Oscar de Santiago Bio

Óscar de Santiago is a partner of Garrigues and co-head of the firm’s Catalonia, Aragon and Balearic Islands area practice. He is also the head of the area’s Corporate/Commercial Law department. With more than 25 years’ experience in corporate/commercial law practice, his main area of expertise is real estate law, both on the more traditional side, taking in sale and purchase, construction and lease transactions, and in more finance-related aspects, including debt portfolio trades, real estate financing for banks and alternative lenders (direct lending), special situations and corporate investments via the acquisition of equity interests and/or under mezzanine arrangements in joint ventures. He has participated in major transactions in all sectors of the real estate industry in Spain, such as residential (build-to-rent and co-living), offices (sale & leaseback) and co-working spaces, retail, logistics, hotels, hospital and life science, student residences and senior residences.