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CMS Albiñana & Suárez de Lezo's Financial Markets & Services team has advised numerous Spanish and multinational entities on some of the largest financial transactions of the last few decades. A combination of experience, thoroughness and innovation in our service offering enables us to stay one step ahead of market developments and build lasting relationships with clients.

The CMS Financial Markets & Services practice is one of Europe’s largest and provides local and pan-European expertise in the full spectrum of banking, financial, regulatory and capital markets law.

With extensive knowledge of market trends, the CMS Albiñana & Suárez de Lezo team is able to anticipate changes in banking and financial regulation and offer a tailor-made service to clients such as banks, companies, financial service providers, investment funds and public authorities.

We provide both local advice and multi-jurisdictional expertise, taking a personalised approach to select the teams that will best fit with the scope of each matter.

Our network consists of over 500 banking and finance lawyers who have proven their pan-European skills through having worked together for over a decade.

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Cap­it­al Mar­kets
We have a long-established practice as recognized and highly-regarded specialists with a proven and impressive track record in the field of capital ma
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Fin­an­cial Reg­u­la­tion
The CMS Financial Services Sector Group provides specialist advice on the regulation of financial institutions and financial services. Services&n
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FinTech
CMS' FinTech practice is home to one of Spain's most renowned teams given its participation in the development of the sector in the country from the v
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Real Es­tate Fin­ance
The real estate finance market has undergone significant change in recent years, with increased regulation, the entrance of more categories of lenders
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26/05/2023
Per­form­ing ser­vices in a de­cent­ral­ised man­ner un­der Mi­CAR
At the end of April 2023, the European par­lia­ment de­cided on a uni­form reg­u­la­tion of crypto as­sets across the EU by vot­ing on the MiCA reg­u­la­tion (i.e. mar­kets in crypto-as­sets). The in­ten­ded in­nov­a­tions...
Law-Now Banking & Finance
24/05/2023
De­Fi and MiCA: How much de­cent­ral­isa­tion is enough?
The European Uni­on Coun­cil has re­cently ad­op­ted a reg­u­la­tion on Mar­kets in Crypto-As­sets (MiCA) that ap­plies to crypto-as­sets, their is­suers and ser­vice pro­viders, and cov­ers a range of ser­vices that...
Law-Now FinTech
12/05/2023
Con­sulta­tion on the EU’s in­ter­im emis­sions re­duc­tion tar­get for 2040
Un­til 24 June 2023 the European Com­mis­sion is con­sult­ing to gath­er views on the EU’s cli­mate tar­get for 2040.Since the Com­mu­nic­a­tion of the European Green Deal in late 2019, there have been a raft of...
Law-Now Energy & Climate Change
10/05/2023
At last: in­valid­ity and re­voc­a­tion ac­tions now avail­able be­fore TM of­fices...
One of the most sig­ni­fic­ant in­nov­a­tions in­tro­duced by the EU Trade Mark Dir­ect­ive 2015/2436 (the so-called trade mark re­form pack­age) was the re­quire­ment for all EU coun­tries to im­ple­ment – where not...
Law-Now Energy & Climate Change
14/04/2023
The im­plic­a­tions of the new Span­ish Law on Se­cur­it­ies Mar­kets and In­vest­ment...
On 17 March 2023 Span­ish Law 6/2023 of 17 March on Se­cur­it­ies Mar­kets and In­vest­ment Ser­vices ("LMVSI") was pub­lished in the BOE (Span­ish Of­fi­cial Gaz­ette). In this re­gard, the LMVSI has been ap­proved...
Law-Now Banking & Finance
04/04/2023
European Com­mis­sion amends Art­icle 102 TFEU guid­ance pa­per and an­nounces...
In 2008, the Com­mis­sion ad­op­ted its Guid­ance on the Com­mis­sion`s en­force­ment pri­or­it­ies in ap­ply­ing Art­icle 82 of the EC Treaty (now Art­icle 102 TFEU) to ab­us­ive ex­clu­sion­ary con­duct by dom­in­ant un­der­tak­ings...
Law-Now Energy & Climate Change
03/04/2023
Spain: New Law on Se­cur­it­ies Mar­kets and In­vest­ment Ser­vices
On 18 March 2023, Law 6/2023 of 17 March on Se­cur­it­ies Mar­kets and In­vest­ment Ser­vices (the "LMVSI", as per its Span­ish ac­ronym) was pub­lished in the Of­fi­cial State Gaz­ette (or "BOE"), re­pla­cing le­gis­la­tion...
Law-Now Banking & Finance
03/04/2023
Rig­or­ous European le­gis­la­tion bring­ing clar­ity on prop­er green com­mu­nic­a­tion
En­vir­on­ment­al aware­ness and sus­tain­ab­il­ity have been sub­jects of in­tense dis­cus­sions since they are of grow­ing im­port­ance to in­di­vidu­als in their daily de­cisions. Be­cause this di­men­sion of eco­nom­ic com­pet­i­tion...
Law-Now Consumer Products
31/03/2023
Spain: New Law on Se­cur­it­ies Mar­kets and In­vest­ment Ser­vices
On 18 March 2023, Law 6/2023 of 17 March on Se­cur­it­ies Mar­kets and In­vest­ment Ser­vices (the "LMVSI", as per its Span­ish ac­ronym) was pub­lished in the Of­fi­cial State Gaz­ette (or "BOE"), re­pla­cing le­gis­la­tion...
Regzone Banking & Finance
30/03/2023
New Law on Se­cur­it­ies Mar­kets and In­vest­ment Ser­vices
Ri­cardo Plasen­cia, Lucía Es­cauriaza & Ad­rián Ara­ci­lOn 18 March 2023, Law 6/2023 of 17 March on Se­cur­it­ies Mar­kets and In­vest­ment Ser­vices (the "LMVSI", as per its Span­ish ac­ronym) was pub­lished in...
Publication
28/03/2023
European Par­lia­ment and Coun­cil ready to start ne­go­ti­ations on EU Data...
In Feb­ru­ary 2022 the European Com­mis­sion presen­ted its pro­pos­al for the EU Data Act, which – if ad­op­ted - will in­tro­duce a far-reach­ing leg­al re­gime on ac­cess to and use of non-per­son­al data in the...
Law-Now Energy & Climate Change
20/03/2023
Out with the old, in with the new? Con­sid­er­a­tions for pat­entees in opt­ing...
So far in this series of blog posts, we began with an art­icle that high­lighted some of the key changes between the cur­rent European sys­tem of pat­ent pro­sec­u­tion and en­force­ment and the new Unit­ary Pat­ent...
Law-Now Unified Patent Court
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