Startup Lawyers

At MERAC we provide a comprehensive service to startups at the different stages of the business, offering advice from incorporation to launch.

Specifically, we advise on choosing the corporate structure for the business, drafting contracts and agreements, and on compliance with all legal obligations applicable to the business. We also help protect intellectual property and advise partners and investors on the various protocols and agreements to be signed to ensure the continuity of the company.

Main services as Lawyers specialised in Startups

  • Incorporation of companies choosing the best corporate structure.
  • Shareholders' agreements.
  • Negotiation of the participation terms of accelerators or other types of alternative financing.
  • Investor agreements.
  • Drafting of all contracts required to launch the business
  • Advice on purchase processes from due diligence to the execution of the SPA.
  • Guidance on intellectual property and industrial rights
  • Assistance in applying the special regime for inbound expatriates (Beckham Law)
  • Advice on applying the tax incentives of the Startups Law
  • Tax incentives for startup investors. Investment and divestment process
  • Taxation of the different forms of investment in startups

Our specialist solicitors

Mercedes Nieto

Legal Area Manager

Mercedes Nieto is a Lawyer and Economist and partner in the Corporate Law and Commercial Contracts practice at MERAC LEGAL & TAX LAWYERS. She began her professional career in the Coporate Law and Commercial Department of Garrigues and later moved to Qatar to work in a construction company until she joined the Corporate Law and Comercial Department of KPMG Abogados.

In 2018, she joined a law firm in Marbella as head of the Corporate Law and Commercial Department until joining MERAC LEGAL & TAX LAWYERS as a Partner.

She specialises in corporate and commercial law, mergers and acquisitions (M&A), real estate, national and international contracts and civil law.

She has been involved in M&A and property transactions across a wide range of sectors, and was recognised for her work as a solicitor in the field of commercial law and mergers and acquisitions by ‘Best Lawyers International’ in its 2020 and 2021 editions; in 2020, she was also awarded the prize for best lawyer in that field, and nominated in 2022, 2023 and 2024.

Carmen Gallardo

Head of Tax Area

Carmen Gallardo is a Lawyer and Economist and Partner of the Tax Department of MERAC LEGAL & TAX LAWYERS.

She began her professional career more than 10 years ago in the Tax Law department of Garrigues until she joined the tax department of a multinational group of companies in the logistics sector based in Madrid, where she joined the financial-tax department of the parent company in Germany for three months, where she broadened her knowledge of international taxation.

In 2018, she joined the tax department of a law firm in Marbella until the foundation of MERAC LEGAL & TAX LAWYERS where she is partner responsible of the Tax Department.

Carmen specialises in corporate tax law. She has developed her career advising multinational groups on direct and indirect, national and international taxation and has participated in many corporate restructuring and M&A (Mergers and Acquisitions) transactions. She also has extensive experience in advising on transfer pricing and tax proceedings.

In the 2020 and 2021 editions, she has been recognised for her work as a lawyer in the area of tax law by the association "Best Lawyers International".

Merecedes Nieto

Legal Area Manager

Carmen Gallardo

Head of Tax Area