Andersen

The firm: Andersen in Spain has offices in Madrid, Barcelona, Valencia, Seville and Malaga. The team is made up of more than 350 professionals led by 60 partners responsible of the design, coordination and management of the best fitted teams for each operation.

The firm advises mainly in the legal and tax fields working with an integrated team of vast experience in business law, among others: corporate and M&A, tax, litigation, arbitration, restructuring or public law, in different sectors of business activities. Andersen has wide experience in advising companies in cross-border transactions and their projects abroad with a particular expertise in Cuba –with the Cuban Desk services- or Israel.

Andersen is the Spanish member firm of Andersen Global, an international association of legally separate, independent member firms comprising tax and legal professionals around the world. This association allows the team to provide best-in-class advice in complex transactions to important domestic and international clients in Spain and across the globe in a seamless and consistent manner everywhere.

Areas of practice: Andersen has extensive experience in every field of business law and tax advice, providing their clients comprehensive high-quality legal advice on domestic and international projects.

The corporate and M&A practice provides advice to companies and other legal entities, ranging from their incorporation to all their transactions, specialising in mergers and acquisitions (M&A), restructuring, corporate law, commercial contracting, corporate governance and banking and finance. The banking and finance practice covers made-to-measure design of all types of corporate finance operation, acquisitions, project finance and structured finance, both simple and syndicated.

The dispute resolution team advises on commercial and contractual disputes at all levels and before all institutions, also advising distressed companies in relation to all insolvency issues. The team is also specialised in corporate crime, from tax evasion and fraud to money laundering and corruption and has a strong arbitration practice advising in national and international arbitrations and before various arbitration institutions.

In the employment field, the firm provides advice on complex and technical matters, with a strong focus on employment litigation, terms of employment, corporate transactions and collective matters involving trade unions and works councils.

The tax practice is specialised in local and international advice in tax policies that optimise taxation and structure the business and transactions according with the law and the business strategy of the clients. The advice is provided independently as no audit services are rendered in the firm. Likewise, the firm has wide experience on public law matters with a strong focus on public contracts, acting for public administrations, bidders and successful bidders and also on the implementation of private initiative participation models in public infrastructure development projects, among others.

The firm also has highly specialized departments for the implementation of effective systems to supervise regulatory compliance and crime prevention.

Moreover, the culture and audiovisual team is very experienced in providing comprehensive advice in national and international co-productions and the firm has a team the highly specialized professionals in technology, data and digital business.

The firm has strong expertise advising and co-ordinating international projects where knowledge in several jurisdictions is required. In this circumstances, the different professionals and teams from Andersen work in a variety of cross-border matters and with firms from all over the world, adapting its expertise and services to the specific jurisdiction and necessities.