Laffer Abogados, Madrid Office, Europe

Profile

Provided by Laffer Abogados

Managing Partners: Rodrigo García, Francisco Salinas, Alvaro Reig, Jose Lasa

Number of partners: 12

Number of lawyers: 29

Languages: English, Spanish

Firm Overview:

LAFFER ABOGADOS was established with an international aim, presenting itself as a reference company in the National and International legal market. Its practice extends to all areas of the corporate law, counselling corporations, their shareholders and individuals.

Laffer has three offices in Spain working as a single office and local partners in strategic locations to be there for its clients. Laffer understands the inner workings of clients’ companies and the motivations behind their operations.

Laffer is pleased to offer them a personalised study of clients’ financial and tax situations in order to provide both short-term and long-term advice and offer solutions, ideas and strategies adapted to the client’s needs and goals.

This direct, personalised service allows Laffer to guarantee high quality service and create added value for its clients. That is the key to Laffer’s advising. In the race to quality, there is no finish line, only constant hard work that brings to a lawyer’s greatest reward: the total trust of its clients.

Main Areas of Practice:

National & International Taxation:

The team specialises in comprehensive and continuous tax consulting for individuals, companies and groups of companies, both national and international. The team also offers specific tax consulting in company reorganisation transactions, company acquisitions and in due diligence and project finance; direct and indirect taxation planning and international investments; family-owned companies. Through this work Laffer offers continuous consulting for companies and members of the family group. Other services include restructuring, tax optimisation and tax-inheritance planning; expatriate management and organisation, including the monitoring of their tax duties, either in Spain or abroad; consulting for non-profit entities and within the scope of tax incentives for patronage; consulting on tax administration relationships: management, inspection and collection procedures; comprehensive consulting on sanctioning proceedings regarding taxes and fiscal offenses; complaints and appeals before administrative bodies and Economic- Administrative, Contentious, Constitutional and European Courts.

Contact: Francisco Salinas

Email: [email protected]

Commercial & Corporate:

The team specialises in consulting on the start-up and establishment of a company under any legal form; consulting on the investment or buying-in processes of companies, negotiation and drafting of shareholders’ and trade union agreements. Further work includes: acquisition and transfer of companies up to the satisfactory conclusion of the transaction; any kind of by-laws amendment; corporate restructuring and reorganisation; performance of functions as the company’s secretary and legal advisor; drafting, negotiation and execution of civil and commercial contracts, either national or international.

Contact: Alvaro Reig

Email: [email protected]

Labour:

The team specialises in comprehensive continuous labour consulting for individuals, companies and groups of companies, both national and international; specific labour consulting on company reorgansation transactions, mergers and acquisitions of companies, due diligence and project finance; consulting on the recruitment and remuneration of employees and executives; suspension and termination proceedings for employment contracts and work-hour reduction; design, implementation and interpretation of corporative policies and employee’s codes of conduct. Further consultancy work on labour-procedure includes: legal representation in any kind of proceeding and pre-trial and judicial proceedings in all stages and before all bodies; substantial modification of working conditions; consulting on procedures corresponding to social security. The team also offers comprehensive consulting on labour-related sanctioning procedures and, more specifically, in relation to occupational health and safety management; consulting on collective bargaining procedures, collective conflicts, corporate feasibility plans, employment regulation procedures, pension funds and plans and transfer and displacement proceedings of employees and executives.

Contact: Antonio Bartolomé

Email: [email protected]

Sports & Entertainment:

The team specialises in comprehensive counselling on transfers, both national and international; employment contracts that guarantee greater legal certainty based on applicable national and international regulations. This work includes disputes before ordinary courts, FIFA and international arbitrations; international tax structures for remunerations and image rights that are applicable for each case. Laffer provides legal counselling regarding planned investments by athletes, artists or their agents; legal management of the different personal issues of athletes, artists or their families; drafting and negotiation of sponsorship agreements.

Contact: Rodrigo García

Email: [email protected]

Contact: Jose Lasa

Email: [email protected]

Offices:

MADRID

Serrano 27, 1º dcha.

28001 Madrid (Madrid)

T. +34 912 900 017

BILBAO

Elcano 6, 1º dcha.

48009 Bilbao (Vizcaya)