About us

Avantges traces its origins back more than 20 years, when our mother’s firm, 4|5|3 Law Firm,SAP (formerly named Marco Legal Abogados & Economistas, SAP) was founded. From the very first moment, our founding partners decided to provide not only legal services to our international corporate clients, but also help them to meet their accounting, tax and payroll needs when landing in our country. This is how a specialized division within the law firm started offering outsourcing services. Later on, that division became a separate, wholly owned subsidiary called Avantges.

Throughout the years, the firm has evolved and grown -around the core values of reliability and quality of service – both in size and geographical reach by recruiting the best professionals while maintaining a focus on the client. From our founding we have worked with clients from several countries in Europe, Middle East, US and South America and our number of international clients continues to expand.

We are also aware the objective of outsourcing has now shifted from merely saving costs to achieving sustained performance improvement. Taking into account the above, Avantges team offers an unparalleled service in accounting, tax planning and compliance, payroll and human resources for doing business in Spain. Our services allow our clients to concentrate on what they do best – adding extra value and strategic focus for their business- while leaving specialized support functions to us.

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It was not an easy decision, but by the end of 1999 our founding partners decided to quit their jobs in a big, multinational, top-tier Anglo-Saxon auditing firm -where they had been working between 6-9 years in permanent contact with foreign companies investing in Spain- and start their own business.

Our mother company was incorporated and commenced operations on March 29th, 2000. At that time, the firm was composed of one lawyer and one tax advisor (the founding partners) and a reduced group of clients –we are proud to say that several of them have grown up with us and still count with our services-.

Our first office did not exceed 150 square meters and in a few years it became too small, so in 2006 we decided it was time for a change. 2007 was our first complete year at our new premises, much bigger and modern and located in the central business district of Barcelona.

We expanded our presence and geographical reach with the opening of a new office, this time in Madrid, from which we serve both national clients and subsidiaries of multinational companies. Our presence in Barcelona and, as of 2018, also in Madrid, allows us to offer all our services equally in both cities and their respective areas of influence, placing us at the same level as the main advisory firms in our country.

Our clear international vocation leads us to go one step further and we join the Abacus Worldwide network, with presence in more than 50 countries on five continents. Without losing our independence and closeness to the client, the new network allows us to accompany our clients in their international expansion when necessary. Likewise, Abacus Worldwide gives us the possibility of offering our services to a greater number of multinational companies interested in establishing themselves in our country.

Almost 25 years have passed since everything started and the Group now employs a full-time staff of more than twenty multilingual professionals, including corporate attorneys, tax advisors, accountants and labour & payroll specialists. Each of them is dedicated to providing the highest quality of professional services to meet our international client’s needs and help them to achieve their objectives when making business in Spain. Clients can request a fully integrated solution or choose only the service they need. In both cases, our clients’ success is (and always has been) our goal.