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About us
Our values
GMQ advantages
Practice areas
Our experience
They have placed their trust in us
Team of professionals
Contact
Excellence
Accessibility
Knowledge
Ambition
High performance
Experience
Specialisation
Excellence
Corporate, M&A, Contracts and Insolvency
Litigation and Arbitration
Tax
Public Law & Regulated Sectors
Labour
Real Estate
M&A
Taxation
Labour
Real Estate
Javier Gallego
Rodrigo Martos
Andrés de la Quadra-Salcedo
José Vida Fernández
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Aboutus
We believe in the agility of a streamlined firm

We are a firm of Spanish lawyers providing highly specialised, multidisciplinary services to businesses, high net worth individuals and
investors.
Our agile team have extensive experience and are highly cohesive, delivering high performance on complex issues, with high added value
that requires maximum involvement of partners and customised solutions.
We specialise in providing consultancy on M&A, restructuring and insolvency, contractual and corporate commercial advice, tax advice,
administrative and labour-related advice to companies, company groups, investors and high net worth individuals as well as the judicial and
extrajudicial resolution of all manner of conflicts and taking on large-scale or highly complex court or arbitration proceedings.
Our firm is the best option for those who are looking to do business with a team that is wholly dedicated to face-to-face, personal leadership
and where the partners are fully involved.

Our Values

Our Values
We practice law while adhering to the values inherent to our profession and we do so based on four solid pillars:
EXCELLENCE ACCESSIBILITY KNOWLEDGE AMBITION

GMQ advantages

GMQ advantages
GMQ lawyers have grown professionally practising in large firms and in the area of major matters, but we believe strongly in the value of small-scale. GMQ opts for an approach to
legal practice working with a small, high performance, dedicated team and with full involvement from the partners in the firm on complex matters with high added value, irrespective
of the amount. Our cohesive, agile, skilled and experienced multidisciplinary team ensures maximum effectiveness and efficiency in complex matters.
These are the advantages of working with us:
HIGH PERFORMANCE
Our philosophy is simple: we provide
maximum effectiveness and efficiency in
our services in order to achieve high
performance in those services for our
clients. To this end, we do not delegate
management and control of the matters.
All matters are managed and controlled
directly by a partner at the firm who will be
fully involved in the case.
EXPERIENCE
Solid and proven experience in
providing comprehensive
advice in transactions,
restructuring, consultancy to
companies and advising on
conflict resolution.
EXPERTISE
Expert advice on large-scale
or highly complex commercial
transactions and procedural
matters.
EXCELLENCE
We insist on avoiding
standardised systems and offer
customised solutions that can
only be achieved by being fully
involved in all related matters.

Practice Areas
We excel in complex cases and we like to provide customised solutions

Our firm provides highly specialised advice:
Practice Areas
M&A
Restructuring and
Insolvency
Corporate
Contracts
Litigation
& Arbitration
Tax
Public Law
and regulated
sectors
Labour

Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A): Due diligence, purchase and sale of shares and assets, private equity transactions (LBOs,
MBOs, etc.), acquisitions of companies and branches of industrial, energy and infrastructure businesses, etc., advice on
antitrust matters.
Restructuring and Insolvencies: Commercial and industrial restructuring, debt refinancing agreements and advice on
insolvency and preliminary insolvency proceedings.
Liability and other issues of interest for directors, board members and executives: Legal obligations and liabilities, incentive
agreements, confidentiality, non-compete agreements, etc.
General commercial advice Corporate, compliance, intragroup restructurings, shareholder agreements, listed companies,
corporate governance, financial institutions, private equity funds, patents and trademarks, etc.
Commercial contracts: Turnkey contracts, operation and maintenance contracts, distribution agreements, licensing
agreements, construction agreements, complex lease agreements, etc.
Family business: Legal advice to family businesses in respect of their internal structure, relationships between partners, and
in matters pertaining to succession by family protocols.
Unfair competition: Advertising law and antitrust law.
Commercial Law
PRACTICE AREAS

We defend our clients' interests in the pre-litigation phase (to try to prevent any legal action being brought)
and before any Spanish judicial body or Spanish or international arbitration court or in institutional or
ad hoc arbitration, in all kind of civil and commercial litigation. Of particular relevance is our experience in
proceedings relating to national and international contracts (claims for breaches and contractual liability),
corporate disputes (liability of directors, challenging corporate resolutions), ownership and other rights in
real estate (declaratory actions or claims regarding ownership), unfair competition, construction and
advertising.
Additionally, our extensive experience in insolvency proceedings together with substantive and procedural
knowledge of insolvency law means we can provide the best pre-insolvency and insolvency advice to our
clients.
PRACTICE AREAS

From general and regular advice for companies and individuals (taxation of companies and
company groups, their shareholders and directors, resident and non-resident, etc.) to those matters
requiring a high degree of specialisation, such as tax planning in M&A transactions, complex real
estate transactions, restructuring of business groups, corporate succession in family
businesses, etc., our experts in tax law seek to ensure greater legal certainty for our clients.
Proper planning of the tax costs of an M&A taxation is essential. Similarly, the best defence of clients'
interests during inspections and administrative and judicial proceedings should be a guarantee of
being provided with highly specialised tax advice.
PRACTICE AREAS
Tax Law

We advise on all branches of administrative law and in particular, we practise in
the following regulated industries: hydrocarbons, transport, health and
telecommunications.
Our Administrative team work under the coordination of M&A specialists in
commercial transactions with a relevant regulatory component.
PRACTICE AREAS
Public Law & Regulated sectors

Our experts have extensive experience in providing consultancy to companies and workers, in
particular to senior management.
Labour-related issues in respect of M&A transactions and corporate restructures, including
outsourcing of resources, are key points for our specialists when providing consultancy.
Redundancy collective schemes and negotiation of collective bargaining agreements are
areas in which our specialists have proven experience.
PRACTICE AREAS
Labour Law

Our Experience

Acquisition of a photovoltaic power station
and negotiation of associated contracts for a
Spanish investor.
Photovoltaic power station
Structuring corporate and contractual
aspects of investment in renewable
energies in Europe by an Asian investor
(initial overall valuation estimated at EUR
15M).
Renewable energies
Sale of an international industrial
group to an Australian private equity
investor for the amount of EUR 11M.
Engineering Sector
Acquisition of majority stake in Spanish
industrial group by Portuguese private equity
investor for an amount of EUR 4.5M.
Acquisition of majority stake
Legal review process ("due diligence") for
the acquisition of Spanish IT services group
(deal value EUR 11M operation).
Due Diligence of services company
Legal review process ("due diligence”) for
the acquisition of a Spanish industrial
group working in the area of high voltage
installations, by a Portuguese private
equity investor.
Due Diligence of industrial group
Ourexperience in M&A
Acquisition of a Spanish based
multinational industrial company for
a German stock listed investor
(deal value operation worth EUR
21M).
Textile Sector
Presence in Spain of Portuguese
multinational group engaged in freight
transport.
Establishment in Spain of transport
business
EXPERIENCE
Due Diligence real estate
Real estate legal review process ("due
diligence") for a Spanish industrial group.
Automotive Sector
Takeover by financial investor an
subsequent sale of automotive
Acquisition of German international group
and sale to listed industrial group.
IT Sector
Legal review process of cleaning production
business for acquisition of a global leader
multinational group factory by investment fund.
Consumer products sector
Advice for a listed German
professional investor in the acquisition
of several subsidiaries of large
multinationals in IT services.

Legal proceedings arising from concealment
and breach of R&W agreed in sale and
purchase agreements of companies (SPA)
concluded between foreign multinationals (
approx. 4 M EUR ).
Non-performance of R&W agreed
in SPA
Legal proceedings for breach of contract
and claim of ownership related to multiple
wind farms on behalf of a European energy
multinational (approx. EUR 84M).
Non-compliance and ownership
of wind farms
Legal dispute concerning unfair
competition between the two largest
juice distribution companies in Spain
(confidential amount).
Unfair competition
Proceedings for insolvency of real estate
companies, industrial companies and
companies in the energy sector,
(representing the insolvent party or
creditors).
Insolvency proceedings Breach of maritime transport
contract
Pre-litigation consultancy and legal
proceedings relating to leasing premises in
shopping centres.
Lease of premises in shopping
centres
Ourexpertise in Litigation and
Arbitration
CIMA arbitration proceedings
regarding the alleged breach of
contract of a multinational in the
energy sector (approx. EUR 2M).
Arbitration on non-performance
of contract
Court proceedings relating to the exercise of
recovery of real property and compensation
for eviction from plots on land for real estate
Strategic sector
EXPERIENCE
Legal proceedings for breach of contract of
maritime carriage against company and
bringing action for damages against the
director of the company (EUR 4M).

EXPERIENCE
Ourexpertise in labour
Collective restructuring agreement
Negotiation and agreement with all major
Unions of a collective redundancy scheme
plan affecting over 160 employees combining
definitive and temporary measures.
Contracts with General Managers
Negotiation and agreement of General
Manager contract of IT services multinational
Group based in Spain, including bonus
package. Negotiation and agreement of new
working conditions of Managers in MBO with
new bonus package linked to the exit of the
investor. Claim regarding retribution package
of General Manager in an event of unfair
dismissal. Etc
Labour Due Diligence works
Labour acquisition Due Diligence works for
companies in the IT, Engineering, Services,
Transport, Industrial, etc. sectors
Labour structuring of Transport
business in Spain
Advice on the more suitable employment
structure for a transport business in Spain,
with over 50 direct employees and with
subcontracted partners.
Labour litigation regarding joint
claim of 147 employees
Complex litigation regarding the claim for
nullity of an M&A transaction based on a
pretended fraud against the employees’
rights. Claim fully dismissed in the interest of
the Client of the Firm.

Tax advice in the planning and
execution of M&A transactions
Corporate M&A
Tax consultancy for setting up option plans for
employees for various Spanish subsidiaries of
foreign companies.
Option plans for employees
Advice on the setting up of several branches
and subsidiaries of foreign companies in
Spain.
Setting up branches and
subsidiaries
Ourexpertise in taxation
Defence during the Tax Audit relating to Value
Added Tax and Customs Duties in respect of one
of the major importers in the toy sector.
Spanish tax authority inspection
Defend clients during inspection before the
Spanish Tax Authority (AEAT).
VAT consultancy
EXPERIENCE

Tax consultancy for setting up option plans for
employees for various Spanish subsidiaries of
foreign companies.
Advice on complex lease agreements
Due Diligence of real estate private
agreements and property rights in the context
of the acquisition of a shopping center by an
International Investment Fund.
Ourexpertise in real state
Drafting and negotiation of complex construction contract regarding
industrial warehouses with specific guaranties granted by the
constructor for international transport and logistics group.
Construction contract for the adaptation industrial
warehouses
EXPERIENCE
Real Estate Due Diligence
Construction contracts regarding
building rehabilitation for residential
and commercial uses
On the drafting and negotiation of several
complex construction contracts regarding
final construction contracts or construction by
phases contracts, with different constructors
of Spanish Real Estate promoter
Architect services contracts regarding
drafting building projects and managing
construction projects.
Drafting and negotiation of several services contracts
regarding architect functions on projecting and
managing constructions and other contracts involving
different kinds of professionals and companies involved
in building construction.
Surface rights, construction and lease
contracts of major Madrid City project
Advice to investment fund on the surface rights,
construction and lease contracts regarding the largest
skyscraper in Spain to become a Hospital and a
shopping mall.

Our Team

Bachelor of Laws (Extraordinary Award) from the
Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Doctor of Laws
(Dottorato Europeo di Ricerca) from the University of
Bologna (Italy) and Lecturer of Commercial Law at the
Universidad Complutense de Madrid.
Javier Gallego
Partner
Bachelor of Laws from the Universidad Autónoma de
Madrid, D.E.S.S (Diplôme d’Études Supérieures
Spécialisées) en Droit Communautaire des Affaires
(European Commercial Law) Paris Descartes University
(PARIS V).
Partner
Bachelor of Laws from the Universidad Complutense de
Madrid, Masters Degree in Legal Consultancy from the
School of Legal Practice of the Universidad Complutense
de Madrid, Diploma in European Institutions; Diploma in
Advanced Studies from the Universidad Complutense.
Rodrigo Martos
Partner
Bachelor of Laws from the Universidad de Granada. Doctor of
Laws (Dottorato Europeo di Ricerca) from the University of
Bologna (Italy). Lecturer of Administrative Law at the Universidad
Carlos III de Madrid.
Practising lawyer. He has extensive professional experience in all
areas of administrative law in which he has applied his knowledge
as a lecturer and researcher which he develops and disseminates
through numerous papers and publications.
Of counsel
Team of professionals
Meet our team

Lecturer of Commercial Law at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid. Doctor of Laws (Dottorato Europeo di Ricerca) from the
University of Bologna (Italy). Bachelor of Laws (Extraordinary Award) from the Universidad Complutense de Madrid.
Bachelor's Degree Extraordinary Award 1998. Freshfields-Expansion Award for Best Student of Business Law in Spain 1998 -
Finalist. Fellowship from the Royal College of Spain in Bologna (Italy). Doctoral research fellowship at the Universidad
Complutense de Madrid. Research Fellowship in the Department of Legal Sciences, from the Faculty of Law, University of
Bologna.
Founding member and former Deputy Secretary General of the Spanish Association of Minority Shareholders of Listed
Companies (AEMEC).
He has extensive professional experience in all areas of civil and commercial law, having previously practised as a lawyer in
international law firms Clifford Chance and Cremades & Calvo-Sotelo.
His academic research includes corporate law, and he has specialised professionally in corporate operations and restructuring,
mergers and acquisitions, divestment processes, risk capital operations, and judicial and extrajudicial resolutions of corporate
disputes and shareholder agreements. He also has extensive experience in many areas including civil law and commercial
contracts, law of associations and foundations, corporate governance, competition law and advertising law.
He combines his professional practice with teaching and research work as Lecturer of Commercial Law at the Universidad
Complutense de Madrid. He is a lecturer at the IE Business School in Madrid, and is the author of the monograph "Ban power of
directors in corporations. "Budgets and scope", Studia Albornotiana. Publisher, Royal College of Spain, Bologna, 2003, and other
publications, and has appeared as a specialist in commercial law in the media.
Languages: Spanish, English and Italian
Javier Gallego
Partner
Tel.: +34 914 585 777
Fax: +34 914 572 498
javier.gallego@gmqabogados.com
"To combine teaching with
the practice of law means we
can master the technique
and apply it in practice"
OUR TEAM

Rodrigo Martos
Partner
Tel.: +34 914 585 777
Fax: +34 914 572 498
rodrigo.martos@gmqabogados.com
"Our mission: to prevent
problems before having to
resolve them"
Bachelor of Laws from the Universidad Complutense de Madrid, and Masters Degree in Legal Consultancy from the
School of Legal Practice of the Universidad Complutense de Madrid, He also has a Diploma in European Institutions and
Diploma in Advanced Studies from the Universidad Complutense.
He has worked as a lecturer on the Masters programme in Legal Counsel (ICADE) and has taught commercial law at the
"practicum" to final year students in the same faculty. He has also worked as a lecturer on the Masters programme in
Legal Counsel at Universidad Carlos III.
He has extensive professional experience in all areas of civil and commercial law, having previously practised as a lawyer
in international law firms Cuatrecasas (lawyer in the mergers and acquisitions department and member of the "French
Desk", aimed at providing services to French investors in Spain) and Clifford Chance (lawyer in the commercial law
department and member of risk capital group).
He has extensive experience in providing consultancy in the area of commercial law to high net worth individuals, large
enterprises and enterprise groups. Particularly in mergers and acquisitions ("M&A"), purchase and sale of shares/equity
holdings, assets, industries; legal review processes ("Due Diligence"); risk capital operations ("Private Equity");
restructuring of company groups; shareholder agreements; corporate transactions; consultancy to listed companies in
corporate operations and Corporate Governance; legal secretaries; commercial contracts; data protection; constitution,
dissolution and liquidation of companies; judicial and extrajudicial resolution of corporate disputes; unfair competition and
practices restricting competition; Insolvency law, civil law and commercial contracts, law of associations and foundations.
Languages: Spanish, English and French
OUR TEAM

Partner
Tel.: +34 914 585 777
Fax: +34 914 572 498
andres.quadrasalcedo@gmqabogados.com
“Personalised service aimed
at achieving the very best
results”
Bachelor of Laws from the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid. D.E.S.S. (Diplôme d'Etudes Supérieures Spécialisées) en
Droit Communautaire des Affaires (European Commerical Law) Paris Descartes University (Paris V). Preparation of civil
service exams to the Spanish Legal State Corps.
He completed higher studies at the Faculty of Economic Science at the Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia
and studied accounting and financial mathematics at the Centre for Financial Studies (Centro de Estudios Financieros,
CEF) in Madrid.
He has worked as a lecturer of civil law at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid.
A practising lawyer, he has extensive professional experience in the pre-litigation consultancy and mainly in the
management of legal and arbitration proceedings of all kinds in all areas of civil and commercial law. He has previously
served as a trial lawyer in the offices at the leading Clifford Chance firm (trial lawyer in the Department of Litigation &
Dispute Resolution) and Albiñana & Suarez de Lezo (trial lawyer in the Department of Procedural Law) as well as in the
Danish firm Vestas Mediterranean A/S, a company in charge of the Mediterranean area, the Middle East and Latin
America within the multinational Danish Vestas Group, world leader in research, manufacturing, sales and maintenance
of wind turbines.
He has directed court proceedings of all types (declarative, execution) and in all instances (first instance, appeal and
cassation) as well as national and international, institutional and ad hoc arbitration proceedings concerning all types of
matters or matters of civil and commercial law, including, inter alia, actions in contractual arrangements, tort, company
law (liability of directors, challenging corporate resolutions, etc.), unfair competition, advertising, actions in respect of
intellectual property and actions claiming ownership and declaratory action of ownership, compensation for eviction and
hidden defects, actions in the area of construction and building, actions in the field of distribution and agency contracts,
actions relating to leases, consumers, insurance, actions related to insolvency and actions concerning rights to honour
and reputation and inheritance rights.
Languages: Spanish, English and French
OUR TEAM

Of counsel
Tel.: +34 914 585 777
Fax: +34 914 572 498
jose.vida@gmqabogados.com
Lecturer of Administrative Law at the Universidad Carlos III de Madrid. European Doctor of Laws (Dottorato
Europeo di Ricerca) from the University of Bologna (Italy). Bachelor of Laws (Extraordinary Award) from the
Universidad de Granada.
He lectures in administrative law at the Universidad Carlos III de Madrid and on numerous masters
programmes and specialisation courses in various fields (telecommunications, e-government, health, etc.) in
universities and public and private institutions both in Spain and abroad (United States, Argentina, Chile,
Colombia, Peru).
She has been active for over ten years in successive research projects funded by public and private
institutions. He currently heads the research project "Economic evaluation of public services: what-if analysis
from the standpoint of public health" financed by the Community of Madrid and participates as a member in
the project "From the utilities services of general interest in a context of economic crisis "funded by the
Ministry of Science and Innovation (DER2009-09819) and directed by Tomás de la Quadra-Salcedo.
His publications address the main aspects of administrative law with a particular focus on telecommunications
law, audiovisual law, Public Sector Contracts, Health Law, e-Government, etc.
He is Deputy Director of the Masters programme of Laws in Telecommunications and Information Technology
offered by the Universidad Carlos III and he is a member of the Pascual Madoz Institute of Territory, Town
Planning and Environment, and the Seminar in Social Studies on Medication from the same University.
He has received several scholarships from public and private institutions for further study. He also received
awards from the Royal Academy of Jurisprudence of Granada and the Alumni Association of the Faculty of
Law of Granada, for the best student of the class of 1992-1997 He has also received awards for lecturing at
the Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (1997), a finalist in the OCW Universia Award (Madrid, 2010) and Open
Course Ware Consortium Award for Excellence in teaching materials (Cambridge, Mass., 2011) .
Languages: Spanish, English and Italian
OUR TEAM

They have placed their trust in us

All kinds of companies, both national and multinational and including all sectors:
Investors, private equity funds and venture capital business angels, national and large-scale companies, multinationals, family businesses.

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