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Joan Hortalá is a highly experienced practitioner offering expertise in transfer pricing matters and tax arbitration proceedings.
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Partner. He is a specialist in tax law, particularly in international taxation and transfer pricing. Mr. Hortalà advises corporate groups with a strong international profile. He specializes in international taxation and transfer pricing, enabling his clients to be taxed in line with their value chain.
He lectures on international taxation in the bachelor of laws at Universitat Pompeu Fabra (Barcelona) and at Universitat Internacional de Catalunya (Barcelona). He speaks regularly at international conferences in Europe and America. He worked as state finance auditor and held several other positions, including national expert (European Commission), coordinator of the double-taxation treaties area (Directorate-General for Taxation), delegate of the Ministry of the Economy and Finance in the transfer pricing working group of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), chief inspector of the Barcelona tax authorities and member of the Company Tax Division of the Catalonian tax appeal board.
Before joining Cuatrecasas, he was head of Landwell’s international tax practice in Barcelona and directed the Spanish desk at a Big Four in New York. Mr. Hortalà is a state finance auditor on leave of absence.
Mr. Hortalà has published several books on taxation, in addition to over 60 articles in Spanish and foreign journals on international taxation, ecommerce, transfer pricing, and financial assets.
Bachelor of Economics, Universitat de Barcelona, 1988. Postgraduate Degree in Tax and Financial Studies, Fundació Bosch i Gimpera, 1991. Doctor of Economics, Universitat de Barcelona, 1995. Bachelor of Laws, Spanish National Distance Education University, 1999
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Joan Hortalá is a highly experienced practitioner offering expertise in transfer pricing matters and tax arbitration proceedings.
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"Joan Hortalá is very good. He has an ability to pose, explain and solve problems very quickly."
"Joan Hortalá is very good. He has an ability to pose, explain and solve problems very quickly."