Ignacio Buil

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Ignacio Buil Ignacio Buil
Specialist in financing and refinancing transactions; advising companies, financial institutions, and investment and private equity funds.

Ignacio Buil is an expert in financing and debt-restructuring transactions (in and out of court) and in negotiating financing and refinancing agreements involving a wide range of capital structures, including LBO refinancing; and project, real estate and corporate finance. He represents borrowers and lenders, and advises financial institutions, hedge funds and private equity funds on financing and refinancing transactions, and on distressed investment strategies (including loan-to-own and direct lending).

Ignacio worked for 10 years at the Cuatrecasas London office—during the last four years he was managing partner. He currently coordinates the firm’s Restructuring, Insolvency and Special Situations Practice from the Madrid office.

Previously, he worked as an associate lawyer at the New York office of a leading US law firm. He is a member of the Madrid Bar Association (2005) and the New York State Bar (2009).

He has a doctorate in law from Universidad Complutense de Madrid; he received summa cum laude honors by unanimous decision and a special distinction from the university's law faculty for his thesis “Relative contractual subordination and preventive restructuring frameworks.”

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  • Doctor of Laws
    Thesis: “Relative contractual subordination and preventive restructuring frameworks” (summa cum laude honors by unanimous decision and special distinction)
    Universidad Complutense de Madrid, 2021

    Master of Laws in Corporation Law (Fundación Caja Madrid scholarship)
    New York University School of Law, USA, 2008

    Bachelor of Laws
    Universitat de Barcelona, 2005

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