Spain

Firm overview

• Tax Law Firm of the Year (Expansión)
• Tax Law Firm of the Year (Leaders League)
• Transfer Pricing Law Firm of the Year (ITR)
• Most Innovative Law Firm of the Year, Financial Times Innovative Lawyers Awards

The tax department generates more than 70% of KPMG Abogados´ turnover and 720 of our almost 955 professionals belong to this department. This large body of professionals means that we have specialists in all the taxes affecting companies and individuals. We provide services to more than 4000 clients, and regularly provide advisory services to the main IBEX-35 companies and high-profile multinational groups.

At KPMG Abogados, our Tax practice offers truly comprehensive coverage across all areas of taxation. Our services span the full range of corporate tax needs, including Tax Controversy and Disputes, Tax Compliance, Corporate and International Taxation, consolidated tax groups, VAT and indirect tax matters, Customs and Excise duties, Real Estate Tax, Financial Sector Taxation, M&A tax structuring, and incentives for innovation (R&D&I), among others.

We take pride in offering highly specialised advice in areas often overlooked by others. A standout example is our R&D&I tax team—pioneers in this space—which combines legal and technical expertise, including a group of 12 professionals with engineering backgrounds. Our Customs and Excise practice is another niche area where we continue to build market-leading capabilities.
KPMG is also at the forefront of Tax Management Services, assisting Boards of Directors in fulfilling their increasing tax oversight obligations.

Our Financial Services Tax team, has become a point of reference in the Spanish financial ecosystem. The team supports top-tier domestic and international financial institutions with daily tax advisory work, M&A transactions in the sector, structured finance solutions, tax planning for equity instruments, and compliance with operational tax and reporting requirements.

The Indirect Tax team, made up of over 70 specialists, is known for its in-depth expertise in complex industries such as real estate, pharmaceuticals, automotive, transport, and the public sector. Our Real Estate Tax practice, in particular, advises a broad spectrum of clients—from leading funds and listed groups to medium and smaller-sized property firms.

Our Deal Advisory – Tax (M&A) group includes more than 45 professionals solely focused on transaction-related services, including tax due diligence, structuring, and modelling. The team plays a central role in many of Spain’s most high-profile deals, as reflected in leading market rankings. Only this 2025, KPMG Abogados has advisedin the Tax field  in 5 of the 10 most relevant deals in Spain (matters are described below), as highlighted in Expansión: https://www.expansion.com/juridico/actualidad-tendencias/2025/05/12/681df7f6e5fdea3f728b45b4.html

On the litigation front, we have a proven track record in representing major clients before Spanish and EU courts. Our professionals have acted in landmark tax disputes, including cases before the European Court of Justice and national high courts. We also serve as advisors to key industry associations across sectors like telecom, banking, and renewables, especially in proceedings involving the European Commission.

KPMG Abogados continues to lead the Spanish Transfer Pricing market, thanks to a high-performing team with a solid foundation in both tax and economics. Operating from both Madrid and Barcelona, our team of around 65 dedicated specialists works under a unified strategy alongside the international and M&A tax practices. Collectively, this group contributes nearly 20% of the firm’s total revenue and continues to show strong growth year over year.

Firm overview

Transfer Pricing Specialists is an independent firm founded in 2010, formed by highly qualified professionals with extensive experience in tax advisory on transfer pricing and related-party transactions.

We provide transfer pricing advisory and documentation services to domestic and multinational groups that require an effective, flexible and highly professional approach in the design, implementation, documentation and defense of their transfer prices.

We provide services to more than one hundred and forty companies and collaborate with over seventy first-class professional firms on a recurring basis, with clients all over the world.

Firm overview

With nearly 4,000 lawyers globally, we are equally fluent in English law, U.S. law and the laws of the world’s most dynamic markets.

This combination creates a new kind of law firm, one built to achieve unparalleled outcomes for our clients on their most complex, multijurisdictional matters – everywhere in the world. A firm that advises at the forefront of the forces changing the current of global business and that is unrivalled in its global strength.

Our lawyers have long enjoyed a reputation for cultivating powerful relationships, thriving on seamless collaboration with each other and with their clients and earning the right to be trusted advisors.

Our clients benefit from the collective experience of teams who work with many of the world’s most influential companies and institutions, and have a history of precedent-setting innovations.

This experience and expertise creates a firm with the power to shape our clients’ fortunes and apply the law in groundbreaking ways – whether through innovative thinking or new products, services and technologies.

Firm overview

Deloitte Abogados y Asesores Tributarios, S.L.U. (Deloitte Legal) represents the Tax and Legal practice of the Firm. With a team of 750 professionals across 13 offices in Spain, we provide a comprehensive range of fully integrated and multidisciplinary tax and legal services. Our approach combines vision and innovation with specialized expert knowledge in a multitude of industries with the aim of helping companies to excel globally. 

With over 44,000 tax professionals across 169 countries, our global expertise allows us to seamlessly collaborate on both domestic and cross-border matters, making sure that our clients receive tailored, high-quality advice wherever they need it.

Our Tax practice in Spain, led by partner Juan Ignacio de Molina, comprises 460 specialists organized into three key areas: Transfer Pricing, M&A Tax and Business Tax. Within the Business Tax area, we have specialized team in International Tax, Global Employer Services, Gi3 (Global Investment and Innovation Incentives), Indirect Tax, Innovation, and Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) specialists.
We take an end-to-end approach, providing support throughout the entire lifecycle of tax solutions—from strategy and design to implementation and operation. Our services include advanced tax technology solutions to optimize tax processes, governance, and risk management, ensuring efficiency and compliance for our clients.

Our structure combines technical specialization with a sector-focused approach, enabling us to develop deep industry knowledge. This model fosters continuous interaction and knowledge-sharing with professionals across Deloitte’s business lines in several industries such as Energy, Financial Services & Banking, Infrastructure, Real Estate, and TMT (Technology, Media & Telecommunications).
Our commitment to excellence, combined with deep industry knowledge and global reach, positions Deloitte Legal Spain as a leader in the Spanish tax advisory landscape as ITR proved with its “Tax Advisory Firm of the Year” several times.