Pérez-Llorca’s Capital Markets team has wide-ranging technical knowledge and considerable experience in matters related to capital markets, which places us at the forefront of legal knowledge on the matter and keeps us in regular contact with the authorities and bodies that regulate these markets. Likewise, the support from other practice areas at the firm allows us to provide a complete legal service.
We offer comprehensive legal advice to issuers, insurers, underwriters, selling shareholders, sponsors, global coordinators and other market participants. We advise on areas including:
EQUITY CAPITAL MARKETS (ECM):
- Advising on all types of domestic and international offerings, listings, IPOs, capital increases, private placements and block trades, convertible and exchangeable bond issuances, equity lines and takeover bids, including both regulated markets and multilateral trading systems.
- All legal aspects related to capital markets and corporate governance of listed companies, including complying with information update requirements and transparency requirements, reporting significant shareholdings, preparing and holding shareholders’ general meetings and boards of directors, complying with conduct and market abuse rules and regulations.
DEBT CAPITAL MARKETS (DCM)
- Advising in connection with the issuance of all types of debt instruments, including the establishment and updating of programmes for the issuance of long-, medium- and short-term debt, Eurobond issues, equity-linked products, hybrid instruments, high-yield bonds, regulatory capital, covered bonds and bond issuances by (or guaranteed by) public sector entities.
- Advising in relation to debt tender offers and exchange offers.
STRUCTURED FINANCE AND SECURITISATION
- Advising on structured financings and securitisations (both “cash” and “synthetic”) of all asset classes (including RMBS, CMBS, SMEs, auto loans, credit cards, trade receivables and WBS, among other assets).
- Advising on asset-based financing transactions, on sale and purchase transactions of loan portfolios with a financial structuring component and on project bond issues.
