CMS Albinana & Suarez de Lezo appoints new Managing Partner of the Tax Department

CMS Albinana & Suarez de Lezo has announced the integration of a team of professionals headed by tax law and tax-procedural specialist [private]Felipe Alonso from the Madrid office of the international law firm Baker & McKenzie. With this
incorporation, CMS Albinana & Suarez de Lezo will reinforce its current team and give a strong strategic boost to its tax department.

Felipe Alonso will join the firm in September 2009 as managing partner of the Tax Department of CMS Albinana & Suarez de Lezo, working in coordination with Santiago Diez and a team comprising of 16 professionals between the Madrid, Seville and Marbella offices.

For the new managing partner, the integration in CMS Albinana & Suarez de Lezo will become a new phase and a new challenge after his experience of almost a decade in the international firm Baker & McKenzie in which he has worked during the last nine years.

Felipe Alonso possesses a wide experience in taxation.  Among other acknowledgments, he is listed in The European Legal 500 and the Chambers Global, where he is recognised as “a tax expert providing high quality advice in procedures regarding procedural tax law”. Alonso is a Tax Inspector currently on leave of absence (1989) and has performed the position as general sub director of legal ordinance and legal assistance to the Spanish General Directorate for Tax
Inspection and Treasury Department.

“Personally it is an enormous satisfaction to form part of CMS Albinana & Suarez of Lezo, where we will contribute a strategic impulse to the area of taxation and, more concretely, to that of tax litigation, in a moment in which the business requires a greater specialization in a context of increase in the activity”, underlines Felipe Alonso.

For Cesar Albinana Cilveti, managing partner of CMS Albinana & Suarez of Lezo “for us it is a great pride to include Felipe Alonso and his group of professionals because they are the best option for our office; with him we incorporate a magnificent, highly qualified team with great experience and capacity to give our future and current clients more complete, in-depth advice”.

CMS Albinana & Suarez de Lezo in figures.  In 2008, CMS Albinana & Suarez de Lezo invoiced EUR 19.65 million in transactions, which represents an 11.6% increase compared to the previous year, and shows the firm’s growth tendency in a year that was marked by economic difficulties.

The firm, led by Rafael Suarez de Lezo and Cesar Albinana Cilveti, is currently comprised of 80 attorneys, 18 partners, and –since 2005- is a member of CMS, the international organisation of the major European law firms, and the most important independent network in Europe. [/private]