I'm setting up a company with partners.

The cheapest moment to resolve a shareholder dispute is before it exists. Capital is allocated, it is settled who decides what, and it is agreed how each of you leaves if one day you want to. First step: A draft shareholders' agreement with the four clauses that really decide: reinforced majorities, drag along and tag along, non-compete and exit.

An investor has come in and sent me their paperwork.

A term sheet is not a formality: it fixes the valuation, the future dilution and, very often, actual control of the company. What is signed there shapes every round that follows. First step: A clause-by-clause reading, translated into numbers: what percentage you keep in each scenario and what you have given away without noticing.

I want to sell my company. Or buy one.

The price is agreed at the start and lost at the end: in the representations and warranties, in the price adjustments, and in whatever does or does not surface in due diligence. First step: A one-page map of the deal: phases, the risks that actually matter, and a realistic timetable to signing.

My partner and I no longer see eye to eye.

Corporate deadlock gets worse on its own. Every month without a decision reduces the value of the company and narrows the exits available to both of you. First step: An honest analysis of your position and of the other side's, and the real routes out: negotiated, statutory or judicial, with their cost and their timescale.

I have capital and want the investment structured properly.

A good investment badly structured stops being one. The legal form of the vehicle, the entry of co-investors and the tax treatment are decided before investing, not after. First step: A review of the proposed structure from both banks of the river: the legal one and the return.

I've received a claim or a lawsuit.

Some deadlines cannot be recovered. The first decision, whether to respond, negotiate or wait, shapes the rest of the proceedings more than any later filing. First step: An assessment of deadlines and options on the first call, and who at the firm or among our consultants should take it on.

Back to the team

Business Consultant

María del Carmen Rodríguez Dacosta

Investment and wealth

She has often sat on the uncomfortable side of the table: the side that decides whether a project deserves capital. That is the eye she brings when the project is yours.

Practice: Investment and wealth
Based in: Alicante
Profile: Investor · Business angel
Works with: Family businesses, founders and investors

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The approach

Maricarmen heads the investment and wealth practice. Her job is not to tell you your project is good, but to show you how it will be read by whoever has to put up the money. Capital structure, entry of financial partners, wealth planning and growth: always with the same question in front of her, whether the return can carry the structure being built on top of it.

Self-taught and an entrepreneur before an adviser, she has built her career from inside transactions, including experience in multinational environments, and from the practice of investing her own capital. Her advice therefore tends to be direct: if the numbers do not work, she will tell you in the first meeting.

“My success is, without a doubt, the success my friends and clients achieve.”

An investor, not only an adviser

She is a business angel and works actively in company financing and impact entrepreneurship. That dual position changes the conversation: she knows what due diligence is really carried out, which clauses cause a round to collapse, and at what point an investor stops reading the deck. When she reviews a transaction, she reviews it as someone about to sign the cheque.

The network, as a working tool

She directs Smart Meeting, an international business club based in Alicante, a forum where business, investment and international expansion meet. For a growing client that means something very concrete: alongside the advice, access to real counterparties (co-investors, industrial partners, market contacts) without having to start from zero.

What she works on

StructureFinancial and strategic planning for the company and for the family wealth behind it.
CapitalFinancing and investor entry: preparing the transaction, its terms and its fit with the growth plan.
GrowthInternationalisation and expansion, with support in finding partners and markets.
WealthReal estate investment and co-investment vehicles, coordinated with the corporate practice.
NetworkIntroductions through Smart Meeting, the international business club she directs.

Track record

PresentVeredum Legal & Investment. Head of the investment and wealth practice.
ExperienceCIO at Diversity Law, Legal & Investments. Head of investments.
DirectionDirector of Smart Meeting, international business club based in Alicante.
InvestmentBusiness angel in company financing and impact entrepreneurship.
EducationUniversity of Vigo.

When to call her

When you are about to raise capital, when you have to decide whether to enter a transaction, when family wealth and the business start getting in each other's way, and when you want a second reading, unvarnished, of a project you are about to join.