Manuel Pérez Peral

Manuel Pérez Peral is a Senior Vice President, at FTI Consulting. He is a member of the Creditor Advisory practice and is based in Madrid.

Manuel has more than 27 years of experience in Financial Restructuring and workout, having developed his professional career in various roles at Banco de Santander.

Head of Restructuring and Workout - (Recovery & Assets Sales)

• Financial restructuring and debt refinancing of mid-market companies, including debt to equity processes.
• Led negotiations in relation to Project Phoenix – an Asset Management unit sponsored by Spain’s leading financial institutions with the purpose to restructure troubled companies and maximize recovery through debt-to-equity conversions.
• Led various single name and portfolio NPA disposals; responsible for the creation of internal teams and procedures as well as the coordination and negotiation with potential investors.
• Manuel attended internal Risk Committee and/or Executive Committee and executed in excess of €2bn of single name exposure and over €5bn in NPA portfolios.
• Managed relationships with the Servicers (REO and Non-Performing Debt) overseeing judicial processes and the disposal of RE assets from secured NPLs (Aktua; Altamira in Spain, Secorse in México, etc.).

Head of Global Wholesale Corporate Risk - (Risk Division)

• Responsible for managing admission process and risk exposure of more than 300 worldwide big corporate names including those managed by the Global Banking Division. 
• Commercial Regional Manager Eastern Andalucía
• Head of retail operations in the four eastern provinces of Andalucía, Leading more than 150 branches and more than 2.000 employees.
• Managing relationships with major clients including public institutions, corporates and private banking.

Project & Acquisition Finance

• Responsible for an +50 strong team executing transactions globally.
• Directly responsible for > 30 transaction (incl. wind, cogeneration, solar, biomass and biofuels) managing risk authorization process, negotiation of legal agreements and syndication process.
• Notable acquisition finance transactions Acciona acquiring 20% stake in Endesa; Sacyr acquiring 20% stake in Repsol.

Manuel holds a B.Sc., in Economics, from Universidad de Sevilla.