About

CaixaBank’s chief legal officer Lluis Vendrell Pi believes that assuming his current role has been the biggest challenge throughout his career, as he had to become a banking expert in a very short period of time. He started his career in 1996 as a corporate lawyer with Uria Menéndez, and in 2007 became the general counsel at Criteria CaixaCorp. S.A., which was the investment holding company controlled by the savings institution La Caixa. In June 2011 Criteria CaixaCorp absorbed the banking business of La Caixa and created the current CaixaBank, making it one of the largest in the Spanish market. Since its inception, Vendrell Pi has been responsible for the legal M&A area, where he leads a legal team of four. During his time at CaixaBank he has been actively involved in a number of strategic projects and highly complex M&A deals, and he has impressed peers and clients with his ability to execute transactions at high speed and to the highest quality.