Tax

Montserrat is a Partner and Head of Bird & Bird's Tax department in the Madrid office.

She is a lawyer with strong transactional and dispute resolution expertise. With over 30 years' experience within the tax environment, Montserrat has wide-ranging experience providing tax advisory services to Spanish entities and multinational groups, from the financial & insurance industry, energy industry, real estate area, pharma field and others.

By utilising her knowledge of the Spanish market, regulatory framework of some of her clients and maintaining regular contact with regulators and the tax authorities, she has built a very pragmatic practice with a clear understanding of clients' tax requirements and needs.

Assisting private clients to structure their wealth in a tax efficient manner to hold it and further pass it through new family generations or to transfer on-going businesses to new investors is also one of the areas where our department grew significantly along the last years.

She coordinates and leads specialist teams on projects relating to direct and indirect taxation, tax accounting, tax controversy and transfer pricing.

Montserrat writes regularly on tax issues and lectures and leads seminars for organisations including the ICADE, IEB and Chamber of Commerce of Madrid.

Montserrat holds a Bachelor of Law with a Major in Business from the Universidad Comillas in Madrid and took the Centro de Estudios Financieros course on the Spanish Taxation system in 1991. She is a qualified lawyer and member of Spanish Bar.