Laura Satrústegui

Partner

Laura is a partner at Oaklins SOCIOS in Spain. She also serves on Oaklins International’s executive committee as vice president of marketing & strategy. Laura advises on domestic and cross-border transactions across a broad range of sectors, focusing on building materials distribution, engineering, food & beverage and hospitality. She also has extensive experience in capital raising. In the building materials sector, Laura has advised corporations such as Sonepar and ElectroStocks on their growth strategy in the Iberian Peninsula, which led to several acquisitions. Most recently she has been involved in the sale of IDP Group, an engineering company, majority-owned by the private equity fund Nazca, to French multinational group Bureau Veritas; the sale of the ingredients company Eurocebollas to Portobello Capital; and the acquisition of a coffee distribution company by Calidad Pascual, one of the leading Spanish companies in the food and beverage sector.

Laura joined the firm in 1997 and became a partner in 2003. Prior to joining Oaklins SOCIOS, she worked in corporate finance at Calyon and Westdeustche Landesbank. Laura has a BA in Business Administration from Babson College, USA, and an MBA from the Instituto de Empresa, Spain.