Vanesa Gomez Pena
Associate - Attorney at Law
Vanesa Gomez, associate, is a member of the Banking & Finance Practice Group in our Luxembourg office. She advises credit institutions, payment institutions and e-money institutions, investment firms, fund managers, crowdfunding platforms, crypto-asset service providers and other financial institutions on regulatory matters.
Vanesa specialises in the laws and regulations applicable to the financial services industry, including authorisation requirements, supervision and prudential rules, rules of conduct, consumer protection or anti-money laundering.
Before joining Loyens & Loeff in 2022, Vanesa worked in the financial regulation departments of two major international law firms in Madrid where she advised on a diverse range of legal matters including the authorisation request for the incorporation of two payment institutions and a management company, for the change in control of credit institutions, payment institutions and management companies; passporting of regulated entities to provide services in other EU member estates, for the provision of services in third countries by investment firms; analysis of fintech business models to identify licensing requirements; updating T&Cs, manuals, policies, procedures and marketing materials to ensure compliance with MiFID II, PSD2, AMLD5, distance marketing or consumer protection laws; and, advising on different inspections conducted by the Bank of Spain, the Spanish Securities Market Commission and the Spanish AML authority, among others.
Work highlights
Memberships
Madrid Bar Association, 2017
Qualifications
Executive Course, Financial Institutions: the new regulatory landscape, IE Law School, 2018
Double masters in legal practice and international business law, Esade Business and Law School, 2016
Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2015
Vanesa Gomez Pena
Associate - Attorney at Law
vanesa.gomez.pena@loyensloeff.com
Luxembourg
Catalan, English, Spanish
Vanesa Gomez, associate, is a member of the Banking & Finance Practice Group in our Luxembourg office. She advises credit institutions, payment institutions and e-money institutions, investment firms, fund managers, crowdfunding platforms, crypto-asset service providers and other financial institutions on regulatory matters.
Vanesa specialises in the laws and regulations applicable to the financial services industry, including authorisation requirements, supervision and prudential rules, rules of conduct, consumer protection or anti-money laundering.
Before joining Loyens & Loeff in 2022, Vanesa worked in the financial regulation departments of two major international law firms in Madrid where she advised on a diverse range of legal matters including the authorisation request for the incorporation of two payment institutions and a management company, for the change in control of credit institutions, payment institutions and management companies; passporting of regulated entities to provide services in other EU member estates, for the provision of services in third countries by investment firms; analysis of fintech business models to identify licensing requirements; updating T&Cs, manuals, policies, procedures and marketing materials to ensure compliance with MiFID II, PSD2, AMLD5, distance marketing or consumer protection laws; and, advising on different inspections conducted by the Bank of Spain, the Spanish Securities Market Commission and the Spanish AML authority, among others.