Bio

Luis De la Pena Fernandez-Nespral is a partner in the Corporate/Commercial Law Department at Garrigues, where he has pursued his professional career. He specializes in financial and regulatory law and is co-head of the Garrigues FinTech Hub. Among other areas, he is an expert in banking regulations, consumer finance, distance financial services, collective investment vehicles, pension funds, investment services, private equity, payment services, e-money, and in all regulatory aspects of financial products and the prevention of money laundering. Luis is the lawyer of choice at several Spanish and foreign financial institutions operating Spain. He has a degree in law from San Pablo-CEU (Universidad Complutense de Madrid) and an Associate’s Degree in EU law (CEU-San Pablo). He has been singled out by the main legal directories (Chambers & Partners, The Legal 500 and IFLR 1000). He speaks Spanish, French and English.