LKS Next supports clients in corporate transactions worth more than EUR 269 million in the last year

LKS Next continues to grow its M&A and Corporate Finance activity. Between 2024 and the first months of 2025, it has carried out corporate operations with an aggregate volume of more than 269 million euros. The group also provides advisory services for the financing of R&D&I projects, as well as others related to the audiovisual sector, with operations totalling more than 40 million euros in recent months.

The consulting and technology group LKS Next – the eighth largest consulting group in Spain in terms of turnover – has strengthened its legal and financial consulting and advisory services unit over the last year in the purchase and sale of companies and other financial restructuring services.

During this time, the Mondragon-based firm has coordinated up to twenty Corporate operations managed in its offices in the Basque Country and Madrid for an aggregate amount of more than 269 million euros, an amount that consolidates it as one of the major independent firms in the management of funds earmarked for the corporate financing of companies in the Small and Middle Market.

Between 2024 and the first months of 2025 -since there are operations that are still being executed at present- the Legal and Corporate Finance units of LKS Next have carried out different operations for the sale or merger of companies, financing rounds of companies in ‘startup’ or ‘scaleup’ phase, as well as in already consolidated companies.

It has also collaborated in the financing of R&D projects and the Audiovisual Sector, relying on the different tax regulations. In short, obtaining business financing for the development of their activities, including in some cases financial restructuring. The segments being promoted most by LKS Next are Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A), Restructuring, as well as operations related to Capital Markets consultancy, which represent approximately 41.5% and 32% respectively of the aggregate value of the operations carried out by the consultancy group.

Similarly, the consulting group has been one of the most active agents in Spain in advising on financial structuring operations, both for R&D (with operations that have enabled its clients to obtain financing in this way for an amount of 19.5 million euros), or for financing audiovisual projects linked to cinema (with financing obtained for a further 20.5 million euros). Meanwhile, the financial restructuring activity has allowed operations for a further 11.1 million euros.

Jon Erdozia, head of Corporate Finance at LKS Next, explains: ‘We would like to highlight the confidence our clients have shown in our Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) and Capital Markets operations, both in terms of number, volume and size, especially at a time like the present when many Basque and Spanish companies are still uncertain’.

Among the group’s differential values is the offer of comprehensive advice by coordinating teams of professionals in areas such as Legal, Project Structuring and Corporate Finance. Likewise, the group stands out for having offices both in different locations in the Basque Country and in Madrid. In addition, in the last year the firm has achieved accreditations as a listing sponsor and registered advisor on Euronext and BME Growth, respectively, thanks to the experience of its management team led by Mariano Colmenar. In this regard, LKS Next recently held an important event at the Madrid Stock Exchange with the participation of important public and private entities from the investment world along with companies that showed their experience of having been financed for their growth.

‘LKS Next’s firm commitment to M&A, Restructuring, Project Structuring and Corporate Finance is allowing us to develop markets and therefore teams in the North of Spain and Madrid. Our expectations are for steady growth in this area of accompanying companies in strengthening their financial structures. We aspire to become one of the leading law firms for companies in the Spanish Middle Market in these areas,’ said Martín Recalde, director of LKS Next Legal.