Mazars incorporates Luis Porras, former Director of Legal Counsel of Banco Santander
With a trajectory of more than 30 years in the banking sector, Luis Porras joins Mazars as of Counsel to promote the activity of the Firm in the financial sector
February 12, 2024. Mazars, an integrated international firm, has just welcomed Luis Porras, the former Director of Legal Counsel for commercial banking at Banco Santander. Luis Porras joins our firm as Of Counsel to promote the positioning and development of new services in the financial sector.
Luis Porras has more than 30 years of experience in the financial sector with broad knowledge of the legal and commercial banking fields. He has primarily developed his career at Banco Santander as the Director of Legal Advice for commercial banking. He joined the entity in 2016 from Openbank, where he served as the entity's Legal Counsel Director since its creation in 1996. He has also worked at AB Asesores and Banco Herrero. Luis holds a law degree from the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid.
from left to right: Gastón Durand, Partner legal services and Luis Porras, Of Counsel
"The incorporation of Luis Porras reinforces our positioning in the financial sector, where our firm has reference clients both in Spain and Europe. Luis's knowledge and experience will also contribute to consolidating the team, which is composed of more than 150 professionals specialized in the financial sector, and contribute to continuing to provide top-quality advice to the main financial entities," explains Gastón Durand, partner and head of Legal at Mazars in Spain.
In Luis's words, "It is a great opportunity and a source of pride to join a prestigious and quality firm such as Mazars, with deep recognition and trajectory in the financial sector. My experience of almost three decades in the field of retail banking allows me to provide a practical vision of the challenges that the entities are currently facing. On the one hand, the regulatory challenge derived from the EU laws on contracting and, on the other hand, the need to improve the relationship between financial institutions and their clients."
Mazars in Spain has a multidisciplinary team specialized in the financial sector, comprising more than 150 professionals from the audit, consulting, legal, and tax fields, led by Carlos Marcos and Breogán Porta, partners of Mazars. Our unique model of an integrated firm allows us to combine the local and global experience of Mazars' teams to offer our clients customized, practical, and innovative solutions.
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