Specialist in tax law, advising private clients, family offices on international and crossborder asset structuring, Estate planning and succesion planning.

Florentino Carreño is an expert in asset structuring between countries and generations, the application of double-tax treaties and the international automatic exchange of information for tax purposes. He also focuses on structuring private equity, hedge funds and insurance.

He developed his career at the firm’s London office from 2006 to 2009. An academician of The International Academy of Estate and Trust Law, he was its president from 2020 to 2022. He is also an international fellow of the American College of Trust and Estate Counsel. This experience has enabled him to acquire in-depth knowledge of common law wealth structures.

He is a member of the Madrid Bar Association, of the International Bar Association, of Global Elite, of the International Union of Lawyers and member of its presidential committee.

He lectures in the Master in European Union Law at Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (UC3M), and is a member of the program's academic board. He also lectures in the masters in tax at UC3M and Universidad de Navarra in Madrid.

He has written several books and articles on his specialty for the general and specialized press in Spain and abroad.

He regularly speaks at courses and conferences.

Education

  • Diploma in Advanced European Studies (legal branch)
    Bruges (Belgium), 1989

    Bachelor of Laws
    Universidad de Navarra, 1987

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