Our Team

Of Counsel

Rodrigo Olivares-Caminal

Professor of Banking and Finance Law at Queen Mary University of London and international consultant for several multilateral institutions in Washington D.C. and Europe, Central Banks and Sovereign States.

Rodrigo Olivares supports the Financial Law area, and brings his high technical expertise advising creditors and offering his international vision to the Restructuring and Insolvency area of the firm.
He is a senior insolvency expert for the World Bank, bank resolution expert for the European Parliament and consultant for multilateral institutions, and has acted as expert on sovereign debt for the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD).
With more than 20 years of experience, and working from London and Madrid, he has developed projects in five continents, among which stands out the evaluation of the effectiveness of the insolvency laws of the 38 economies where the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development operates. He currently coordinates and represents the Cuban creditors’ committee and a group of Venezuelan creditors in Europe.

    AFFILIATIONS

    • INSOL International, Technical Research Committee
    • LEXIS PSL INSOLVENCY, Member of the Editorial Board
    • FINANCIAL INTERNATIONAL, Member of the Editorial Board
    • INSTITUTE OF INTERNATIONAL FINANCE (Washington DC), Member of the Committee on Sovereign Risk Management
    • BANK OF ENGLAND, Financial Markets Law Committee – Member of the Scoping Group
    • BUSINESS LAW REVIEW (Kluwer), Member of the Editorial Board
    • JOURNAL OF LAW AND ECONOMICS, Member of the Editorial Board

        LANGUAGES

        • Spanish
        • English
        • Portuguese
        • French (Basic)

        CONTACT

        M. rolivares@keplerkarst.com

        TEL. +34 911 095 710

        MOV. +44 7733 066177

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