Juan Garicano
Partner Corporate & Finance
Languages
English, German, Spanish
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Chambers Europe 2022"He is very knowledgeable"
Juan is an experienced international tax lawyer who helps Spanish and multinational clients develop sophisticated tax strategies for international operations and transactions, being able to understand client objectives and taking into account the legal, commercial and accounting implications involved in each project.
Juan focuses his practice on tax planning for cross-border transactions, assisting global and Spanish groups on their inbound and outbound operations, having structured transactions worth more than €55 billion along his career. In particular, he is an expert structuring investments in Latin America, having acted for European, US, Asian and Multilatino groups in most of the region, such as Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Mexico, Panamá, Peru or Uruguay allowing Juan to accumulate a wide knowledge of their accounting and tax systems.
Juan also has a long track record assisting private clients in their M&A, corporate reorganizations, wealth tax planning and acting on their behalf before the Spanish tax Administration and the Spanish Courts. Juan is a lecturer in International Taxation at the Master's Degree in International and European Business Law from Universidad Pontificia Comillas and regularly participates in round tables and seminars (FIDE, ESADE and Georgetown Club of Spain). Juan speaks Spanish, English and has a working knowledge of German.
Legal 500 EMEA 2023Juan always attends to you and solves any problem or request quickly and to the highest standard
Representative experience
Advising EnfraGen in a debt refinancing for a total of US$1.8 billion.
Advising the Latin American food and coffee conglomerate, BIA Foods Group, in the financing and acquisition of 51% in equity of the leading Ecuadorian coffee producer Solubles Instantaneos C.A.
Credentials
- LL.M. in International Tax, Georgetown University, 2004
- Master in Tax Law, ESADE Business School, 2004
- Law Degree, University of Zaragoza, 2003
- Barcelona
- Barcelona Bar Association
- Georgetown Club of Spain
- ESADE Alumni
- Asociación Española de Derecho Financiero (AEDF)