Rubio de Casas Abogados (RdC Abogados) is a boutique law
firm founded by Maria Gracia Rubio de Casas. The firm was created with a clear
vocation of providing legal advice to the financial sector, emphasizing value-added
services (legal opinions, project structuring, cross-border services or the
adaptation to the future national and international regulations) with a strong
focus on Fintech companies.
The firm, whose clients include entities based in Spain and
outside the country, advises regulated and unregulated providers of financial
services to Spanish residents, investment firms and credit entities falling
under the scope of the Markets in Financial Instruments Directive II/the
Capital Requirements Directive IV. It is developing strategies to assist
Fintech industry players in establishing modes of co-operation to build up an
industry profile, define standards of conduct for the common protection of
investors and co-operate with regulators and supervisors in defining the modes
of administrative intervention in an area where the only certainty so far is
uncertainty.
Maria Gracia Rubio de Casas specializes on the regulations
applicable to providers of financial services, with a strong focus on fintech
companies.
She is a recognized expert in the regulation of crowdfunding
platforms and other fintech services providers, and frequently advises SMEs
raising capital through those providers.
She joined the Spanish financial markets authority (CNMV) in
1989, and left in 1994 to start a boutique law firm focussing on financial
services regulation, later absorbed by Baker McKenzie in 2001. She has headed
Baker&McKenzie’s Spanish financial services regulatory practice for over 13
years.
She has advised the European Commission, teaches in several
post-graduate programs and has been included as a preeminent expert in her
field by Chambers Europe, Chambers Global and Legal 500.
