Named experts · Practitioner profile
Salvador Ruiz Bachs
A&O Shearman ↗ · Spain, European Union
★ Editor's Watch — MiCA CASP, Token classification, Stablecoin issuance
About Salvador
Salvador Norberto Ruiz Bachs is a Partner at A&O Shearman in Madrid and one of Spain's recognised fintech and digital-finance practitioners. He is an expert in debt capital markets, derivatives, structured finance, and financial regulation, and has advised on some of the first blockchain capital-markets issuances and ongoing crypto-currency business under the CNMV's MiCA regime.
Editor's note
One of Spain's go-to fintech-regulation partners — advised on early Spanish blockchain capital-markets issuances and ranks Band 1 in Chambers Spain Fintech.
Practice fields
Credentials
- Partner, A&O Shearman Madrid — Financial Regulation, Capital Markets
- Chambers Europe and Chambers Global ranked
- Co-presenter, A&O Shearman MiCA webinar series
Jurisdictions
Sources
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