Tim Garcia

Tim is a highly-experienced and practical corporate, commercial, tax and private client specialist. His expertise and services include:

•  Corporate and individual establishment/relocation to Gibraltar (including employee licensing/registrations)
• Non-executive Director (and related advisory services)
• Cross-Border knowledge and practical experience
• Tax advisory
• M&A
• Joint ventures
• Distributions and other cash and asset repatriations
• Corporate finance
• Preparing companies for voluntary liquidation/restoring solvency
• Voluntary Liquidator licensed by the Gibraltar Financial Services Commission

Recent work highlights include:

•  acting as non-executive director of a Gibraltar company holding a prominent position within a soon to be-merged global leader in energy services
•  affording ongoing advisory assistance to one of the World’s leading betting and gaming groups, often balancing Group and individual directorship considerations
• assisting a leading multinational shipping container company with establishment/organisation in Gibraltar
• corporate and tax advisory assistance to an FCA regulated international payment processing company passporting certain services into Gibraltar from the UK
• affording tax advisory and structuring assistance to crypto e-commerce company that allows users to purchase gift cards, mobile phone top-ups, and eSIMs using cryptocurrencies
• full legal and tax advisory assistance to a global bank with a variety of reorganisations, expedited repatriations of assets, planned cessation of joint ventures, and voluntary liquidations
• acting for a cloud-based banking platform group in the re-domiciliation of one of their Gibraltar entities to Switzerland

Given his extensive (often innovative) cross-border dealings with numerous jurisdictions including the US, UK, Luxembourg, Switzerland, Caribbean countries and, more recently Spain (following Gibraltar EU Treaty developments), Tim is very well versed in advising how to optimally do business from and within Gibraltar.

Career

Tim is a University of Nottingham graduate (which included an Erasmus year studying Spanish Law at the Universitat de Valencia in Spain) and endeavours to balance his workload with his young family and his various musical and sporting interests (having represented Gibraltar internationally in both). Tim completed his Bar Vocational Course at the Inns of Courts School of Law in London. A member of the Honourable Society of the Middle Temple and inaugural Chairman of the Gibraltar Law Students Association, Tim was called to the Bar in England & Wales and Gibraltar in 2006, joining Hassans in the same year.