Álvaro Manteca is a partner in the Tax Law Department of Garrigues, where he has worked since 2005. He specializes in the areas of private equity and mergers and acquisitions, and is also a member of the French Desk.

He has extensive experience in providing tax advice on highly complex matters, including:

• Leveraged investment projects for international private equity funds in public or private multinational companies, covering among others the aspects related to the co-investors participating in the project, the underwriting and servicing of the debt, as well as the alternatives for the involvement and motivation of the management team of the acquired company.
• Takeover bids of listed Spanish companies.
• Initial public offerings of companies owned by international private equity funds.
• Projects for the integration of companies in merger and spin-off processes, as part of the creation of large multinational groups, both listed and private.
• Reorganization projects for multinational groups, to promote the development and growth of their activities.
• Debt restructuring projects, both in out-of-court processes and in judicial refinancing or insolvency proceedings, both domestic and cross-border.
• Ongoing advice to multinational groups and international investment firms, on specific tax aspects such as mechanisms to avoid double taxation, tax consolidation, remuneration of managers and directors, carried interest, related-party transactions and application of tax incentives.
• Tax disputes related to all of the above aspects.

• Degree in Business Administration, ESADE.
• MBA, ESADE.
• Executive Master's Degree in Corporate Finance, Centro de Estudios Garrigues.

Member of the Madrid College of Economists

Co-author of the 7th and 8th Edition of the chapter "Spain - Fundrasing" of "The Private Equity Review", edited by The Law Reviews.