DLA Piper adds Tax partner and associate trio from KPMG

DLA Piper Spain has hired César Salagaray as new partner along with three associates to strengthen the Transfer Pricing practice of the Tax area

DLA Piper has reinforced its Tax area with the signing of César Salagaray as a partner in its Madrid office to strengthen its Transfer Pricing practice. Along with Salagaray, three associates are also joining the area: Carlos Espinosa Méndez, Natalia Pérez Iglesias and Alejandro Rodrigues Vila. Both Salagaray and the rest of the transfers come from KPMG Abogados.

César Salagaray is a specialist in Transfer Pricing and Structuring of the “Tax Value Chain” of multinational companies. He holds a degree in Law from the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, a Master’s degree in Tax from the Instituto de Empresa and an MBA from ESADE. He also holds a diploma in Taxation from the Colegio de Contadores Públicos de México. With extensive international experience, he worked for five years at PwC Mexico in the area of International Tax & Value Chain Transformation, and previously eight years in PwC Spain in the area of Corporate Tax and International Taxation.

Carlos Rodríguez, partner head of the Tax area at DLA Piper in Spain, emphasises that “Cesar and his team are an ideal complement to DLA Piper’s Tax practice in Spain, reinforcing an area that is increasingly demanding more sophisticated advice, and which is becoming increasingly important in terms of planning, valuation agreements and conflict resolution.”

In the words of Jesús Zapata, managing partner of DLA Piper in Spain: “This is a strategic move for our firm.” And he adds, “the signing of César Salagaray with a team of two lawyers and an economist will allow us to complement and expand our Tax and Transfer Pricing services. These appointments reflect our commitment to our clients to whom we offer one of the strongest teams in the market in this area.”

Pictured from left to right, Carlos Rodríguez, César Salagaray and Jesús Zapata.