Nerea Llona
Tax & Legal Counsel - Spain at Utmost International- Claim this Profile
Click to upgrade to our gold package
for the full feature experience.
-
English Native or bilingual proficiency
-
Spanish Native or bilingual proficiency
Topline Score
Bio
Credentials
-
Abogada Ejerciente - ICAM
Ilustre Colegio de Abogados de MadridJan, 2021- Oct, 2024 -
Cross-Border States SIG - Special Interest Group
STEP – Advising Families Across GenerationsApr, 2017- Oct, 2024 -
International Client SIG - Special Interest Group
STEP – Advising Families Across Generations -
Miembro de la AEDAF - Asociación Española de Asesores Fiscales
AEDAF. Asociación Española de Asesores Fiscales -
Miembro de la British Spanish Law Association
British Spanish Law Association (BSLA)
Experience
-
Utmost International
-
Financial Services
-
200 - 300 Employee
-
Tax & Legal Counsel - Spain
-
Sep 2020 - Present
Utmost International is a leading life assurance group which provides solutions to preserve our clients’ assets and safeguard them for future generations. Our propositions provide effective and reliable solutions for clients who wish to maintain security over the wealth they have accumulated and control over the proceeds when planning succession.Check out our solution for the Spanish HNWI market: Utmost International is a leading life assurance group which provides solutions to preserve our clients’ assets and safeguard them for future generations. Our propositions provide effective and reliable solutions for clients who wish to maintain security over the wealth they have accumulated and control over the proceeds when planning succession.Check out our solution for the Spanish HNWI market:
-
-
-
Blevins Franks
-
United Kingdom
-
Financial Services
-
100 - 200 Employee
-
International Tax & Wealth Management Senior Adviser
-
May 2015 - Sep 2020
Blevins Franks is a leading European financial advice group which has been providing integrated tax planning and wealth management advice to British expatriates in Europe since 1975. Blevins Franks was established to assist our clients to understand and prepare for the taxation and financial planning issues they face on moving from the UK to another country. Our business is based on delivering a local, first class, seamless tax planning and wealth management service for British expatriates and UK residents. Our goal is to help our clients protect themselves from tax; preserve their wealth and pensions, and organise their assets in the most effective manner so that they can be passed to their heirs as efficiently as possible.We have local offices in Spain, France, Monaco, Portugal, Cyprus, Malta and a head office in St James’s Square, London. Specialties - Private client:• Tax & estate planning • Tax efficient investments (life assurance bonds, unit-linked, etc) • Asset protection • Offshore trusts and companies (IOM, Malta, Guernsey, Jersey, BVI, etc)• Retirement planning• Pension schemes• Qualifying Recognised Overseas Pension Schemes (QROPS)• Qualifying Non UK Pension Schemes (QNUPS)• Domicile determination • Tax residency determinationI primarily advice clients, predominantly UK nationals and HNWI, who are moving to/from Spain or who have financial interests in Spain. Almost all the cases handled involve high value, complex, cross-border matters both from a tax and a legal point of view. Spanish Tax Desk role:- Assessing the impact of tax developments in Spain on our business and our clients.- Providing Spanish tax and legal knowledge support to business development initiatives.- Drafting high level material for external and internal publications.- Preparing and delivering Spanish tax trainings.- Feeding the team's Spanish tax knowledge by preparing tax updates, newsflashes, internal manuals, etc.
-
-
-
KPMG
-
Canada
-
Accounting
-
700 & Above Employee
-
Tax Associate - Global Mobility Services, Private Client & Reward
-
Oct 2014 - May 2015
The pressure to compete effectively has led many organizations to constantly evaluate the size, scope and skills of their global workforce - placing greater demands on international human resources teams. Additionally, compensation, tax compliance requirements, and global mobility are ever-more costly, complex, and time consuming when managed on an international scale.With our experience and international presence, KPMG’s Global Mobility Services (GMS) professionals help global companies better manage their international mobile workforce – by thinking beyond the present and beyond borders. In addition to providing comprehensive global tax compliance, advisory, and administrative services, our global mobility services can support your international assignment programs with a global network of specialized professionals and a suite of technology-based tools. For organizations considering expansion into a new location, acquisitions, mergers, or downsizing, GMS can also offer professional advice and guidance on related issues affecting an expatriate workforce.http://www.kpmg.com/es/es/servicios/abogados/fiscal/peopleservices/paginas/default.aspx
-
-
-
PwC
-
Professional Services
-
700 & Above Employee
-
Tax Consultant - International Assignment Services
-
Nov 2011 - Oct 2014
Personal income tax, wealth tax and tax saving experience, specialising primarily in the area of global mobility/international assignments services. Significant experience on Spanish and international tax planning and cross-border compliance and consulting for inbound and outbound employees, including daily contact with the PwC global tax network, and regular relationships with tax authorities in different countries. Extensive experience advising different sector clients on structuring international assignments from and to Spain, to optimize their taxes and fulfil all legal requirements.- Tax advisory for global mobility (international taxation, payrolls and shadow payrolls, withholding taxes, balance sheets, cost projections, tax calculations worldwide, etc.)- Design and implementation of global mobility and tax equalization policies for companies- Tax advisory on personal income tax and wealth tax worldwide- Spanish tax compliance- General consultancy on all aspects of human resources, specialized on taxes related to global mobility- Worldwide taxation guides (personal income tax, wealth tax, social security, inmigration, withholdings, etc.)- DTT interpretation and application - Business travellers - Analysis of the internal exemption for works performed abroad from Spain (7p)- Proposals of serviceshttp://www.pwc.es/es/legal-fiscal/soluciones-rrhh.jhtml
-
-
Education
-
-
IE Business School
Master of Laws (LLM), Tax Law/Taxation -
-
CEF Centro de Estudios Financieros
Planificación Fiscal de Patrimonios -
-
Universidad de Deusto
Law + Business (LLB) -
2021 - 2022
Universidad Complutense de Madrid
Diploma de Alta Especialización - Optimización Fiscal del Patrimonio y la Inversión, Derecho tributario
Community
