Mr Juan Garicano > Hogan Lovells International LLP > Madrid, Spain > Lawyer Profile

Hogan Lovells International LLP
Paseo de la Castellana 77
Planta 16
28046 Madrid
Spain

Work Department

Tax

Position

Juan is an experienced international tax lawyer who helps Spanish and multinational clients develop sophisticated tax strategies for international operations and transactions, being able to understand client objectives and taking into account the legal, commercial and accounting implications involved in each project.

Career

Juan focuses his practice on tax planning for cross-border transactions, assisting global and Spanish groups on their inbound and outbound operations, having structured transactions worth more than €55 billion along his career. In particular, he is an expert structuring investments in Latin America, having acted for European, US, Asian and Multilatino groups in most of the region, such as Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Mexico, Panamá, Peru or Uruguay allowing Juan to accumulate a wide knowledge of their accounting and tax systems.

Juan also has a long track record assisting private clients in their M&A, corporate reorganizations, wealth tax planning and acting on their behalf before the Spanish tax Administration and the Spanish Courts.

Languages

Spanish; English; German

Memberships

Juan is a lecturer in International Taxation at the Master’s Degree in International and European Business Law from Universidad Pontificia Comillas and regularly participates in round tables and seminars (FIDE, ESADE and Georgetown Club of Spain)

Lawyer Rankings

Spain > Tax

Praised for its ‘excellent tax knowledge and proactivity in regulatory changes’, Hogan Lovells International LLP routinely advises on tax issues related to the structuring of asset financing schemes, M&A, real estate investments, and insurance products. The team is also equipped to assist with tax planning matters, especially on an international scale, covering EU, US, and Latin American jurisdictions. Clients praise this expertise, noting that ‘the firm has a worldwide extension that allows it to solve any problem with implications in the most varied jurisdictions and global markets’. The team is led by Miguel Ángel Sánchez, a key contact for both corporate and private clients in tax planning matters and in the defence of their interests before the Spanish tax administration and courts. Javier Gazulla focuses on corporate tax planning and transactional tax matters; Juan Garicano has a strong track record of acting for private clients, as well as global and domestic corporations in their inbound and outbound investments; counsel Patricia Sánchez has particular expertise in the design, negotiation, and implementation of structures for the financing of vessels, films, and research and development projects; while Alejandro Moscoso del Prado concentrates on corporate group restructurings and cross-border transactions.