OUR PEOPLE

Luis Felipe Castellanos joined European Capital in July 2007 as Managing Director in the Madrid office. Prior to European Capital, Luis Felipe was Managing Director and Head of Leveraged Finance of Spain and Portugal at BNP Paribas in Madrid. At BNP Paribas, he managed LBOs, MBOs, recapitalizations and refinancings, among other types of transactions. While at BNP Paribas, Luis Felipe also held other positions, including Head of Energy, Commodities, Export & Project Finance for Spain and Portugal and Director of the Project Finance & Utilities Group first in Paris and then in New York. He began his career at ACS-Dragados in Madrid, working in the M&A Group. Luis Felipe holds a degree in economics from the Universidad Autónoma in Madrid.

Alonso Torre de Silva joined European Capital in November 2007 as an Investment Director in the Madrid office. Prior to joining European Capital he was a Director in the Leveraged Finance team of Société Générale, where he was responsible for arranging senior and mezzanine transactions in the Spanish market. Alonso started his career at BBVA as a credit analyst in the London office. He holds a degree in business administration from Universidad Complutense de Madrid and an MBA from IESE.