Ceca Magán hires Lener´s Tax head partner

Ceca Magán Abogados has hired Javier Fernández Cuenca to lead the M&A practice in the Tax area

Javier Fernández Cuenca (pictured) joins Ceca Magán Abogados from Lener Asesores Legales y Económicos to be a Tax partner. This way, he will be part of the team of partners formed by Javier Lucas, Paula Gámez and Ignacio Gordillo. Since its creation in January 2016, this area has continued to be strengthened year after year.

Javier is an expert in Tax matters, a Legal adviser to Companies from the Universidad Pontificia de Comillas, ICADE (E-1), where he also got a Master’s Degree in Tax Advice. He has a strong specialisation in M&A and Real Estate operations, both nationally and internationally, being considered one of the most relevant lawyers in the Tax field in all kinds of transactions in the last decade.

In his extensive career, Javier has advised a large number of national companies, as well as international companies with investments in Spain. He has also been recognised in several prestigious legal international directories. He has more than 25 years’ experience, having worked in firms like EY, where he spent 2 years in the International Tax Desk in New York, or Pérez-Llorca, where he opened the Tax practice in 2001, leading it for more than 15 years. In the last few years, he has been managing Lener’s Tax practice.

He has been an associate teacher in IE’s Master’s degree in Legal Consultancy for 15 years and taught Venture Capital Taxation at the Institute of Stock Market Studies (IEB) for 6 years. For the last ten years, he has been a lecturer in the Master’s degree in Access to Law at the Universidad de Navarra, and he is also a member of its Advisory Board.