Overview
Our full-service team in Madrid brings together market leading experts offering comprehensive advice on both domestic and cross-border matters, allowing us to support our clients across the globe with interests in Spain.
Our team has particular expertise in Private Capital and Funds and Energy Transition & Infrastructure, aligning with Stephenson Harwood’s international leading practices in these sectors, and have acted on some of the highest value and significant matters in the market.
With decades of experience and in-depth knowledge of the Spanish legal landscape, we are a trusted and strategic adviser to clients on a wide range of contentious and non-contentious work, including:
- Corporate and M&A: advising on some of the market’s most significant and high-value cross-border transactions, mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, restructurings, and corporate finance.
- Dispute Resolution: renowned for advising on complex, “bet the company” corporate and commercial disputes, with expertise in shareholder activism, competition law enforcement and litigation funding. The team are also highly experienced in complex arbitrations with expertise in investment arbitration and sophisticated financial structures.
- Finance: acting for sponsors, lenders and investors on complex project finance structures, acting across the full lifecycle of transactions from structuring through to execution.
- Restructuring and Insolvency: acting for financial institutions, funds, and corporates in market-leading insolvency and restructuring processes.
- Tax: advising on corporate and international tax matters, real estate investments, tax insurance, disputes, private client matters as well as tax inspection.
Our clients are are listed and private companies, institutions and individuals, who choose Stephenson Harwood for our commercial advice and partner led service. By combining deep local knowledge with international expertise, we operate at the highest level in the Spanish market, working alongside our international team to help clients to navigate their most complex disputes, manage complex regulatory environments, mitigate risk, and unlock new business opportunities.