Andrés Sánchez

Practice Areas

Partner. Specialist in advising on tax issues relating to crossborder transactions in the following four areas: foreign investment in Spain, Spanish investment abroad, restructuring of multinational groups, and projects and infrastructure. In foreign investment in Spain, he handles both private and public M&A. He has also advised Spanish groups on M&A transactions and on setting up abroad. He has advised on restructuring Argentinean, Brazilian, Colombian and Mexican groups into Spanish holding companies, as well as European, US and Asian groups on investing in Latin America.

He has extensive experience in projects, having advised on the high-speed train connection between Spain and France, and led the team advising on tax issues in relation to building the gas pipeline between Spain and Algeria (Medgaz Project).

He also has in-depth knowledge of transfer pricing and ample experience in advising the holders of large estates on tax issues, having handled high-profile cases over tax residence in the Spanish courts.

Career

He lectures in the Master in Legal and Tax Consultancy at the CEF Center for Financial Studies and the IE Business School, and lectures on tax law at Universidad Complutense de Madrid. He frequently speaks at seminars on international tax.

Professional Memberships

Member of the Madrid Bar Association.

Publications

He writes for Spanish and foreign publications and has coordinated the collective work Comentarios a la Ley del Impuesto sobre la Renta de No Residentes (Comments on Non-Resident Income Tax Act ), Aranzadi, 2003.

Personal

Bachelor of Laws (1990) and Bachelor of Economics (1991), Universidad Pontificia de Comillas-ICADE, Madrid.