Real Estate Finance: Origination & lending officer for structured commercial real estate products in Spain, Portugal, Italy and France serving a wide variety of domestic and international clients. Main asset classes financed include office buildings and high street retail in mostly Barcelona, Madrid, Lisbon, Milan and Paris, and, throughout the whole of Spain and occasionally Portugal, shopping centers, hotels, logistics platforms, purpose-built student accommodation and build-to-rent housing. Types of financings offered typically include green field developments, brown-to-green repositionings, sale & leasebacks, forward sales and acquisition finance in bilateral, club deal and syndicated loan formats. Occasionally asked to represent CaixaBank in commercial real estate restructurings, usually related to complex, large ticket special situations.Prior to 2012, origination and lending officer in the Acquisition & Corporate Finance Department serving mostly Spanish blue chips and middle market clients as well as international and domestic investment funds.

Structured Finance, Asset Finance & Client Management:Mostly involved in the structuring of the acquisition of rolling stock and the structuring of financings related to the expansion of Barcelona’s metro system as well as western Catalonia’s irrigation and reservoir systems.

The Chase Manhattan Bank and, following the merger, JP Morgan Chase: After a 15 month formal credit training program in New York and London, performed various roles in the Risk Analysis, Syndicated Loans, Project Finance, Structured Finance, Corporate Finance, Client Management and Private Banking departments, mostly in the Bank’s Madrid and Barcelona offices and occasionally in the bank’s London office.

Primary responsibilities included the management of Scandinavian Clients active in the US and the management of a Collateralized Mortgage Obligations Portfolio.