The professional services firm Grant Thornton expands its territorial network with the launch of a new office in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, the first in the archipelago.
Continuing with its growth strategy, and with the aim of leading the professional services market in the Canary Islands, Grant Thornton It already has its first office in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria.
Grant Thornton Cuyás & Soria, as the new firm is called, is the result of the union of three partners such as the Canarian law firm Cuyás Abogados, the business consultancy of José Manuel Soria, Sorben Partners, and the services firm Grant Thornton.
From this alliance comes the new firm with which they seek to meet the needs of Canarian entrepreneurs with a portfolio of multidisciplinary services. Among them, audit and insurance services, comprehensive legal advice in tax, commercial, administrative-public and labor law, as well as financial advice and forensic, Business Support and the public sector, among others.
Consulting will also be key since Canary Islands companies will be able to access a wide range of business, strategy, innovation and technology consulting services, and especially for the financial, tourism, maritime or energy fields, among many others.
With this broad portfolio, Grant Thornton Cuyás & Soria seeks to accompany companies in the face of new needs that they may require in a recovery scenario such as the current one and to be a benchmark firm. The extensive experience of its three partners supports these objectives, from the deep knowledge of the market of Cuyás Abogados and José Manuel Soria, and with the impulse of a firm with a long history in professional services at a national and international level such as Grant Thornton.
As Ramón Galcerán, President of Grant Thornton in Spain, explains, “We have been wanting to open a market in the Canary Islands for a long time and we did not want to do it alone, but with partners who know the terrain well and who fit in with the philosophy and values of our firm. The new company is the logical step of an extensive previous collaboration, with great quality, and it begins to walk, therefore, with all the wickers to consolidate itself as an important and solid alternative option of integral advice for all the Canarian business community “.
It is not, therefore, a newly created company, and this alliance was born as a Canarian firm, identified with the economic, fiscal and geographic specificity of the island, something that the three partners are well aware of. The founder of Cuyás Abogador, Salvador Cuyás, and his main partners, have more than thirty years of experience in his office; While, José Manuel Soria, also has extensive experience in the public and private sector and knowledge of the needs and particularities of Canarian companies.
In the words of José Manuel Soria, Partner of Grant Thornton Cuyás & Soria, “We have been working for more than two years with Grant Thornton throughout Spain and in all its lines of business, through consulting and advisory work that helps them make their way to the islands”. For this reason, for the person in charge, this association represents another step in its “Joint work, with a single beneficiary who is the Canarian business market”.
The synergies of Grant Thornton Cuyás & Soria
The synergies of the three partners leads Grant Thornton Cuyás & Soria to propose three main fundamental objectives: for a place, the reactivation of the Canarian economy in general, and in particular, the tourism sector, one of the main in the Canary Islands and which has experienced a strong impact after the pandemic. To do this, they will support companies in their restructuring, expansion, refinancing, consulting or auditing, among others.
The second of the purposes is the expansion of knowledge and maximization of the use of the tools that the economic and fiscal regime of the Canary Islands has, especially to take advantage of the use of incentives for investment and job creation it entails.
And finally, work on counseling to large business groups in the Canary Islands in their investment processes, recovery plans, administrative and public procurement issues, Banking, Commercial and Labor Law.
For Álvaro Rodríguez, National Managing Partner of the Grant Thornton Legal Area in Spain and promoter of the main conversations of the new agreement, “The extension of Grant Thornton in the Canary Islands from a germ of advice in the legal field and the pleasant knowledge of the partners who accompany us in this new journey allows us to be very optimistic; I am convinced that the project will have a strong development in the coming months “.
