Did you know that 40% of mergers and acquisitions fail due to undetected tax issues? A poorly planned M&A transaction can drag along millions in hidden liabilities, trigger the Complementary Tax, or c...
Only 29.3% of family businesses manage to survive at least one generational change, and barely 1.2% reach the third generation. Recent cases such as Celsa, Naviera Armas and Rator remind us that poor ...
Mergers and acquisitions are complex processes, often involving multiple and sometimes conflicting interests. When something goes wrong, resolving the issue quickly and effectively must be a top prior...
Value and price are different things. Value is a reasoned estimate of the business based on data, projections, and analysis. Price… well, that’s what someone is willing to pay and what the seller ...
Selling a company is a milestone—but also a shockwave. It’s a surgical operation that touches sensitive nerves: people, culture, clients, and processes. If not handled properly, it can be costly...
In 2023, 43% of M&A deals in Spain involved family-owned companies, surpassing private equity (26%) and industrial corporations (19%), according to the National Statistics Institute (INE). This is not...
M&A in Spain and Portugal is undergoing a significant transformation. In the first quarter of 2025, deal volume fell by 52.7% year-on-year. However, the total value of transactions increased by 13.2%,...
CMS’s latest European study on M&A transactions provides the keys: more money is moving, there is investor appetite, and formulas are being sought to better spread the risks. The result? Two structu...
El informe “Relevancia y Supervivencia de la Empresa Familiar” revela que solo el 4,5% de las empresas familiares están presentes en sectores intensivos en tecnología. Eso significa estar fuera ...
They didn’t say it in those words. But that is what is happening. The TEAC rulings in 2024 on holding companies introduce a twist: it is no longer enough to formally comply with the requirements of ...
Una indemnity en M&A no es solo una formalidad legal. Es tu seguro de vida en una operación compleja. Puede parecer un tecnicismo, pero no lo es. Si estás en medio de una operación de compraventa o...
