Smart Moves: Tax Incentives for Expats in Spain and Portugal

Sonia Velasco’s crossborder practice involves advising private clients on their investments including real estate investments, estate planning, family governance and business succession, executive compensation and pension plans. She is well versed in vehicles such as trusts, which do not have a precise counterpart in Spanish law.

She also often advises private equities, venture-capital and strategic investors, and family offices on their investments in startups and scaleups.

Serena Cabrita Neto advises different multinational groups on transactions and operations in the energy, industry and finance sectors. She handles tax litigation, representing large national and international companies in important cases before the tax courts and also advises private clients, working with key national and international clients.

She is acknowledged by the Portuguese Bar Association as a specialist in tax law. She has been an arbitrator for tax at Centro de Arbitragem Administrativa (CAAD) since 2011.

Brígida Galbete was assigned to the Shanghai office until 2014, where she advised on international taxation, divestments and financial transactions.

She is a member of the Cuatrecasas Asian Desk, handling in inbound and outbound investment projects in the main Asian markets, including China, India, Japan, Korea and Singapore, and the Asia-Pacific region, including Australia.

Paula Benéitez advises large business groups with a strong international focus. She advises foreign groups on their investments in Spain and on setting up in Europe and in Latin America, as well as on crossborder M&A transactions. She also advises Spanish business groups on planning and implementing their investments and transactions abroad.

She is an expert in tax and succession planning for large estates with an international focus, and in advising sports people on tax and assisting with the tax planning of big sporting events.

Marta Duarte Silva advises on tax in relation to financial instruments and fiduciary structures.

Before joining Cuatrecasas, she was a tax advisor in an international audit firm.

She is a member of the Portuguese Bar Association.

She is the author and coauthor of several articles and speaks at seminars and conferences.