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Javier de Rojas is a partner in the tax practice area.

He is a member of the team specialized in advising on transactions relating to private equity, venture capital, M&A, group restructurings and sales and purchases of companies and businesses. He has participated in numerous processes involving the acquisition of companies and financial asset portfolios, advising on all aspects of the financial/tax implications stemming from the structures arranged to carry out such investments, and performing reviews of companies to analyze and assess their situation from a tax compliance standpoint (due diligence processes). He has also participated in multiple Spanish and multinational group reorganization processes and has provided tax advice on company refinancing arrangements, analyzing them from the standpoint of the financial/tax implications they raise. As a result of most of the investment processes he has participated in, he has also acted as the tax adviser to the companies or groups in which such investments are made. Accordingly, he is responsible for providing ongoing and general tax advice, in the different areas, to companies that operate in a wide range of industries (infrastructure and manufacturing, health sciences, hospitality and restaurant business, distribution, etc.).

He also advises on transactions performed by the financial industry, for credit institutions and investment services firms, bringing extensive experience in, and knowledge of, the operations of such entities and the products and services they sell. In this area, he has a wealth of experience in the field of tax equity transactions relating to various types of assets and activities.

He is a member of several professional associations and organizations linked to the private equity industry (Instituto de Capital Riesgo, ASCRI, World Services Group, etc.), serving as the representative of Garrigues' tax department at some of them.

He is a lecturer on direct taxation in the Master's Degree for Access to the Legal Profession (taxation specialization) at Universidad Pontificia de Comillas de Madrid (from 2017 onward). He is also a lecturer in the Master's in International Taxation at Centro de Estudios Garrigues (from 2015 onward). He has delivered numerous papers on taxation at the Madrid Bar Association (ICAM) as well as at other institutions and organizations.

Javier de Rojas is a member of the Madrid Bar Association.

Education

Degree in Law and in Economics and Business, Universidad Pontificia de Comillas, ICADE E-3, 1997.

Areas of Practice

  • Mergers & Acquisitions
  • Private Equity
  • Tax

Professional Career



Articles

Issues relating to general taxation, sales and purchases of companies and the taxation of financial products.


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