Multicultural and multilingual team with Spanish and LatAm expertise
Loyens & Loeff is the leading law and tax firm in Benelux and Switzerland. Our integrated cross-border teams provide tailored legal, regulatory, and tax solutions to multinational corporations, global investors, and financial institutions.
We deliver smart solutions, act as a trusted adviser to our international clients and support their growth. Our dedicated Region Teams bring together lawyers from diverse practice areas – including corporate, banking & finance, tax, capital markets, and financial regulation – with a particular focus on Spain & Portugal and Latin America. Our leading expertise is recognised throughout the years, and our contributions have notably been awarded Deal of the Year award by Latin Lawyer and LatinFinance on numerous occasions.
Our dedicated Region Teams for Latin America and Spain & Portugal offer full scope of legal & tax advisory services
Around 20 tax and legal advisers from all departments across our home markets focus on Spain & Portugal and on Latin America.
We provide full legal and tax support to clients pursuing international expansion strategies. We have seen growing interest from Iberian clients in cross-border service provision as well as from Latin American companies seeking to establish a European presence via our home markets. By way of example, we have assisted clients with capital raising by means of bond issuances, the relocation of headquarters with tax efficient structures, or acquisitions of different types of regulated and unregulated companies. We regularly advise leading Spanish banks and Latin American corporates and financial conglomerates on doing business in all our home markets and in particular Luxembourg.
A substantial part of our clients are financial institutions, private clients, and corporations active in infrastructure, aviation, food & beverage, technology & telecom or energy. We provide them with innovative legal advice in all aspects of their business such as tax, M&A transactions, capital markets, financial regulatory, fund structuring, litigation and banking & finance law matters. Our global perspective on their business enables us to better understand their needs and ambitions, allowing us to support them more effectively in their pursuit of success.
We ensure that we stay close to our clients by visiting them in Spain, Portugal and Latin America where we also attend and organise events. By the end of this year we will have visited, only in 2025, Madrid, Barcelona, São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, and Buenos Aires.
Our interaction with Spanish- and Portuguese-speaking clients is particularly close given the multicultural origin of our lawyers and the linguistic diversity that may be found in all our home offices.
We are extremely proud to be a multicultural and diverse firm. Across all our offices we have professionals from 35 nationalities, including Spain, Portugal, Argentina, Colombia, Honduras and Brazil and we support our clients in their own language.
A multicultural team driving cross-border legal and tax excellence from Luxembourg, Amsterdam, Zurich, and Brussels
Our team members receive top-tier individual rankings in leading international guides such as Who’s Who Legal, Chambers & Partners and Legal 500.
Charlotte Kiès and Aline Nunes
Partners – Tax Advisors – Amsterdam and Luxembourg
Charlotte and Aline, partners in our Amsterdam and Luxembourg offices respectively, are one of the driving forces behind our Latin America teams. In addition, they possess a wealth of knowledge on Pillar Two and actively encourage knowledge sharing and collaboration across the firm. They both have extensive experience in international taxation and advise multinationals, private equity funds, and high-net-worth individuals on a daily basis.
Both Aline and Charlotte travel frequently to Spain and Brazil to meet their clients in the region.
Adrien Pierre and Vanesa Gómez
Partner and Senior – Financial Regulation – Luxembourg
Adrien and Vanesa, Partner and Senior Lawyer in the Financial Services Regulation practice of our Luxembourg office, are seasoned advisers to Luxembourg and international financial entities (banks, investment firms, financial holding companies, payment institutions, crypto asset service providers, etc.).
Both fluent in Spanish, they regularly travel to Spain to collaborate with clients and law firms. They have notably advised the largest Spanish credit group on several occasions as well as Latin America’s largest conglomerate in its acquisition of a Luxembourg bank, and regularly advise Spanish banks and their local subsidiaries on regulatory matters. Adrien and Vanesa help their clients to navigate complex EU frameworks and to launch their regulated operations in Luxembourg.
Aline is originally from Brazil and Vanesa is from Spain, they both have prior experience in their home countries thus bringing a particularly valuable understanding of the local markets and clients’ needs and expectations.
Judith Raijmakers
Partner – Banking & Finance – Luxembourg and Zurich
Judith specializes in banking and finance transactions including acquisition financing, asset financing, real estate financing, debt issuances, financial restructuring and insolvency, secured lending, debt (re)structuring, debt issuances and financial regulatory matters.
Judith is a member of the firm’s Latin America team and also travels frequently to Brazil. She is a trusted advisor to major Brazilian financial institutions expanding into Europe and Switzerland with whom she interacts on a daily basis.
Judith is also a qualified Luxembourg and Dutch lawyer. She is the perfect example of our cross-border mentality.
Noémi Gémesi
Partner – Capital Markets – Luxembourg
Noémi advises and represents clients including financial institutions, corporate and sovereign issuers on a wide range of matters including IPOs, debt issuance programmes, placements and buybacks of securities, consent solicitations and exchange offers, takeovers, applications for listing and admission to trading and ongoing obligations resulting from such listings.
She is a very active member of our Latin America team and has travelled several times to Brazil to visit local firms and clients interested in issuing bonds and other instruments in Luxembourg.
Exceptional reputation, top ranking from premium Spanish and Latin American clients and peers and longstanding working relationships with top-tier advisers in both regions.
At Loyens & Loeff, we combine legal excellence with a commitment to being a great place to work and a trusted close partner for our clients. We believe that empowering our people to lead and innovate, through initiatives like our Spain & Portugal and Latin America Regional Teams, is key to delivering exceptional service. This entrepreneurial spirit drives the quality of our advice and the depth of our client relationships.