The Chartered Institute for Securities & Investment (CISI) has appointed Jesús Mardomingo, managing partner of Dentons’ banking and finance department in Spain, as president of the Institute’s National Advisory Council (NAC) for Spain and Latin America. Made up of prestigious professionals, the NAC supports the members of the professional body in Spanish-speaking countries and directs its activities in the development of professional standards for the financial profession in the region. In addition, it helps the Institute in the expansion of the certifying work in the assigned territory.
Jesús Mardomingo has been since managing partner of the banking and financial department of Dentons in Spain since 2015. He comes from Cuatrecasas, a firm in which he was also a partner for many years.
He has more than 30 years of experience in corporate advice to financial institutions and public administrations on commercial and regulatory issues, as well as in various types of corporate transactions in credit institutions, insurance companies and investment service companies. Mardomingo has worked in practically all relevant aspects of the financial sector, highlighting his special involvement in the restructuring of the Spanish financial sector, collaborating in the creation of the Sareb, and the conversion of savings banks into foundations, or his relationship with the digital transformation of the sector as a lawyer for the first online banks such as Uno-e or Inversis. He is also a great expert in investment funds, his actions being decisive in the elimination ofthe tax toll on these vehicles or advising on the first hedge fund registered in Spain.
Before joining the firm, he worked as a lawyer in the Legal Department of the Banking Corporation of Spain, years later in Argentaria and currently in BBVA.
He is recommended by Chambers Global and Chambers Europe as amongst the best lawyers in the world in the areas of Banking and Finance Law, and Fintech. He is also recognized by legal directories such as IFLR, Expert Guides, Best Lawyers, and Legal 500 for Banking and Finance, Investment Funds, Mercantile, and M&A.
He is a participant in specialized courses and seminars, author of several collective works, and a regular contributor to economic press and technical magazines in which he regularly publishes doctrinal articles related to his specialty. He is a professor and directs the Master’s Degree for Access to the Legal Profession and the Financial Markets Specialization Program at the Institute of Stock Market Studies (IEB, by its acronym in Spanish) while he directs the Institute’s area of sustainability and innovation.
The CISI director of Global Business Development, Kevin Moore Chartered FCSI said:
“The Institute is present in more than 100 countries and recognized in 75 jurisdictions. Each of our NACs is a link between the Institute and the country or region in question: it keeps us in permanent contact with its professionals, with the organizations in which they work. Its members —and, particularly, its president— play a key role. We are pleased to incorporate Jesús as president of the NAC for Spain and Latin America, and convinced that he will carry out valuable work to help us grow in these markets”.
The regional head for Iberia & LatAm of the CISI, Rosa Mateus said: “We are very happy for the enormous opportunity of incorporating Jesús Mardomingo as president of our NAC. His knowledge, his experience, his prestige and his network of contacts will undoubtedly help the Institute continue to grow in the different Latin American countries in terms of certification. And I would also like to highlight his human quality, his values and his kindness, aspects that are also fundamental in any professional”.
In addition to expressing gratitude for the appointment, the new president of the NAC of the CISI for Spain and Latin America, Jesús Mardomingo, has affirmed: “In Latin America and the Caribbean, the certification of skills acquired as a result of experience has been a key factor in policies employment and training for decades, although in the financial field, in a broad sense, and with the arrival of the new economy based on sustainability and digitization, there is still a long way to go”.
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