Luis Soto
Europe Guide 2024
Band 5 : Tax
Email address
[email protected]Contact number
+34 91 515 6305Share profile
Band 5
About
Provided by Luis Soto
Practice Areas
Luis is a Partner in the Madrid Tax Group.
He advises on complex transactions such as mergers and acquisitions, asset finance, project finance, debt restructurings, capital markets and tax disputes resolution. He has a good knowledge in international taxation.
Luis’s experience includes a wide range of sectors as energy (renewables) and infrastructure, transport (maritime and aviation) and real estate.
He advises local and international clients, mostly banks, private equity funds and institutional investors, industrial sponsors, as well as shipowners and aircraft leasing companies.
Career
According to the prestigious Chambers & Partner directory, Luis is “very responsive” and “able to offer very practical solutions to any issues that arise” working “with rigour and depth”.
Chambers Review
Europe
Luis Soto of Watson Farley & Williams specialises in the tax-efficient structuring of vessel financings as well as investments and M&A transactions in the energy sector. He has additional expertise in sector-specific claims.
Strengths
Provided by Chambers
"Luis Soto provides advice on tax matters in a very clear way."
"He is very calm and rational."
"Luis Soto provides advice on tax matters in a very clear way."
"He is very calm and rational."
Articles, highlights and press releases
1 item provided by Watson Farley & Williams
WFW advises Octopus Renewables on 175 MW Spanish greenfield PV acquisition
WFW carried out the due diligence and the drafting and negotiation of the share purchase agreement executed within the framework of the deal.
WFW advises Octopus Renewables on 175 MW Spanish greenfield PV acquisition
WFW carried out the due diligence and the drafting and negotiation of the share purchase agreement executed within the framework of the deal.