Spain

Miguel is currently Managing Partner of the Real Estate team and CEO of Alantra Corporate Finance and has been awarded in 2013 and 2014 as Best Real Estate Advisor in M&A in Spain by Euromoney.

He began his professional career with AB Asesores, as part of the mergers and acquisitions team, and later worked in the investment banking area at Morgan Stanley, joining Alantra in 2000. Miguel has an extensive track-record in M&A transactions in Spain and cross border, both on the sell and buy-sides, especially in real estate, and also in the industrial and consumer sectors. Miguel has an extensive knowledge of financial institutions and national and international institutional investors in Real Estate, having collaborated, among others with: Värde Partners, Kennedy Wilson, Cerberus, BBVA, Santander, Lonestar, BMN, Ibercaja, Catalunya Banc, Baupost, etc.

He holds a Bachelor degree in Business Administration from CUNEF.

• He started his career in 1997 in AB Asesores where he held the position of director.
• In 1999 he joined UBS Warburg where he was responsible for the execution of Corporate Finance Operations for the Private Banking division.
• In June 2001 he joined Alantra as an Executive Director of the Corporate Finance area. Currently, he is managing partner of Alantra’s M&A area and responsible for the Financial Institutions Group team.
• Oscar has been involved in more than 40 operations, highlighting recently the advice to:
  • G6: Banco Santander, BBVA, Caixabank, Banco Popular, Banco Sabadell & Bankia, on Project Phoenix, which consists mainly in the management of debt in highly leveraged companies but viable
  • FROB on the privatization of Catalunya Banc, successfully acquired by BBVA for €1.187 m
  • Catalunya Banc on the sale of a Credit Portfolio at face value of €6.392 m. through a structured operation where Blackstone invested €3.615 m
  • Bankia on the sale of Bancofar, a bank focused on customers from the pharmaceutical sector with a total assets of c. €1,6bn
  • Bankia on the divestment of its subsidiaries
  • Liberbank on its capital increase amounted to €600m

Joel holds a Degree in Management and Business Administration (UAO) Barcelona and a Master in Business Administration (ESADE Business School) Madrid.

Before joining Alantra in 2014, he worked as a Director at KPMG Corporate Finance, specialized in transaction of non-core assets. Joel was also Senior Manager in the Department of “Transaction Services” in PwC where he participated in more than 100 Corporate Transactions. During the last 6 years, Joel has advised on numerous and very important Platforms, Real Estate and Debt transactions advising, on one side, some of the main sellers in the Spanish market (such as: Banco Santander, BBVA, SAREB, CaixaBank, Banco Sabadell, Bankia, BMN, Banco Popular, Bankinter, Ibercaja, CatalunyaCaixa, Banca Cívica, Cajamar, CAM, Deutsche Bank, GMAC, France Telecom, Vodafone) and, on the other side, some of the main buyers globally (such as: Apollo, Cerberus, Centerbridge, Elliot Advisors, Fortress, Deutsche Bank, Oaktree, Loan Star, AnaCap, Blackstone, ARES Management).

Number of transactions closed by Alantra Corporate Portfolio Advisors since its creation in 2014: 27 successful transactions. Face value: more than 20 (BN€), currently managing processes involving more than 25 (BN€) Face Value in more than 50 Portfolios.

Javier has over 18 years of Corporate & Investment Banking experience in NY, London, Lisbon and Madrid. He is specialized in preparing companies for the Capital Markets, Private Placements and Direct Lending diversification exercise. Javier is a member of the Instituto de Empresa Venture Lab committee since 2012 as well as Chairman of Grupo Monico since 2018.

Félix holds a Degree in Business Studies (Caixanova Business School of Vigo). Before joining Alantra in 2014, he worked as Senior Manager at KPMG Corporate Finance, specialized in transaction of non-core assets. Félix was also Manager in the Department of Transaction Services in PwC where he advised on a wide range of corporate transactions. Apart from his deal background, Félix has an extensive experience in the pre-deal, valuation and due diligence processes associated with corporate divestment, mergers, acquisitions and joint ventures. In the last years Félix has advised to an important number of institutions in their processes of divestment of non-strategic assets.

Juan Venegas is Managing Director of Alantra Spain and responsible for the Iberian Financial Institutions Group team. Prior to joining Alantra Juan served as Director in the Financial Institutions Group team of Rothschild in Madrid for 7 years and previously served as manager in KPMG Spanish Financial Institutions Group team.

Juan has an extensive track-record in M&A and ECM transactions in Spain and cross border, including:

• Liberbank on its €500m capital increase and balance sheet restructuring
• Unicaja on its €687m IPO
• Lone Star on its acquisition of Novo Banco
• Banco Santander on the US$6.6bn voluntary exchange tender offer for Santander Brasil minority interest
• Banco Santander on its acquisition of an 8% stake in Bank of Shanghai
• Bankia on its sell-downs of Iberdrola (€1.5bn and 5% stake) and Mapfre (€979m and 12% stake)
• Banco Sabadell on the sale of its 20% stake in CF BHD

Mr. Venegas holds a degree in Industrial Engineering from the Comillas Pontifical University (ICAI). In addition, Juan is a Founding Partner of Faraday Venture Partners.