Garrigues is an international law firm with eighteen offices in Spain. The esteemed litigation practice acquires mandates from IBEX 35 companies on complex procedural law. Garrigues is the only law firm in Spain with a human capital services line inclusive of tax governance, M&A, indirect, and private client provision. General representation covers finance and insurance, logistics, media, tourism, and hotels. Partner Eduardo Abad Valdenebro is head of tax for Spain. Fellow partner Carlos Gómez Barrero oversees the indirect department, and Ángel García Ruiz is a renowned litigator. Partner Mario Ortega leads the transfer pricing function.
The firm advised Orange on its merger with MasMovil, which involved corporate reorganisations and cross-border transactions. It also acted for Neolith on its sale to CVC Capital Partners. Benchmarking in the transfer pricing discipline was also completed.
Partner Gonzalo Gallardo retired from the practice in January 2023.
Client feedback
“Garrigues is a Spanish leading law firm.”
“Garrigues has a very strong and high-skilled tax team.”
“Compromise and know how.”
“Garrigues always provides a great advice to us. They analyse the related-party transactions according to the Spanish and OECD regulations and always inform us about the Spanish Tax Authorities criteria, as well as the case law.”
“They are very intuitive and proactive. They provide a high-class service not only technically but also with a very sensible strategic orientation.”
“Proactive, deep technical knowledge and skilled advice, excellent availability and attitude.”
“Deep technical knowledge, probably among the top three VAT experts in Spain, agile and with an exceptional vision of the financial business and great anticipation of what the European Commission and the Spanish Tax Administration may propose in the near future.”
“Extremely professional and committed to the customer's needs.”
“Extensive technical knowledge to be able for tax and legal advising.”
“Simplicity and clarity in legal aspects and its proximity.”
“The work has been done in a very well-organized way, despite the long duration of the process (more than two years) and the big number of documents and info requested by the Spanish Tax Authorities, our Garrigues consultants were very good and we completed everything on time and in a fair way.”
“They have a broad knowledge of taxation and have the expertise to claim against the Tax Administration (AEAT) providing strong arguments.”
“They work very hard for their clients. Their tax knowledge is very high, and we work very close with them, and the work is very fluent.”
“Sound technical knowledge, close understanding of group needs, flexibility in the project management.”
“Insurance sector knowledge, Company knowledge.”
“A team with a lot of experience and very proactive.”
“They are always helping us in optimizing the tax burden and planification of one-off projects.”
“Availability for understanding the business. Fast speed in responses.”
“High level of knowledge and experience in the evaluation of transactions. International vision due to its presence in different countries, which helps us in our operations with the parent company and with investee companies.”
“Very high specialization, which means that it has professionals with a high knowledge of the subject.”
“They help us a lot in finding defence arguments and to well structure the defence file. They managed to make a very good defence file with a very huge various of file and information. They were very autonomous, and they minimized our involvement in the constitution of all the defence files.”
