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
Four mandates. Clear scope.
Market entry, M&A, technology and regulated markets, and corporate diplomacy. Each with its own scope.
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 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 substitute for specialised legal or financial advice.
↗Technology & Regulated Markets
Open pageCommercial and institutional navigation across the digital economy, where regulation shapes the route.
↗Corporate Diplomacy
Open pageStakeholder, policy and reputation strategy when those dynamics are material to the decision.
↗We are not a law firm, an audit firm or a regulated investment firm, and we do not provide legal, audit or regulated investment services. We coordinate specialists without replacing them.
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 the decision into a credible sequence of moves.
Engage the right counterpartsBring context and judgment where momentum depends on trust.
Stay through early executionWork beside leadership until the decision becomes an outcome.
“Good advice does not add complexity. It creates the confidence to move.”
Year One Partners · Senior Strategic Advisors
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