Ignacio Calvet joined Garrigues in 1989, through Arthur Andersen, Tax and Legal, where he has pursued his whole professional career. He is a partner since 2001.

He has a wide experience in providing tax advice to listed national and multinational corporations, both with regard to national and international tax, and to family owned corporations in high wealth matters. He has a specialised focus on tax and regulatory aspects of the financial industry and, in particular, of the insurance sector and pension benefits schemes. in this field, he combines his tax and regulatory experience in advising in the design of financial and insurance products, pension benefits remuneration packages or insurance distribution structures.

He has in major mergers and adquisitions in the banking, insurance, media & publishing and energy industries.

He coordinates the French Desk of Garrigues.

He is a lawyer, with an economics and business administration degree, and an insurance actuary.

In addition to Spanish and Catalan, he is perfectly fluent in English and French.

Degrees in Law (1988) and Business and Economics (1989), majoring in Actuarial Science, at the Universidad de Barcelona.

He regularly lectures in tax and finance at most of the teaching institutions in Barcelona.

He is a member of the Barcelona Bar Association and the Institute of Actuaries of Cataluña.

Regular contributor to specialized publications.