Santander UK

Santander UK provides a range of banking products and services to personal, business, and corporate customers in the United Kingdom. It operates through Retail Banking, Corporate & Commercial Banking, and Corporate & Investment Banking segments, offering current accounts, savings bonds, mortgages, loans, credit cards, insurance, investments, treasury market services, trade finance, and asset finance. The company serves customers through branches, ATMs, telephony, digital channels, and intermediaries.

Somnath Basu

Managing Director and Head, Strategy

Helen Bierton

Director of products, Santander Business

Dan Houman

Relationship Director

Sarah Laverty

Director of Finance

Itziar Letamendi

Managing Director and Head of Global Debt Financing in Continental Europe

David Muse

Director, Growth Capital and Structured Finance

Angel Santodomingo

CFO

Chris Thomas

Director of Structured Finance and Financial Sponsors

Past deals in Spain

Playtomic

Debt Financing in 2025
Playtomic is an online platform facilitating court bookings for racket sport enthusiasts worldwide. It connects players based on skill levels, fostering a social sports community while helping clubs optimize their facilities.

Tresmares Capital

Acquisition in 2025
Tresmares Capital is a Madrid-based growth equity firm founded in 2020 that operates as a private capital platform focused on Spanish small and medium-sized enterprises with high growth potential. The firm directly invests in SMEs in Spain, providing a mix of private equity, custom-made private debt, and traditional debt to support expansion, working capital, and strategic initiatives. By taking an active approach, Tresmares Capital targets companies with scalable potential and aims to align financing with long-term value creation.

Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy

Debt Financing in 2024
Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy is a leading global company in the renewable energy sector, specializing in the development, manufacturing, installation, and maintenance of wind turbines. Founded in 1976 and headquartered in Zamudio, Spain, the company is committed to driving the transition towards a sustainable world by providing innovative wind power solutions. Siemens Gamesa offers tailored wind turbine designs and multi-brand services, which include advanced analytics and offshore logistics, enabling efficient diagnosis and remote issue resolution. With a strong focus on customer needs and sustainability, Siemens Gamesa aims to play a pivotal role in the advancement of renewable energy technologies.

El Corte Ingles

Debt Financing in 2024
El Corte Inglés is a prominent retail department store group based in Madrid, Spain, with over 80 years of history. The company has evolved from a traditional retailer into a multifaceted ecosystem that embraces an omnichannel model, focusing on digitalization, diversification, and sustainability. El Corte Inglés provides a wide range of products, including apparel, shoes, and accessories for women, men, and children, as well as household items such as crockery and kitchen utensils. The company emphasizes quality, expertise, curated selections, and innovation, all aimed at enhancing the customer experience and making daily life easier for consumers.

TagEnergy

Debt Financing in 2024
TagEnergy is a clean energy enterprise for a new cycle in the renewable energy industry. It was formed in 2019 to accelerate the energy transition by developing and investing in competitive and clean power stations in order to compete directly and actively on the energy markets. Renewables have now become the main source of energy able to provide both social responsibility and price efficiency, and we are delivering this in the countries where we have established our activity. ​TagEnergy is operated by a highly-experienced team of manager-shareholders. Its operations span the renewables value chain, from development, financing, construction and asset management of wind, solar and storage projects, to commercialisation of its competitive energy. TagEnergy has developed a portfolio of 2.7GW in the UK, Australia, Spain, Portugal and France, and intends to drive the pace of transition through projects that deliver reliable energy affordably, and at scale.

Stark Future

Debt Financing in 2023
Stark Future, founded in 2019 by Anton Wass and Paul Soucy, is a Spanish company with Swedish origins, dedicated to revolutionizing the motorcycle industry through sustainable technologies. Located near Barcelona, the company aims to reduce emissions and pollution by producing high-performance electric motorcycles using eco-friendly materials. The Stark VARG, launched in December 2021, exemplifies this mission; it features an 80-horsepower, near-silent engine and advanced technologies such as a smartphone dashboard and a bike setup app. The development of the VARG involved eight patented innovations and garnered significant attention, achieving €9 million in advance sales within the first 24 hours and generating €50 million in its first month. Within two months of its launch, Stark Future sold over 5,000 motorcycles, positioning itself as a leader in the sustainable mobility sector. The company is also noted for its team, which includes former motocross world champion Sebastien Tortelli as test manager, further emphasizing its commitment to performance and innovation.

FacePhi

Debt Financing in 2020
FacePhi is the leading Spanish company in biometric solutions for identity verification, specialized in facial recognition systems, digital onboarding and safe work environments. Based in Alicante and operating worldwide, the company has a presence in more than 25 countries, has performed more than 1 trillion authentications, 21 million access programs and has a strong presence in the banking sector. The drive of biometrics to improve customer experience and protect data from citizens and entities is the hallmark of the firm.

Ebury

Acquisition in 2019
Ebury is a financial services company focused on empowering small and medium-sized businesses to engage in international trade. It offers an integrated platform that supports cross-border payments, risk management, and funding, allowing businesses to make and receive payments in over 100 foreign currencies. Ebury provides competitive exchange rates, facilitates the use of emerging-market currencies, and offers solutions for hedging currency risk, thereby enabling companies to manage their financial transactions more effectively. The company also provides white-label products through partnerships with brokers and accountants. With over 170 employees across offices in London, Madrid, and Amsterdam, Ebury serves more than 3,000 mid-sized clients and is regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority.

Ezentis

Debt Financing in 2018
Ezentis is a network services provider that primarily serves communications and energy sectors. The company specializes in industrial consultancy, focusing on the planning, design, engineering, implementation, management, and maintenance of distribution networks for telecommunications, electricity, water, gas, oil, and mining. Additionally, Ezentis offers services such as fleet management, anti-theft solutions for vehicles, geographic information systems, and cloud services. With a significant operational presence in countries including Mexico, Jamaica, Panama, Peru, Chile, Haiti, Trinidad and Tobago, Colombia, Brazil, Spain, and Argentina, Ezentis generates a substantial portion of its revenue from Brazil, while also engaging in the construction, repair, and maintenance of civil and hydraulic works, as well as water supply and treatment systems.

Soltec Trackers

Debt Financing in 2018
Soltec, the Third Largest Tracker Supplier Worldwide in 2017, manufactures and supplies cost-effective horizontal single-axis solar trackers and related services. Soltec enjoys top-tier customers repeating business thanks to their history in solar tracking and to their amazing team dedicated to customer experience and innovation. Highly dedicated to innovative research and product enhancement to offer the industry’s premier technology, the company reached annual shipments of 1,097 GW worldwide. Its facilities are in Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Chile, China, Denmark, India, Israel, Italy, Mexico, Peru, Spain and the United States. Soltec enjoys repeating customers thanks to its high-tolerance installation and reliability to meet project criteria of schedule, cost and quality.

Expedeon

Venture Round in 2014
Expedeon Ltd. specializes in developing and marketing innovative solutions for protein-based research and production, catering to the needs of protein researchers across various applications. Established in 2003 and based in Harston, United Kingdom, the company offers a range of products, including InstantBlue, a ready-to-use protein gel stain, and BradfordUltra, which detects total protein in challenging environments. Its portfolio encompasses polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis equipment, protein protection and refolding kits, purification resins, and enzymes. Expedeon also provides custom services and off-the-shelf products, supporting workflows in life sciences and diagnostics, such as liquid biopsy and immunoassay development. Known for its commitment to quality, all products undergo stringent quality control testing to ensure reliability and ease of use, ultimately saving researchers time and costs. Expedeon operates as a subsidiary of Abcam plc and is fully owned by SYGNIS AG, with laboratory and commercial facilities located in the UK, USA, Singapore, Germany, and Spain, allowing for rapid global delivery of products.

El Corte Ingles

Acquisition in 2013
El Corte Inglés is a prominent retail department store group based in Madrid, Spain, with over 80 years of history. The company has evolved from a traditional retailer into a multifaceted ecosystem that embraces an omnichannel model, focusing on digitalization, diversification, and sustainability. El Corte Inglés provides a wide range of products, including apparel, shoes, and accessories for women, men, and children, as well as household items such as crockery and kitchen utensils. The company emphasizes quality, expertise, curated selections, and innovation, all aimed at enhancing the customer experience and making daily life easier for consumers.

Patagon.com

Acquisition in 2000
Patagon.com, based in Miami, is an online financial services platform that caters to the Americas. The company operates a comprehensive financial web portal, offering a range of financial news, products, and services to its users. In a significant expansion of its capabilities, Patagon.com acquired Open Bank, the largest online bank in Spain, which is a subsidiary of the BSCH banking group. This acquisition enhances Patagon.com's position in the financial services sector, allowing it to better serve its clientele with a broader array of banking and financial solutions.
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