Alberto Mata Rodríguez
Partner |Head of the Banking & Finance Department,
CMS Spain
Alberto Mata Rodríguez is a Partner of CMS Spain and Head of its Banking and Finance Department – where he advises investors and sponsors as well as corporations and financial entities, both domestic and cross-borders, in all kinds of financing transactions (bilateral and syndicated). Among others, his experience has been focused on corporate, acquisition and leverage finance transactions; project finance (energy and infrastructure); and real estate finance.
Before joining CMS, Alberto was the Head of Legal Department in Spain and Portugal of Deutsche Pfandbriefbank AG, specialist bank for real estate financing and public investment finance. He previously worked as a senior associate of the Banking and Finance Department of Gómez-Acebo & Pombo Abogados.
He has also worked in Washington DC as an extern of the Financial and Fiscal Law Unit of the International Monetary Fund (IMF); collaborated continuously from 2014 to 2020 with the World Bank as a contributor of the Doing Business Report; and he currently acts as member of the Advisory Board of the SPPI Council the International Bar Association.
Alberto has a Bachelor degree in Law and Business Administration from Universidad Carlos III de Madrid and a LL.M. in Securities & Financial Regulation from Georgetown University Law Center.
Mr. Mata Rodríguez has received different awards, such as the IBA Outstanding Young Lawyer of the Year in Recognition of William Reece Jr. Award (2013) and Universidad Carlos III Excellence Award for Alumni (2014). Also, he has been included by Legal 500 in the GC Power List Spain (2018), – which highlights the most influential senior in-house counsels in the Spanish legal market – and was selected by Choiseul Institute as one of the top fifty Economic Leaders for Tomorrow in Spain for years 2018 and 2019.
In addition, Alberto serves as Secretary of the Board of Trustees of UNICEF Madrid Committee (Junta Directiva de Madrid); Vice-President of the Board of Trustees (Patronato) of Fundación HogarSí; member of the Board of Directors of PRIMERO H SOCIAL REIT; member of the Board of Trustees of the International Institute and member of the European Law Alumni Advisory Board of Georgetown Law. He also teaches at IE Law School and Universidad Carlos III de Madrid.