Chairman: Juan Ignacio de Gispert

Managing Partner: Cristina Delgado

Number of partners: 7

Number of lawyers: 20

Languages: Catalonian, English, French, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish

Firm Overview:
With over 70 years’ experience Grupo Gispert is a leading Barcelona based company that provides high added-value legal and economic services. Its customers are modern companies requiring qualified specialists and impeccable service. The firm is discerning, efficient and professional, and provides a service that covers the global needs of its customers.

Main Areas of Practice:
Insolvency, Restructuring & Bankruptcy:
When insolvency is unavoidable, the support of a specialised team should be sought. Today, having a good lawyer is not enough, since the complexity involved in new insolvency processes requires a multi-disciplinary team that can cover both legal and economic aspects. This team should have proven experience in insolvency, a global perspective, the ability to manage companies in crisis and negotiating skills. Prevention, specialisation and a multidisciplinary team are the differentiating factors in Grupo Gispert insolvency services. Their lawyers and economists are regularly designated by the courts as liquidators in insolvency proceedings. Its experience as liquidators in insolvency proceedings and its team, allows the firm to take a global perspective. Grupo Gispert is different because it offers services that cover the various aspects of pre-insolvency and insolvency in relation to legal, financial and mediation needs. These services include: pre-insolvency audit, business restructuring, negotiation and prior labour force adjustment plans (LFAP) processing, negotiation with creditors, processing insolvencies and legal representation and defence of directors.

Corporate:
Grupo Gispert has been a reputed firm specialising in Corporate Law for more than 70 years. It provides a service that goes beyond the classic commercial firms because it offers a consultant’s perspective which covers the legal, economic and taxation aspects of a company. Services include: due diligence, restructuring, business sale and purchase, mergers and divisions, comprehensive legal and tax consultancy, preparing and holding General Meetings and Councils.

Civil:
The reputation of Grupo Gispert as one of the leading civil law firms in Barcelona can be traced back to the 1940s. Nowadays, a modern perspective on civil law needs to be complemented by in-depth knowledge about taxation. This comprehensive perspective is what distinguishes the service offered by the firm, providing guidance on: probate planning, family business protocols, lawsuits, family mediation, negotiation and contracts between companies and individuals

Employment:
Human Resources departments need consultants who are always up-to-date and who offer an agile service with full availability. As well as being available and agile, Grupo Gispert employment law specialists offer excellent technical abilities and proven experience in the following areas: labour force adjustment plans (LFAP) and collective negotiation (with and without creditors’ meetings), employment disputes, comprehensive legal advice for the HR department, top management contracts, mediation, employment audits and risk prevention guidance.

Tax:
Reducing the taxation imposed on a company requires long-term planning and a global perspective. The tax section of Grupo Gispert consists of expert lawyers and economists working in multi-disciplinary teams with extensive experience in the tax-related complexities of a company.
Tax legislation frequently refers to accounting regulations, for this reason the teams include experts in law and finance and accounting specialists.
The tax section of Grupo Gispert specialises in: general taxes, transfer prices, business restructuring, top management contracts, family business protocols, defence against the public authorities, tax disputes and local taxes

Administrative Law & Town Planning:
The firm has extensive experience in expropriation and claims against the public authorities and employs a range of external technical consultants (architects, engineers, qualified experts, etc.), which is essential in this type of claims. It also offers legal guidance in all types of proceedings: both following the administrative route and appearing before Contentious Courts.
The multidisciplinary teams allow appearing before Economic-Administrative Courts in order to deal with taxation issues since the firm work with lawyers and economists with proven experience. Grupo Gispert offers comprehensive guidance on: expropriation, partial plans and town planning, and penalties

Economic & Financial Consultancy:
Grupo Gispert consultancy services are different because they take the economic, financial, accounting, legal and employment aspects of a company into account. In order to be able to do this, Grupo Gispert has an experienced team of economists, MBAs, tax experts and lawyers who advise business people and managers on the strategic and operational decisions made by company directors. Within this sector, Grupo

Gispert specialises in: valuing companies, restructuring, expert reports: economic, accounting and financial, advice on business sale and purchase.

Contact: Mr. Bosco de Gispert
Tel: +34 93 459 40 71
Email: [email protected]

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Juan joined Grupo Gispert in September 2017. He graduated in Law from the University of Barcelona, and he has a broad experience in advising national and international companies. He is specialized in Corporate Law and M&A (acquisition of companies, joint ventures, mergers and restructuring operations), business contracts (sale and purchase, supply of products or services, distribution or agency contracts, franchise, etc.) and Real Estate Law.

Likewise, he is Secretary of the Board of Directors of many companies, providing legal advice and compliance. He is a member of the Barcelona’s Bar Association since 2001.

Academic Background

• Law degree (University of Barcelona).
• Master’s program of International Business Law from the ESADE Business and Law School.
• Postgraduate in Corporate Law from the Barcelona Bar Association.
• Course of accountancy for lawyers at the Abat Oliba University.

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