Expert in Corporate Law

We accompany our clients’ business teams in their projects aimed at national and international growth.

• Project analysis in collaboration with the business team, and planning of the legal actions required to execute the project.
• Analysis of the legal risks involved in the project.
• Design of the best legal strategy for the implementation of the project.
• Preparation of all the legal documentation required to take part in public tender procedures and monitoring of progress right up to the final award of the contract.
• Drafting or revision and negotiation of contracts linked to the business project: concession agreements, leases, management agreements, joint ventures, etc.
• Planning and design of the establishment of all kinds of trading companies and corporate structures, both nationally and internationally.
• Drafting of bylaws, shareholder agreements and vote syndication agreements.
  • Operations for purchasing or divestiture of running businesses.
  • Legal Due Diligence for the buying and selling of companies, with the involvement of multi-disciplinary teams.
  • Buying and selling of fixed assets and real estate, sale & lease back.

We work with the Project implementation team in any activities related to the start-up of the business:

• Advice for all kinds of trading agreements, including: construction contracts (i.e. FIDIC, EPC agreements, etc.), funding rounds and attraction of investors.
• Bank financing contracts, project finance.
• Contracts with clients and suppliers; business management contracts; distribution agreements.
• Employment contracts and senior management contracts.
• Tax applicable to the project.
• Advice and processing of the permits required by the administration to operate the business.
• Advice on processing subsidies and grants.
• Protection of trademarks, brand names and patents.

We advise the business team as regards the legal issues involved in the day-to-day running of the business.

Our services in this area include among others:

• Ongoing consultation.
• Contracts with clients and suppliers.
• Contracts for the supply of goods and services.
• Distribution and agency agreements.
• Transportation contracts and deposit goods agreements.
• Licence agreements.
• Agency, representation and intermediation agreements.
• Franchise contracts.
• General terms and conditions for contracts, purchase orders and online contracting.
• Advice in the field of corporate governance. Drafting of all of the company’s corporate and secretarial documentation regarding the Board of Directors.
• Advice for the administrative bodies in terms of the responsibility of board members and directors.
• Reorganisation and restructuring of groups of companies at a national and international level.
• Refinancing operations.

We analyse the following aspects of the business’ legal risks in collaboration with the management teams.

• Adaptation of management and organisational models for the implementation of systems for regulatory compliance and the prevention of crimes.
• Review of the company’s compatibility with regulations on the protection of personal data, the information society (e-commerce, online contracting) and legislation on competition.
• Process for designing, adapting or implementing organisational and criminal risk management models.
• Analysis of other risks related with the protection of personal data, e-commerce and competition law.
• Development of internal training programmes on the subject of regulatory compliance.

We advise companies and individuals in all kinds of litigation.

Our services in this area include among others:

• Contractual, tort and insurances. Product and professional liability.
• Negotiating out-of-court settlements and agreements as an alternative method for the resolution of disputes.
• Legal claims as plaintiffs or respondents, always striving to find the most satisfactory solutions to avoid disturbing company and private activities.
• Civil and commercial legal proceedings.
• Administrative-contentious legal proceedings.
• Appeals for legal protection.
• Execution of foreign judgements.
• Representation in institutional arbitration, under the different standards of the Spanish arbitration institutions, as well as ad hoc arbitration.
• Intervention in legal proceedings relating to arbitration, be it to appoint arbitrators, adopt injunctions or execute rulings.
• Advice in the contractual phase, evaluating the client’s position at the time of drafting the arbitration agreement and establishing the most appropriate institution in each case, as well as advice in the processing the arbitration of the ruling issued by the same, and advice relating to appeals for the annulment or review of arbitration rulings, or the recognition and implementation of foreign rulings.

• Planning and tax advice for companies and entrepreneurs.
• Tax advice on business and family assets and succession planning.
• Tax advice on real estate transactions.
• Tax advice in mergers and acquisitions and restructuring operations.
• Representation and defence in tax administrative verification proceedings.
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• Authorizations and concessions of public port domain
• Port terminals for containers, cruisers, general cargo and others
• Licenses for the provision of port services
• Claims of economic liability of Ports and Maritime Administrations
• Penalty proceedings to users of ports and during maritime navigation
• Abandonment of ships and pleasure boats
• Contracts of maritime, land and air transport
• Transportation insurance, damages and civil liability
• Extrajudicial and judicial advice to freight forwarders, consignees, transporters, and national and foreign insurers specialized in the transport sector and in maritime risks.
• Defence of non-payment of freight, damage or loss of merchandise, as well as delays in delivery and other conflicts before Courts and Arbitration Boards of Transportation
• Maritime accidents, damage to ships and cargo
• Damages due to pollution
• Damages and personal injuries
• Towage and maritime rescue
• General average
• Ship arrest and release and retention of vessels
• Applications and claims of Customs
• Claims of nautical law
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