SERVICES TO COMPANIES

Legal and Fiscal Advising
   
Commercial and Company law
  - Ongoing or specific on all matters related to commercial law.
  - Incorporation of companies and other entities, Corporate and group reorganisations, transformations, mergers, spin-offs and dissolutions.
  - Acquisition and divestiture of companies, business concerns, enterprises and assets: Planning, due-diligence prodecures, negociations, document preparation and monitoring of agreements relating to acquisitions and divestitures.
  - Amendments of bylaws, special and control clauses in bylaws and vote-pooling agreements.
  - Design of control procedures to safeguard the liability of directors and administrators.
  - Contractual relationships among shareholders, investors, debtors and creditors.
  - Commercial agreements of all kinds, including sales, options, distribution, outsourcing, agency, franchise and research and development.
  - Legal secretaryship and compliance with the recurring formalities of company law.
  - Subsidiary audits.
   
Tax law
  - Tax planning and analysis of legislative changes.
  - Tax appeals, claims and inspections.
  - Taxation of nonresidents in Spain and of residents abroad.
  - Planning and advice on corporate group taxation.
  - Tax advice and planning for the transfer, acquisition and/or merger of assets, businesses and companies.
  - Advice on national and international double-taxation issues.
  - Tax analysis, planning and design for international groups and/or transfers.
   
Labor law
  - Ongoing advice regarding labor and employment law.
  - Negotiation, planning and design of collective bargaining and company agreements, changes to working conditions and geographical and functional mobility.
  - Advice, planning and implementation of general redundancy procedures.
  - Inspections, appeals and administrative claims relating to employment.
  - Representation before labor courts and administrative, litigious tribunals.
  - Advice on the design of key executive contracts.
  - Analysis and documentation of parachute clauses.
  - Advice on the prevention of industrial risk.
  - Labor law audits and the handling of possible contingencies.
  - Analysis of labor law implications on agreements involving outsourcing and franchising.
   
Litigation and Arbitration
  - Representation before civil or criminal courts.
  - Pre-litigation actions and lawsuits arising from contractual disputes.
  - Representation in arbitration proceedings.
  - Advice, planning and negotiation of receivership proceedings, creditors' arrangements and bankruptcies.
  - Actions taken in lawsuites arising from agency, license, concession, distribution and franchise contracts.
  - Lawsuites relating to industrial and intellectual property, unfair trade practices and advertising.
  - Advice and representation in corporate disputes.
   
Administrative law
  - Advice on the preparation of legislation in Administrative Law.
  - Contracting with the Administration and public services provided by Spanish and foreign companies, advising the bidders or the public entity on the drafting of the contract, the bidding process and performance of the contract.
  - Due Diligence procedures on companies with regard to administrative approvals, licenses and contracts.
  - Advice on applications for subsidies and aids both from the European Union and from the State.
  - Advice to companies on obtaining, transforming or changing licenses in regulated sectors and on their relations with the public entity.
  - Advice to companies and entities in the public sector in their relations with the Administration and with their contractors.
  - Advice and defence in administrative proceedings of any kind and in governmental and judicial appeals before courts and tribunals of all kinds and in all administrative-litigious proceedings.
   
Zoning and city planning law and Real State law
  - Consulting on questions of planning discipline, including those relating to planning and construction works, particularly arising form works and business licenses, cases of ruin, enforcement orders, specific cases of protection or association, penalizing and regularization procedures.
  - Due diligence procedures in the acquisition of land, buildings and industries and issuance of reports on the classification and zoning of land, uses, types and intensity of builiding, sectors, distribution areas, the regime of assingments and usages, encumbrances, links and the legal obligations of and duties assumed by landowners.
  - Examination of the legal status of real property for purchase and sale transactions, flotations, financing, business reorganizations, etc.
  - Legal advice on the purchase and sale and promotion of real property (offices, industrial buildings, hotels, shopping centers, leisure parks, rural and urban property, etc), declarations of new buildings, preparation of condominium bylaws, etc
  - Legal advice on the purchase and sale of real estate companies.
  - Advice and negotiation of agreements for the lease, agency, administration and management of real estate (hotels, shopping centers, etc)
   
Industrial and Intellectual property law
  - General, specific or ongoing advice on industrial and intellectual property matters.
  - Preparation of contracts relating to industrial and intellectual property.
  - Advertising contracts.
  - Prior advice on advertising campaigns.
  - Audit of the legal status of trademarks and other industrial and intellectual property rights.
   
Environment law
  - Preparation of draft legislation and legal reports for the different public authorities.
  - Advice and defense of companies in criminal, civil or administrative proceedings.
  - Environmental diagnoses and audits.
  - Legal advice in the sale and purchase of companies and land.
  - Processing of licenses for new plants.
  - Advice and processing of procedures relating to aids and subsidies.
  - Ongoing legal advice and updating of new legislation and case law on the environment.
   
Family businesses
  Legal
 
  - Legal counselling on succession planning and gift-related issues.
  - Integral assistance in the process of analyzing, implementing and following up wills in Spain.
  - Analysis of the most suitable corporate vehicles based on the ends desired.
  - Counselling on the drafting of bylaws that are tailored to the needs of the shareholders.
  - Counselling on the preparation of shareholders' agreements and on the regulation of the relationship between a company and its shareholders.
  - Formation of foundations, not-for-profit associations, etc.
  - Legal assistance in processes to sell or purchase Family Businesses.
  Tax
 
  - Analysis and planning of the tax burden when creating, maintaining and distributing wealth, from a personal and/or business standpoint.
  - Analysis and optimization of the different taxes that affect family businesses.
  - Planning for wealth, inheritance and gift tax purposes.
  - Global specialist counselling for high net worth families.
  - Counselling for family businesses that operate internationally.
  Consulting
 
  - Planning in the stewardship process.
  - Analysis and implementation of optimal family business structures.
  - Reorganization processes for family businesses.
  - Acquisitions and due diligences reviews of family businesses.
  - Counselling on the design, development and execution of family agreements.
  - Counselling on areas that might be included in a family agreement including:
 
  - Family board meetings.
  - Family members joining the business.
  - Share transfer restrictions.
  - Composition of managing bodies.

 

Financial Advicing
Analysis and financial management.
Audit of accounts.
Countable revision.
Advising and mediating in the transaction of companies.
Advising in renewals energies.
Financing of projects.