Expertise
Covadonga Pérez is a Counsel in the Tax sector. She is a lawyer with more than 13 years of experience, advising on all things tax-related: including corporate and individuals' tax direct, indirect, international and local taxation, M&A transactions, international tax planning structures, tax audit procedures, family office structures, tax & succession planning and private equity transactions and structures.
Some of the clients she has advised include, among others, Arcano Partners Group, Grupo EDP, Qualitas Capital, Portobello Capital, Seaya, Asterion Industrial and El Corte Inglés family office.
- Experience
Highlighted credentials include:
- Advice to EDP Group on the tax issues related with the sale of Naturgas, the largest gas distribution company in Spain, to the consortium established by JP Morgan Infrastructure, Abu Dhabi Investment Council, Swiss Life Asset Managers and Covalis Capital. Deal value: €2,591 million.
- Advice to real estate companies on the tax issues related regarding its real estate investments in Europe and Spain (Mazabi Real Estate Management, acquisition and sale of the Torre Norte Castellana building, Globe Iberia Group).
- Advice to Asterion Industrial on the tax structuring of its private equity funds. Deals value: €1,500 million and €3,000 million.
- Advice to private equity houses on all the tax issues related to the day-to-day activity of its funds, in particular to the corporate income tax (Arcano Partners Group, Qualitas, Seaya, Mutua Madrileña).
- Advice to family offices on the tax and succession structuring and planning.
- Advice to family offices and private equity houses on tax audits carried out by the Spanish Tax Agency.
- GED Capital on the tax matters related to secondary transaction consisting on the acquisition of Vitro, S.A. from GED V and minority shareholders by (i) a continuation fund managed by GED Capital, (ii) GED VI and (iii) the management team.
- Education
- ICADE - Universidad Pontifcia Comillas (Madrid) - 2015
- Centro de Estudios Garrigues - 2012
- Unversidad de Navarra - 2010
- Languages
- Spanish (spoken)
- German (professional)
- English (spoken)
- French (professional)