Dentons

Banking and Finance

Country Managing Partner

Jabier Badiola is the Managing Partner for Spain and Head in Dentons’ Banking and Finance practice in Spain. Jabier has been elected to the Europe Board at Dentons following a vote of the Europe Partners.

Jabier specializes in finance law and has more than 20 years of experience in major cross-border syndicated finance transactions, with a particular focus on general lending, asset finance, project finance, structured finance, corporate finance and debt restructuring. Jabier has extensive experience acting for lenders, borrowers and sponsors, with a particular focus on financial institutions and private equities in Europe and Latin America.

English, Italian, Spanish and Basque

Member of the Madrid Bar Association since 2001

·         Libera Universitá Internazionale degli Studi Sociale (LUISS), Centro de Investigación de Derecho de Empresa (CERADI), Postgraduate Studies in Business Law, Rome (2001)

·         University of Oslo, Norway, Exchange program (1999 – 2000)

·         Universidad de Deusto, Degree in Law (2000)

Jabier has authored and co-authored several articles and legal books on financing structures, including "Aproximación a las diferentes modalidades de financiación" in Cuadernos de derecho para ingenieros, sponsored by Iberdrola, S.A., 2016 and "Estudios sobre Financiaciones Sindicadas, 2017".