LLYC, a Spain-based communications and public affairs consulting firm, has hired Francisco Sánchez Rivas with the intention of ramping up its corporate venturing and merger and acquisitions strategy.
Rivas will sit on the the firm’s board of directors while also remaining on the board of multiple other technology and media companies. He has spent 25 years in investment banking, including a spell as CEO of wealth management firm Edmond de Rothchild’s Spain and Portugal-focused investment bank.
Rivas later established boutique middle-market banking firm Zechman Capital, and was also once corporate finance director at accountancy firm Deloitte. LLYC is looking to grow its strategic acquisitions having most recently bought Colombia-based innovation consultancy Adaptative in May this year.
José Antonio Llorente, chairman of LLYC, said: “Francisco joining our board of directors will enable us to draw up an acquisitions investment plan at a time such as this when numerous opportunities exist, both with startups and with more consolidated businesses.”
Photo of Francisco Sánchez Rivas courtesy of Llorente y Cuenca.