Full-Service Law Firm in Barcelona and Madrid, Spain

AddVANTE Economists & Lawyers

Avda. Diagonal 482, 1st floor
Barcelona 08006
Spain

+34 93 4158877

+34 93 4155777

www.addvante.com/en

Contact Mr. Oriol Ripoll

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AddVANTE is an internationally oriented professional services firm, with over 20 years experience providing legal and financial counseling in Spain. Our professionals specialize in different areas of Law, Tax, Mergers & Acquisitions, economic and financial consulting. We favor interdisciplinarity as a key principle to increase the value and profitability and to ensure successful development of our clients’ projects.

In AddVANTE we focus in problem-solving with a multilateral approach. Our services adjust to clients’ business reality and their phase in the economic cycle, with the sole purpose of adding maximum value to their decision-making.

AddVANTE is organized by professional areas so as to ensure that lawyers and economists with different profiles and experiences get involved in each of our clients’ matters. We see the accumulation of knowledge of our partners and associates as the firm’s greatest asset.

Two values define the philosophy of our firm: firstly, our interdisciplinary nature, stressing on individual expertise to benefit the collective performance, by way of sharing experiences and knowledge, focused on the client needs. Secondly, our innovative spirit, always mindful of the constant changes in businesses and markets always ready to adapt to new trends and developments, taking risks and innovating procedures.

AddVANTE is the Spanish Member firm of JHI, enabling the firm to draw on the resources of a network of professionals distributed in 55 countries, with a presence in major international capitals. AddVANTE’s membership is JHI enables the firm to offer clients excellent support in handling cross-border transactions in its areas of expertise. We not only give advice on how to face the challenges of globalization, but also provide foreign clients with all the necessary guidance over Spanish regulation on the implementation and development of business in our country.

Year this Office was Established: 1991

Languages: Spanish, English, French, Italian, German, Portuguese, Catalan.

Areas of Law

Additional Areas of Law: Auditing

Areas of Law Description

AddVANTE is organized by professional areas so as to ensure that lawyers and economists with different profiles and experiences get involved in client matters. The firm sees the accumulation of knowledge of its partners and associates as the firm’s greatest asset.

- Restructuring and Bankruptcy

The team design and implement the right strategy to successfully handle insolvency and business restructuring processes, and to effectively manage crisis situations, insolvency proceedings, and the winding-up of businesses.

- Banking and Finance

As banking and finance legal advisors the firm works in several market sectors, in particular renewable energy, and it has been engaged in various projects of financial restructuring and relaunching of real estate companies, a sector hit very hard by the ongoing crisis.

- Energy

With over 15 years’ experience advising companies in the energy sector, particularly on renewable energies and energy efficiency, AddVANTE has built up an expert team in this field. It provides entities in the sector with advice on the contractual, legal, business and regulatory aspects of all types of transactions.

- Commercial

The firm has expertise in commercial and company law. Main services in this area include advising clients on the negotiation and execution of corporate resolutions, on how best to achieve their commercial goals, and defending clients in disputes and the drafting, negotiation and execution of agreements.

- Litigation

The firm has substantial experience in commercial litigation and ADR, with some of its lawyers defending parties in trials, hearings, arbitrations and mediations before courts, including the Supreme Court, and administrative agencies. In complex business disputes, we advise at all stages of the dispute, devising, in each of them, assertive, probability oriented and cost efficient strategies.

- Tax

AddVANTE’s taxation unit provides tax advice in all business areas, covering the entire range of regular company activities. It also provides tax advice on one-off transactions and tax planning services for business entities and with respect to personal and family property.

- Labour

The labour department advises clients on all labour related matters, including employment relationships, hiring, collective agreements and negotiations, labour audits and conflicts of jurisdiction.

- Mergers and Acquisitions

AddVANTE’s M&A unit provides services to companies, venture capital firms and banks in relation to investment, divestment and company restructuring. It is involved at every transaction stage, from the negotiation and conclusion of preliminary agreements to the signing of purchase and sale agreements. In the case of mergers, it assists clients with the corporate resolutions and specific procedures necessary to execute the merger.

Partners

	Mr. Moises Alvarez Lawyer Alternative Dispute Resolution, Appellate Practice, Arbitration, Business and Industry, Business Litigation		Mr. Enric Faura Partner Banking and Finance, Banking Law, Bankruptcy, Business and Industry, Credit and Mortgage
	Mr. David Martínez Chairman Banking and Finance, Banking Law, Bankruptcy, Business and Industry, Business Law		Mr. Antoni Mustera Partner Corporate Taxation, Customs Law, Debtor and Creditor, European Community Law, Family Law
	Mr. Angel Perez Lawyer Administrative Law, Business and Industry, Communication, Corporate Law, Corporate Taxation		Mr. Oriol Ripoll Lawyer Banking and Finance, Banking Law, Bankruptcy, Business and Industry, Business Law
	Mr. Jordi Tamayo Lawyer Administrative Law, Banking and Finance, Bankruptcy, Business and Industry, Commercial Law		Mr. Felix Vilaseca Lawyer Business and Industry, Commercial Law, Construction Law, Contracts, Corporate Law