The Firm

Learn about our history

Our firm was founded in 1986. That year, Spain and Portugal joined what was then known as the European Economic Community—now the European Union—and Barcelona was bidding to host the 1992 Olympic Games. It was also the year of the referendum on remaining in NATO, and Felipe González was re-elected as Prime Minister.

Some may consider this brief historical context trivial, but it’s worth remembering what legal services were like back then. It was a very different time, with a traditional, rigid, and inward-focused legal profession.

At GES40, from the very beginning, we did not consider ourselves a typical law firm but rather a legal services company. This perspective has allowed us, over the past 30 years, to establish a law firm project that we envisioned as being built on continuous training and technology.

Our goal has always been to achieve the highest levels of technical expertise, providing a unique delivery through efficiency and effectiveness in responding to the challenges of our clients, thanks to technology and our protocols, which we have developed and adapted as we matured as an organization.

Later, we decided to take it a step further, bringing our technical knowledge and experience to new heights with the aim of driving our clients’ businesses forward. Thus, to achieve the first goal, we decided to focus on sectoral specialization, which has allowed us to become a boutique of reference for banks, investment funds, and companies in the insurance sector. For our second goal, we opted for a cultural shift: we moved from seeing ourselves as legal or technical problem solvers to reinforcing, in all our actions, the idea of becoming strategic partners of high added value, aiming to make ourselves indispensable.

Clients

We are proud to count renowned national and international corporations among our clients. Their trust fuels our enthusiasm—and even more so as a boutique—to provide better service every day. We believe that the best credentials a firm can offer are its clients, and for this reason, we have gathered in this section some of the companies that have placed their trust in us: