the Supreme Court of England and Wales in 1998. This dual qualification gives him a competitive strength in the market through his rare capability in offering advice to the firm’s clients with interests in Spain, the UK and the US.

Alfredo joined the financial markets team, in London in January 1997 and moved to the Madrid office in February 1999. He attained partnership status at Simmons & Simmons in May 2006.

Spanish (native) and english.

He was admitted as a lawyer in Spain in 1997 and as a solicitor to the Supreme Court of England and Wales in 1998.