About us

Cañadas Abogados is a recently created law firm formed by experienced senior professionals based in Madrid that can offer a full range of legal and tax services. Long-standing client relationships is one of our key values and the reason for the firm’s success in meeting its clients’ needs for legal and tax services.

With a diverse client base, the firm offers a complete range of business and personal legal and tax services to corporations, financial institutions, entrepreneurs and individuals.

The lawyers at Cañadas Abogados have long-standing experience in working in leading law firms, both international and local, and are able to provide in-depth knowledge of a wide range of industries from financing and investment to real estate, aerospace, logistics, technology and banking among others. The firm is also experienced in complex business litigation.  

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Corporate and Commercial

Cañadas Abogados prides itself in providing sound legal advice and guidance to our clients that is commercially advanced and innovative. Knowing how business works and delivering legal advice that is effective and enforceable is a key point of our practice.

We base the same on the knowledge on existing commercial agreements while providing an innovative perspective, especially in our international practice. Our experience with international clients is focused in accompanying them from the initial steps, setting up or acquiring a business, to delivering the day-to-day assistance.

Our dedicated approach to offer insightful and effective assistance allows us to acquire a profound understanding of the client’s long-term objectives. Our professionals are experienced in delivering legal and tax services to a broad range of clients from large corporations to growing and start-up businesses.

Our corporate and commercial department includes experienced generalists that, even if rare in today’s legal practice, we strongly believe are those that are capable of meeting the client’s needs and that can offer wide experience in both large scale projects involving several jurisdictions as well as down to earth knowledge of the day-to-day problems of any given company.  

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Real Estate

We can confidently state that our team has been a first row witness of the rise and fall of the Spanish real estate market, which has given us a valuable knowledge, based on real experience that allows us to properly asses the risks and problems that may arise in both, a growing and a declining environment.

 

Our professionals have provided legal advice in complex transactions involving the acquisition, disposition, financing, construction and development of all classes of significant properties including all types of office buildings, resorts, shopping centres, industrial buildings and development properties throughout Spain.

 

Our firm has the knowledge and dedication to help our clients achieve the best possible results in any real estate related matter. 

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Litigation and Arbitration

Our professionals carry a strong tradition of excellence in commercial litigation and arbitration. Our team has extensive experience and we have represented clients ranging from large multi-national companies to small businesses. Again, we have worked on both sides of litigation since some of our lawyers have been called upon to sit on arbitration panels and conduct mediations in both local and international arbitration courts.

 

We are well aware that litigation can be disruptive to the activity of our clients. The existence of litigation will divert them from their core business, alter the planned development and result in unwanted costs. Thus, before litigating, we always try explore any available option of dispute resolution and litigate only when necessary believing that this is the best advice our clients can receive.

 

We stand by our clients, understand their problems and see things from their perspective before establishing the litigation strategy and we deliver our services based on years of experience in all level of courts within the Spanish jurisdiction.  

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Insolvency and Restructuring

Our insolvency and restructuring team offers legal services in all aspects related to bankruptcy, restructuring, creditors’ rights and commercial law. Our practice has a special focus on the any issues faced by single investors and financial institutions when involved in any type of specific transactions including one or more distressed entities.  

 

Due to our practical experience working for a broad range of clients facing almost any type of possible insolvency related contingency has made us knowledgeable in virtually all aspects of counseling within distressed transactions. Given our generalist knowledge firm culture, we distinguish ourselves by providing interdisciplinary counsel that can handle virtually any issue that might arise in a corporate distressed situation.

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Taxation

At Cañadas Abogados we are well aware that understanding the complex world of tax law and utilizing that highly specialized knowledge to a client's best advantage is the key point in a proper tax planning be it in a corporate transaction or when dealing with personal taxation. Moreover, we understand that Tax matters are often a critical component during the planning process of legal work and therefore our approach integrates the firm’s experience from all our practice areas.

 

When delivering our advice, our tax consultants aim to both maximize tax benefits where appropriate - and avoid future tax contingencies based on our experience in working with individuals and organizations who are subject to tax laws around the world.

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Employment and Labour

In Spain, labour and employment regulations are very complex, and can trigger significant liability for failing to comply with applicable law. Moreover, employment related litigation differs substantially from mainstream jurisdictions what can be challenging when advising foreign investment. Our labour and employment advisers can help you in this complicated task since they handle a complete range of sophisticated litigation and counseling work, as well as labor relations and collective bargaining matters.

 

We have longstanding experience in advising our clients and their human resources departments on a full range of labour related matters that include practical day-to-day guidance on hiring, establishing employee relations, determining employment standard and planning and executing employment terminations. Furthermore, we also consider as a key point to establish preventative measures and properly execute any decisive action, in order to mitigate employment risk and disputes.

Aerospace industry

Our expertise in the aerospace industry includes providing advice and preparing relevant contract documentation for the construction, purchase, launch and commercialization of both, civil and military communication satellites.

We have great depth of experience advising satellite providers and operators as well as in government contracting, joint ventures, partnership structures for the operating, manufacturing and commercialization of communication satellites.

To that respect, at Cañadas Abogados we understand the complex nature of all matters involved in the aerospace industry as we have frequently worked with local and foreign aerospace companies and/or entities. Our practice areas include but is not limited to, litigation, corporate, contracts as well as joint ventures, mergers and acquisitions within the aerospace industry.


contact us


C/ Espronceda 39, 3º  
28003, Madrid
Spain


E: info@canadasabogados.com
T: +34 91
F: +34 91