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Gonzalo Tomé, who brings over 12 years of end-to-end deal-making experience in New York across financial advisory and investment banking, has teamed up with Ignacio Jiménez de Laiglesia, who possesses broad operational and entrepreneurial expertise, to launch Virrey Capital Partners. The two partners have raised the initial capital to search for, acquire, and manage a mid-sized Spanish SME. Their partners include institutional investors: Istria Capital, Alza Capital, Relay Investments, Vonzeo, and INSETA; private investors: Valmaris Private Investors, León Bartolomé, Luis Camilleri, Celium Capital, Jürgen Rilling and Linta Partners; and ex-searchers: Search Fund EU (Till Bossert & Alex Kirn), and Köllective (Chris Sehr, Alex Hansen, Jan Fritz).
Ignacio is a founder and operator with over eight years of experience across M&A advisory, growth strategy, and venture building. Throughout his career, he has built a multidisciplinary foundation by working at top-tier advisory firms (PwC, EY, and Jakala), before spending three years as an entrepreneur building and scaling elsa.care – gaining hands-on experience across product development, go-to-market strategy, and operations. His background combines institutional advisory with founder-led execution, providing a strong foundation for acquiring and scaling a lower mid-market business.
Over the past 12 years, Gonzalo has worked at three highly regarded financial institutions: UBS, the world’s leading wealth management franchise; Santander Investment Banking, a benchmark house for Latin American M&A and ECM; and TD Securities USA, the American arm of Canada’s second-largest investment bank. His progression from ultra-high-net-worth portfolio advisory to multibillion-dollar equity offerings and mid-market private placements across all sectors gives him a well-rounded perspective on transaction sourcing & evaluation, acquisition structuring, and capital structure optimization.
Virrey is targeting a Spanish SME with an EBITDA of €2.5–5M+, operating in resilient sectors with recurring revenues and stable cash flows. The team will prioritize sectors where they have transactional or operational experience, as well as those benefiting from secular growth tailwinds.
