Javier García-Baos

Managing Director
15 years of debt advisory and corporate finance experience
Deep focus on leveraged buyouts, acquisition finance, and corporate debt advisory
Extensive expertise across Spanish banking and private credit markets
Madrid
@alvarezmarsal
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Javier García-Baos is a Managing Director with Alvarez & Marsal Restructuring & Turnaround in Madrid. He leads A&M’s Debt Advisory practice in Spain. Mr. García-Baos brings 15 years of debt advisory and corporate finance experience, with a particular focus on leveraged buyouts, acquisition finance, and corporate debt advisory.

Mr. García-Baos advises private equity sponsors, corporates, entrepreneurs, and family-owned businesses on acquisition financings, refinancings, recapitalizations, growth financing, and capital structure optimization. He has extensive experience across the Spanish banking and private credit markets, including senior bank facilities, direct lending, unitranche financing, private placements, asset-backed facilities, and other structured financing solutions.

Mr. García-Baos’s notable transactions include: advising on the financing of the management buyout of a leading Spanish wealth management firm through a hybrid capital structure provided by a credit fund; advising the listed Spanish media group Vocento on its new syndicated loan; advising Abac Capital on the financing of Iberfrasa’s acquisition of Incasa through a €130 million Term Loan A and Term Loan B structure provided by international credit funds and Spanish banks; and advising AS Equity Partners on the financing of its acquisition of Servinform through €90 million of senior bank facilities provided by a broad syndicate of Spanish banks.

Prior to joining A&M, Mr. García-Baos was an Executive Director with Kenta Capital, where he helped build the firm’s Debt Advisory franchise and led private equity and midmarket financing transactions. Previously, he helped establish and grow the Debt Advisory practices at PwC and Grant Thornton. He began his career with J.P. Morgan in Switzerland.

Mr. García-Baos earned bachelor’s degrees with honors in business administration and law from CUNEF University in Spain. He also completed an academic exchange at Ajou University in South Korea. Mr. García-Baos is a lecturer at the International University of La Rioja (UNIR), where he teaches leveraged finance at master’s level. He is fluent in Spanish and English.

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