About

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The Spanish Baker McKenzie Tax Practice operates across Barcelona and Madrid and we advise on all areas of Tax. We have over 50 years of experience working for national and multinational companies in Spain as well as in strategic multijurisdictional projects.

Our Tax practice regularly wins work from traditional accounting firms clients owing to the fact that we not only provides tax services traditionally offered by law firms in the transitional tax, wealth management and tax disputes space but we also operate a large standalone Tax Planning, Transfer Pricing and VAT/Indirect tax practices.

We are best known for our work in Transactional Tax Planning, Global Reorganizations, Wealth Management, Tax Litigation, Private Equity and Venture Capital, Indirect taxation and customs duties, Transfer Pricing, Real Estate Taxation, Employee benefits and Ongoing tax advice.

We advise on direct and indirect taxation and customs duties, with emphasis on available options for tax savings; we assist with fiscal year end tax return filings. The department assists in designing and implementing executive and expatriate employees´ compensation and we also advise Spanish, international multinational companies on all their transfer-pricing needs. Our tax litigation practice is very well renowned and has a strong history of winning key cases in courts at local, national and European level.

Chambers Review

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Tax - Spain

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Band 2

What the Team is Known For

Baker McKenzie combines a key global brand with the superb reputations of individual partners in Madrid to attract diverse transactional and contentious tax mandates. The firm advises family offices, institutional investors and management teams on the tax planning of corporate sale processes, regularly assisting with the Spanish aspects of global strategic M&A or restructuring transactions. The team has additional experience in tax audits and transfer pricing. It has a highly regarded indirect tax practice that handles VAT refund applications and advisory mandates linked to changes in Spanish legislation.

Work Highlights

Provided by Baker McKenzie

  • Baker McKenzie assisted Grupo Corporativo Landon with the tax aspects of the EUR900 million sale of its stake in Monbake to CVC Capital Partners.

Strengths

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Notable Practitioners

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Rodrigo Ogea
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Rodrigo Ogea
Head of Tax
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Eminent Practitioners
Eminent practitioner Rodrigo Ogea's expertise includes tax structuring in large and significant transactions across many key economic sectors.

Rodrigo Ogea is very strong technically and always in favour of the customer.

He is the person that helps me to make big decisions as he is focused on providing solutions to our problems and is creative and imaginative.

María Antonia Azpeitia
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María Antonia Azpeitia
1
Band 1
A leader in the indirect tax space, María Antonia Azpeitia is instructed by prominent clients to advise on tax audits and VAT exemption issues as well as regulatory matters. She also acts on tax litigation mandates.

María Antonia Azpeitia has a high commercial knowledge and focuses on solving problems, creatively.

She is a highly qualified and technical professional offering great communication skills.

Antonio Albarrán
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Antonio Albarrán
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Band 2

Antonio Albarrán enters the rankings this year due to strong market support. He mainly assists in complex VAT consequences and transactions.

Antonio Albarrán is an excellent adviser. He is proactive and always understands the situation even if it is difficult to manage.

Ranked Lawyers at
Baker McKenzie

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Spain

Tax

Rodrigo Ogea
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Rodrigo Ogea
Head of Tax
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Eminent Practitioners
Tax: Indirect Tax

María Antonia Azpeitia
1
María Antonia Azpeitia
1
Band 1
Antonio Albarrán
2
Antonio Albarrán
2
Band 2
Tax: Litigation

María Antonia Azpeitia
1
María Antonia Azpeitia
1
Band 1

Members

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Antonio Albarrán

Bruno Domínguez

Head of Department

Jaime Martínez-Íñiguez

Luis Briones

Rodrigo Ogea

Rodrigo Ogea

Head of Department

Clients

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Minor Hotel Group Limited

Naturgy

Abac Capital

Afterpay Limited

Almirall

Legends

Mogambo