Garrigues named “Tax Firm of the Year” in Spain and Portugal at the ‘European Tax Awards’
The Spanish firm has won all seven editions of the awards
Garrigues has been awarded the ‘European Tax Awards’ for ‘Tax Firm of the Year in Spain’ and ‘Tax Firm of the Year in Portugal’. These awards are granted every year by the International Tax Review to recognize the excellence of European firms in their respective countries. For Garrigues, the sum of these two awards consolidates its leadership in the Iberian tax services market. The awards ceremony was held last night at London’s Dorchester Hotel.
This is the seventh year in a row that Garrigues has emerged victorious, making it the only firm to walk off with top honors at all the annual ‘European Tax Awards’. The Firm was also nominated in the category of ‘Transfer Pricing Firm of the Year’. Garrigues’ Portuguese tax practice took the award for the second year running after having consistently ranked well in these awards. Since the Portuguese team was set up just five years ago, the department has been a finalist in this same category every year and has always been included in the first tier of the World Tax directory published annually by International Tax Review.
A further six awards for Taxand
As well as recognizing the work of the Garrigues tax specialists and their advisory services in major transactions, the panel of judges also took into account the Firm’s strong position in the international market. In this regard, a pivotal role was played by Taxand, the global network of independent pure tax firms, of which Garrigues is a founding member. Taxand was one of the stars of the ‘European Tax Awards’, being named ‘European Indirect Tax Firm of the Year’ for the second year running and taking home “European Tax Policy Firm of the Year” for the first time. Individually, four Taxand firms also picked up awards: the firms from Cyprus (Eurofast), Turkey (Erdikler) and Poland (Accreo) have been recognized as the best in their respective countries, while the Belgian firm (AB Taxand) won the Best Newcomer award.