Simmons & Simmons

Francisco is a partner in the Corporate and Commercial practice of our Madrid office, with extensive experience in M&A and general company law matters.

In particular, Francisco has vast knowledge of M&A transactions in the insurance, financial services, collective investment, securitisation funds and pension funds management sectors, having participated, throughout his 25 years of experience, in numerous transactions of acquisition and sale of insurance companies, insurance portfolios and other regulated financial entities, with a particular focus on bancassurance alliances between Spanish credit institutions and foreign and Spanish insurance groups. He has also participated in complex reinsurance operations of great economic significance, such as reinsurance of large life risk insurance portfolios for the monetization of their value (VIF monetization reinsurance).

Francisco also regularly advises various entities in the insurance and financial sectors on matters relating to insurance regulation (in particular Solvency II, insurance distribution EU and national rules and insurance contract law), pension plans and pension funds, right of establishment and freedom of services regime for insurance companies and intermediaries, financial services customer protection and the mortgage market.

Throughout his career he has published several articles in specialized journals and participated in collective works on insurance supervision regulations, distribution, pension plans and funds and general commercial law.

Francisco is a member of SEAIDA, the Spanish Section of the International Insurance Law Association (AIDA), where has participated in different groups, including the group speclialised in public supervision of insurance undertakings.

Francisco has a degree of law from the Universidad Complutense de Madrid (Colegio Universitario CEU).