TONI BARIOS

Partner

Toni Barios is a partner of the Banking&Finance Group of Cases & Lacambra. He leads the Finance practice.

He advices financial institutions and companies in all sorts of financing and debt-restructuring transactions, bilateral and syndicated, national and cross-border, including structured finance, corporate and acquisition finance, project finance (real estate, energy and infrastructures) and in the structuring and granting of guarantees. His practice includes the advice to financial institutions, funds, and other non-traditional lenders in debt investment transactions, in secondary debt trading and NPL portfolios and direct lending investments in the middle market.

He began his career in the corporate and real estate practice of Vialegis Asesores Legales y Tributarios. Before joining Cases & Lacambra, he developed his professional career as in-house counsel at the legal department of Caja de Ahorros y Pensiones de Barcelona (“la Caixa”) where he gathered extensive experience in Capital Markets (ECM y DCM), in both primary and secondary markets and in both own and third-party issues, and later on at the legal department of CaixaBank, S.A. managing the investment banking business legal division.

He has been personally involved in the negotiation of the main public and private financing and debt restructuring transactions of the last 10 years in Spain, and has extensive experience in all sorts of financings (corporate financings, acquisition finance, asset finance, leveraged financings, investment grade, and project finance in energy, infrastructure and real estate sectors both in Spain and abroad (United Kingdom, France, Germany, the Netherlands, United States, Mexico and Canada) and in the secondary debt trading.

Co-Director of the Course on Banking Contracts at the Barcelona Bar Association (ICAB), he is a regular speaker in different conferences, seminars and forums of recognised prestige such as the International Bar Association (IBA) and the European Lawyers’ Union (UAE). He is co-author of the book “Banking and Securities Law”, 2nd Edition (Editorial Colex, May 2012).

PRACTICE AREAS

Banking&Finance
Coporate & M&A
Financial Centers Desk
Latin America Desk

STUDIES

Law Degree
University of Barcelona

Management Development Program
UPF - Barcelona School of Management

Member of the Barcelona Bar Association

Member of the International Bar Association