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EY Abogados advises on the development and implementation of business strategies promptly and efficiently, combining local technical knowledge with a global perspective on tax, legislative and administrative matters which translates into an agile response to the most urgent international challenges of its clients. The firm provides an integrated multidisciplinary service based on the deep knowledge of the business, the market and the industry sector in which clients operate to add value by creating effective business models and strategies.

Main areas of practice
M&A and private equity: Driven to provide client-centric solutions, guided by a deep sector focus and a multidisciplinary approach. Extensive experience advising corporations and private equity investors on all types of transactions and cross-border deals.

Banking and finance: Wide range of national and cross-border legal and regulatory solutions to financial industry players across the banking, investment services, insurance, asset management and payment services businesses. Senior multidisciplinary subject matter experts on legal and regulatory complex matters covering regulatory filings, rules of conduct, disciplinary procedures, implementation of Financial Services International Regulations and transaction law advice.

Real estate: Experienced in advising sizeable transactions of large portfolios also in asset management. Regularly retained by some of the largest players in the sector to handle some of the highest-value and highest-profile deals in recent years.

Public law and regulatory: Experienced in advising companies in all regulated sectors. Deep knowledge of public administrations procedures and their control institutions.

Employment: Top executives, contracting, collective negotiations, expatriates, outsourcing, litigation and Social Security issues.

Corporate governance: Integrated solution with a multidisciplinary nature focused on listed and non-listed companies from all economic sectors. Corporate governance matters, Directors’ remuneration, capital markets, corporate social responsibility and sustainability, risk management and regulatory and compliance.

Digital law: Legal angle of the companies’ digitization processes, including legal issues derived from the use of disruptive technologies like IoT, blockchain and AI/algorithms and legal protection of intangible assets as IP and personal and non-personal data. EY’s digital law practice is embedded in one of the greatest technology hubs in Europe.

Competition law: Legal and strategically focused antitrust advice in all sectors and industries. Practical advice for clients to stay competitive whilst complying with competition law. Merger control proceedings, sanctioning proceedings (cartels, abuses of dominant position), state aids, claim for damages and compliance programs.

Litigation: Pretrial conflicts to avoid judicial disputes, judicial proceedings and negotiation in complex civil and commercial disputes, including regulatory and corporate conflicts and bankruptcy procedures.

Legal managed services: Umbrella offering that provides technology-enabled support, including automation for high volume repetitive or event-driven legal work (where permitted by law). LMS offerings are delivered in close collaboration with professionals from across the various service lines and practices.

Transfer pricing: specializes in assisting multinationals in transfer pricing design, complex supply chain solutions, cost contribution agreements, business aligned conversions. APAs and controversy procedures.

International tax and transaction services: assistance to multinationals and industrial players in their cross-border transactions providing comprehensive tax advice, ranging from recurring tax advice to deal advice. Part of this team specialises in assisting on the execution of cross-border transactions, both on inbound and outbound projects. Our professionals work closely with the EY team in our global organization thus being able to provide complete cross-border advice on complex transactions and organizations.

Business tax services: Corporate tax advisory services throughout every stage of the tax life cycle, helping clients in the definition of their tax policies and tax strategies. The team includes a group that specializes in local and environmental taxation and a “Quantitative Services” team focused on the rendering of advice to companies on determining, reporting and managing their tax attributes using quantitative analyses and modeling to help them generate cash saving, focusing on innovation and capital incentives and tax credits.

Private client services: Team focused on compliance and business tax services associated with supporting the ownership, management and preservation of privately-owned businesses and wealth. These include personal and family tax advice, business tax advice, structuring, compliance and reporting, family and business governance, wealth transfer and succession planning, asset protection and family office advisory as well as related support services.

Tax controversy / litigation: One of the biggest teams in the market, with a deep knowledge of the general aspects of tax litigation as well as in specialized sectors of local taxation, EU controversy or energy and environmental taxation. The practice operates in three main technical segments: (i) pre-litigation activity such as settlement procedures, negotiations with Spanish Tax Authorities, (ii) litigation activities before Tax Courts, (iii) requests of rulings to solve technical problems by knowing the position of Spanish Tax Authorities before the implementation of a transaction.

Indirect tax: The team helps companies on addressing issues related to VAT and other indirect taxes, including custom and excise duties, locally and internationally. The team includes specialists in customs duties and special taxes.

Financial tax services: Tailor-made services to all type of financial organizations within the banking, insurance and wealth and asset management business.

Global compliance and reporting: The team has a deep knowledge on addressing key elements of a company’s finance and tax processes for preparing statutory financial and tax filings and outsourcing of services.

Tax technology and transformation: TTT is the architect of the connected intelligent tax function where we deliver tax technology and transformation services designed to improve the operational effectiveness of the client tax function and the efficient delivery of EY tax technical services. We cover a wide range of services, including transformation, enterprise integration, intelligent and process automation, data and analytics as well as governance and risk management

Lawyer Profiles

Photo	Name	Position	Profile
	Mr Iván Azinovic	Head of the Real Estate practice	View Profile
	Mrs Blanca Escribano	Head of Digital Law	View Profile
	Mr Raúl García	Head of Labour and Employment	View Profile
	Mr Simeón García-Nieto	Leading Partner of the M&A practice in Barcelona	View Profile
	Mr Ramón Palacín	Managing Partner and Head of the International Tax and Transfer Pricing practice	View Profile
	Mr Félix Plasencia	Legal Managing Director and Head of the Energy practice at EY Abogados.	View Profile
	Mrs Araceli Sáenz de Navarrete	Leading Partner of the Tax & Law Financial Services practice	View Profile