Business and private wealth law for companies, families and individuals.
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Companies, shareholders, boards of directors and business families.
Buying and selling companies, bringing in investors, shareholder agreements and corporate governance.
The legal life of the company kept up to date: boards, shareholder meetings, corporate books and compliance. Also for subsidiaries of foreign groups.
Investments between Spain and the United States with a lawyer admitted in Madrid and in New York.
Family protocol, governance and generational succession, so that the family and the business sustain each other.
A senior lawyer embedded in your company, without the cost of a legal department of your own. A service provided as a member of C/suite.
Shareholder disputes and commercial and estate disputes, before the courts or in arbitration. Mediation is provided through Alta Mediación.
The tax side of transactions, of the family business, of private wealth and of inheritances, considered from the start.
People and families who want to put their wealth and their succession in order.
Legal order for personal and family wealth: holding companies, investments and real estate.
Wills, inheritances and agreements between heirs. Preparing the distribution beforehand and resolving it well afterwards.
Deciding today who will assist you and who will manage your assets the day you need it.
The tax side of transactions, of the family business, of private wealth and of inheritances, considered from the start.
Shareholder disputes and commercial and estate disputes, before the courts or in arbitration. Mediation is provided through Alta Mediación.
Pablo Gómez-Acebo Calonje is a member of the Madrid Bar and is admitted in New York. The firm supports investments between Spain and the United States, knowing both ways of negotiating.
I know how agreements are built, and why they break.
Pablo Gómez-Acebo CalonjeAbogado in Madrid and Attorney at Law in New York
He started in Washington, at the World Bank Group. He has practiced at international firms and now leads his own firm, with a network of associated lawyers.
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Pablo Gómez-Acebo Calonje is a lawyer and holds a degree in Psychology. Understanding how people decide helps to negotiate better, to foresee where an agreement may break, and to stand by a family in its most delicate decisions.
It is not a separate service. It is how the firm works.
Knowing what matters in each case and saying it clearly, even when it is not what you expect to hear.
First we decide where the client wants to get to. Then we negotiate and draft.
Deals and disputes are decided by people. Understanding them is part of the work.
The protocol is signed, there is a toast and everyone believes something has been settled. Months later the old argument returns. What to do about relapse.
Pablo Gómez-Acebo Calonje
Each sibling calls the adviser to persuade the other. The adviser does not watch the family from outside: he is in the room too, and that changes the work.
Pablo Gómez-Acebo Calonje
Here we are partners, we leave being siblings at home. The phrase sounds sensible and lasts very little. Why family and business cannot be separated.
Pablo Gómez-Acebo Calonje
