Andersen strengthens its Barcelona office with three new incorporations

Andersen has reinforced its Barcelona office with three new additions: José Ignacio Gelpí, as a new partner in the labor and employment department; Stella Raventós, as of counsel in the tax area, and Dimitri Sierra, counsel in the corporate and M&A practice. The three signings are part of the growth and specialization strategy that the firm has been deploying in the city, whose office is headed by Juan Ignacio Alonso.

“These reinforcements represent an important step forward for Andersen in Barcelona, a city where the firm is carrying out an ambitious growth plan, always linked to the inalienable principles of quality and specialization that guide our strategy in the Iberian Peninsula as a whole”, emphasizes Juan Ignacio Alonso, Andersen partner and head of the Barcelona office. “The incorporations of José Ignacio, Stella and Dimitri help us to complete an offer of legal services that the market already recognizes as having high added value, as shown by our having been appointed as exclusive legal advisors to the America’s Cup sailing competition or being the advisors to the Fira to achieve the exploitation of the Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya”, he adds.

José Ignacio Gelpí

José Ignacio Gelpí has a degree in Law from the University of Barcelona and a Master’s Degree in Occupational Risk Prevention. He has a professional career of almost 30 years, in which he has advised on labor issues such as collective bargaining and restructuring; procedures for termination and/or suspension of contracts; dismissals; modification of working conditions; decentralization of production, or the legal and labor impact of mergers and acquisitions, among others.

Previously, he has been a member of law firms such as Garrigues or Gelpí & Morales Abogados Laboralistas. He joins from Prime Legal Abogados where he was a partner. In the academic field, he is an associate professor at the University of Barcelona in the department of Commercial Law and Labor and Social Security Law.

Stella Raventós

Stella Raventós has a degree in Law and a Master in Tax Law from the University of Barcelona. During her three decades of professional career she has specialized in the field of international taxation and corporate taxation. In addition to her experience as a lawyer, she has held institutional positions such as the presidency of the Spanish Association of Tax Advisors (AEDAF), Chair of the Tax Committee of the European Tax Confederation and head of the working group on the CJEU Jurisprudence on direct taxation of the Confederation. She is currently vice-president of the European Tax Confederation, and has joined the firm from Addwill, where she was a partner.

Dimitri Sierra

Finally, Dimitri Sierra holds a degree in Law from the University of Barcelona and a Master in Intellectual/Industrial Property and New Technology and a Master in Digital Business, both from ESADE Business School. As a lawyer, he specializes in commercial law, intellectual and industrial property, and information technology, and has extensive experience in advising Russian-speaking clients.

He has been part of law firms such as Uría Menéndez or Escura and founded the firm Atelier Juridic Advocats; from where he joins Andersen.