Bio

Yaukuma has been an active turnaround manager for the last 20 years, both in Spain and Latin America. After working for the World Bank and other international organizations in Latin America, he gathered his first M&A experience by serving as a Managing Director in different Spanish industrial conglomerates. Until today, Yaukuma designed and performed over 25 transactions in special situations, many of them cross-border. After the successful exit from one of his restructured enterprises, he specialized in distressed buy-outs, build-ups and real estate with focus amongst others on the manufacturing, retail, logistics and services industries. Yaukuma studied business administration in Germany and Spain and holds a MA in International Economics from the University of Sussex (UK).