Senior Strategic Advisors
Clarity for the market-entry and transaction decisions that shape what comes next.
We advise boards, founders and executive teams when Spain or Europe is on the agenda, or when an acquisition thesis must hold in local reality—not only on a slide.
Explore our work →Your agenda is not a workstream. It is the work.
Growth across borders and M&A in unfamiliar markets mix commercial, regulatory, corporate and operating choices. Boards need a sequenced path: owners, dependencies and go/no-go criteria they can defend. We start from the decision—not from a catalogue of services.
02 / Expertise
Two mandates. Clear scope.
Homepage focus: market entry and M&A. Adjacent capabilities support those mandates when required—they are not the lead.
Market Entry
Open pageTurn expansion intent into a local decision-and-execution sequence: entry model, counterparts, risk priorities and governance for the first stretch on the ground. We are not counsel, auditor or a licensed intermediary—and we do not promise licences or automatic pan-EU access via Spain.
↗M&A & Strategic Transactions
Open pageTest whether a Spain-related acquisition thesis holds: strategic fit, local context and execution viability before capital is committed; coordinate specialists without replacing them. No deal broking; no substitute for specialised legal or financial advice.
↗Technology & Regulated Markets
Open pageAvailable when a market-entry or transaction mandate requires commercial and institutional navigation across the digital economy, including where regulation shapes the route.
↗Corporate Diplomacy
Open pageAvailable when stakeholder, policy or reputation dynamics are material to an entry or transaction decision.
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03 / How we work
Senior attention. From first question to final outcome.
Frame the real decisionWhat must be true in 90 days, and what stays out of scope.
Build the routeTurn entry or transaction ambition into a credible sequence of moves.
Open the right doorsBring context, access and judgment where momentum depends on trust.
Stay through early executionWork beside leadership until the decision becomes an outcome.
“The best advice does not add complexity. It creates the confidence to move.”
Year One Partners · Senior Strategic Advisors
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