Santander

Linklaters and RPC have snapped up roles on Banco Santander's £350 million acquisition of a majority stake in U.K. fintech company Ebury.

Ebury specialises in trade and foreign exchange services for small and medium-sized companies. As part of the deal, Ebury will use £70 million of the new equity from the transaction to enter new markets in Latin America and Asia, Santander said in a statement.

Linklaters is advising Santander on the transaction, with Madrid-based partner Victor Manchado and London partner Dan Schuster-Woldan leading the team. Linklaters is one of Santander's six U.K. legal panel advisers.

RPC is advising Ebury.

In September, Allen & Overy took a role for Santander on its issuance of a first-of-its-kind 'end-to-end' blockchain bond, while earlier this year Santander turned to Ashurst on a mandate on attracting businesses to switch commercial accounts from rival RBS.

Linklaters was one of four firms to have founded a new data automation consortium aimed at addressing legal inefficiencies in financial market transactions last month, alongside Allen & Overy, Clifford Chance and Latham & Watkins.