What Spanish M&A bankers need more than anything is a good scrap.
That is the image Javier Salaverri, co-head of Iberia at Schroder Salomon Smith Barney (SSSB), uses to describe the activity that practitioners in the region are hoping for â and whatever turns out to be the spark that sets it off. He says: "It's like a fight in a bar. You never know who started it."