Werner Jahnel
Werner Jahnel
Attorney at law | LALIVE
JURISDICTION
TOP SPECIALISMS
Estates: Contentious
Estates: Planning
Family and Matrimonial
Office Location
Zurich, Switzerland
Short Biography
Werner Jahnel is a Partner at Swiss law firm LALIVE. He specializes in private wealth, advising private clients, family offices, foundations and trust companies on complex international estate planning and inheritance law matters, succession planning, divorce and family issues. He is certified by the Swiss Bar Association as a Specialist in Inheritance law and is admitted to the bar in Switzerland, Austria and Spain. Having practiced international arbitration for two decades, he also acts as counsel and arbitrator in commercial and private client related arbitration proceedings.
What is your favorite restaurant to take a client or colleague to?
Buech Herrliberg Switzerland
What is the best piece of advice you have ever received?
Advice from my father: When you get up in the morning you should not have the impression to go to work
What was your first job?
Private secretary of my grandfather
What is the book you recommend to everyone?
Any book written by our colleague Philippe Sands
What changes do you expect to see in your practice over the next year?
I expect an increase in contentious estates given the amount of wealth accumulated in the baby boomer generation
Sonia Velasco
Sonia Velasco
lawyer | Cuatrecasas
JURISDICTION
TOP SPECIALISMS
Estates: Planning
Family Office
Tax Advisory
Office Location
Spain
Short Biography
I am a private client partner at the Spanish law firm Cuatrecasas. I advice on cross border tax and estate planning matters and in particular in relocations into Spain. I also advise families in Spain and their family offices.
What is your favorite restaurant to take a client or colleague to?
Molino de Pez, Barcelona
What is the best piece of advice you have ever received?
Keep it simple
What was your first job?
translator
What is the book you recommend to everyone?
The Marriage Portrait, Maggie O'Farrel
What changes do you expect to see in your practice over the next year?
AI will change our profession.
Robin Rathmell
Robin Rathmell
Partner | Kasowitz Benson Torres
JURISDICTION
TOP SPECIALISMS
Dispute Resolution or Arbitration
Reputation and Crisis Management
Trusts: Contentious
Office Location
United States
Short Biography
Robin Rathmell, Co-Chair of Kasowitz Benson Torres LLP’s International Disputes team, is a renowned international litigator representing high-net-worth individuals and institutions in litigation involving allegations of fraud, money laundering and other forms of misconduct. Dual-qualified as an English barrister and U.S. lawyer, Rob formulates offensive and defensive global litigation strategies for international clients, including in relation to civil and criminal asset forfeiture, trusts, commercial and insolvency litigation, INTERPOL, and international sanctions regimes. Rob's engagements always span multiple jurisdictions, legal systems and asset-holding structures. He has acted as counsel in cases involving the world’s key offshore financial centers, as well as Europe, the Middle East, Africa, Asia and the Americas. In addition to his regular interface with U.S. regulatory and intelligence agencies, Rob has extensive experience coordinating legal strategies in matters involving actions brought by non-U.S. authorities, requiring sensitive negotiations with government agencies across multiple jurisdictions.
What is your favorite restaurant to take a client or colleague to?
HaSalon in Tel Aviv
What is the best piece of advice you have ever received?
Follow Mark Twain’s advice: "If you tell the truth, you don’t have to remember anything."
What was your first job?
Gardening
What is the book you recommend to everyone?
The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
What changes do you expect to see in your practice over the next year?
Making progress on sanctions remediation as geopolitical trends shift.
Pedro Fernandes
Pedro Fernandes
Managing Partner | Kinship
JURISDICTION
TOP SPECIALISMS
Estates: Planning
Family Office
Tax Advisory
Office Location
Spain
Short Biography
Pedro is co-founder and Managing Partner of Kinship. Coming from an international law firm, he has 30 years of experience in the world of law, with a special focus on international taxation. He is also specialised in providing legal and tax advice to foreign families and companies that move to Spain to set up residence, work or start a business. His professional career is also characterised by having achieved a recognised position advising and assisting foreign investors entering the Spanish real estate market, with special emphasis on the residential and hotel sectors, as well as in the tax structuring of significant transactions. He has recently been honoured by Legal Week’s Private Client Global Elite 2021 Directory and Thought Leaders’ Who’s Who Private Client 2021. Pedro is fluent in English and Spanish.
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Patricia Garcia
Patricia Garcia
PARTNER | Avantia Asesoramiento Fiscal y Legal
JURISDICTION
TOP SPECIALISMS
Estates: Planning
Real Estate
Tax Advisory
Office Location
Spain
Short Biography
Patricia is the Leading Partner of the International Private Wealth practice at Avantia Asesoramiento Fiscal y Legal (Spain). Patricia has over 30 years of relevant professional experience in the UK and Spain (including PwC and EY, as a partner). Her practice has gained significant recognition, including Chambers Europe, Chambers HNW, Legal Media group and winner of the Boutique Firm of the Year STEP Award. Patricia is an active member of the International Private Wealth community - she is a Committee member of the STEP Cross-Border Estates SIG and member of the Panel of Experts of STEP’s Private Client Awards; she is also a member of the Steering Committee of the International Wealth Advisors Forum, among other.
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Inigo Aguirrezabala
Inigo Aguirrezabala
Partner | Cuatrecasas
JURISDICTION
TOP SPECIALISMS
Estates: Planning
Office Location
Spain
Short Biography
Iñigo Aguirrezabala’s practice, backed by his tax and financial expertise, includes organizing and structuring complex business transactions and real estate assets.He is also an expert in the tax planning of asset financing and debt transactions, and advises on negotiating and implementing contracts, mergers, acquisitions, transfers, shareholdings, takeovers and similar transactions, as well as joint venture agreements. He advises high-net-worth individuals and family groups on planning their estates using a proactive problem-solving approach, and regularly advises family offices on preserving and growing their assets and protecting their legacy for future generations.
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Guadalupe Diaz Sunico
Guadalupe Diaz Sunico
Tax Partner | Gómez-Acebo & Pombo Abogados
JURISDICTION
TOP SPECIALISMS
Estates: Planning
Trusts: Planning
Tax Advisory
Office Location
Spain
Short Biography
Tax partner in the Barcelona office of Gómez-Acebo & Pombo. She has experience in advising private clients, with a particular focus on cross-border issues regarding tax residence and estate planning. In her 20 years of experience, she has advised numerous foreign private clients on their relocation to Spain, as well as on the structuring of their assets and on the review of existing structures, such as trusts, private foundations, etc., in order to organise them efficiently and plan their generational transmission via donations or inheritance.
What is your favorite restaurant to take a client or colleague to?
Gaig
What is the best piece of advice you have ever received?
Keep it simple
What was your first job?
At age 17, helping a 13 year old boy with his school exams
What is the book you recommend to everyone?
Being there (Kozinski), we, lawyers, feel all Chance at times :)
What changes do you expect to see in your practice over the next year?
Tax inspections are becoming more and more aggresive, increasing criminalization of the tax practice. To defend our clients' fundamental rights against these practices may, unfortunately, be a major part of our work.
Florentino Carreño
Florentino Carreño
Partner | Cuatrecasas
JURISDICTION
TOP SPECIALISMS
Estates: Planning
Private Banking
Tax Advisory
Office Location
Spain
Short Biography
Based in Madrid, Florentino is a partner at the Spanish law firm Cuatrecasas, is an expert in cross-border wealth structuring, intergenerational planning, and double taxation treaty application. Focusing on advising individuals, family offices, and international clients, he specializes in succession planning and investments in Spain. He developed his career at the firm’s London office during four years. An academician of The International Academy of Estate and Trust Law, he is currently its past president. He is also an international fellow of the American College of Trust and Estate Counsel. This experience has enabled him to acquire in-depth knowledge of common law wealth structures. He lectures in the Master in European Union Law at Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (UC3M) being a member of the program's academic board and international tax and estate planning- in the masters in tax at UC3M and Universidad de Navarra in Madrid
What is your favorite restaurant to take a client or colleague to?
Filandon restaurant in Madrid
What is the best piece of advice you have ever received?
You board a train at the station not wherever you want.
What was your first job?
Junior Accountant at Arthur Andersen Auditors
What is the book you recommend to everyone?
Don Quijote by Miguel de Cervantes. Its content and teachings remain perfectly applicable nowadays.
What changes do you expect to see in your practice over the next year?
The world is becoming smaller and smaller. International tax planning will continue to grow. The families looking more to personal security, asset protection and services than to taxes. .
Carles Quindós
Carles Quindós
Tax Senior Associate | Cuatrecasas
JURISDICTION
Spain
TOP SPECIALISMS
Estates: Planning
Relocation and Cross-Border Advisory
Tax Advisory
Office Location
Spain
Short Biography
Carles focuses on private client tax planning, including tax optimization, pre and post immigration planning, succession planning (wills, inheritances and donations), and intergenerational transfer in family businesses (shareholders agreements, family protocol and comparable agreements). He also advises on tax matters relating to matrimonial regimes and their termination, and on preparing prenuptial and divorce settlement agreements. As a member of the Sports Law Group, his practice focuses on tax planning for artists, sportspeople and sports entities, including the creation of structures to exercise image rights, contract review, and assistance in proceedings with the tax authorities He lectures in different Bachelor and Master degrees in Tax Law and Sports Law.
What is your favorite restaurant to take a client or colleague to?
In Barcelona, I really like Agreste de Fabio y Roser.
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What is the book you recommend to everyone?
Orwell's 1984.
What changes do you expect to see in your practice over the next year?
People relocating to Spain due to recent changes in the Beckham Law (Spanish inpatriates regime) and tax planning for UHNWI's net wealth due to potential increase in tax rates.
Beatriz Millán
Beatriz Millán
Senior Associate | Cuatrecasas
JURISDICTION
TOP SPECIALISMS
Alternative Investments
Asset Management
Private Banking
Office Location
Spain
Short Biography
Beatriz Millán advises national and international high-net-worth individuals and families on their investments and transactions in Spain, and private clients on their wealth and estate planning, acquisitions and donations. She also advises on private banking and asset management, particularly financial products.
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