Arbitration
- Legal advice on referring disputes to arbitration.
- Analysis, preparation and drafting of arbitration agreements and clauses.
- Representation as counsel in both domestic and international arbitration proceedings, whether institutional or ad hoc.
- Applications for the appointment of arbitrators.
- Interim measures prior to or during the conduct of arbitration proceedings.
- Enforcement of arbitral awards.
- Recognition and enforcement of foreign awards within the national framework.
- Applications for the setting aside of arbitral awards.
COMMERCIAL AND CORPORATE LITIGATION
- Comprehensive advice from the outset of the dispute and the pursuit of pre-litigation and litigation solutions.
- Management of disputes between partners, changes in the distribution of capital, loss of affectio societatis, separation and exclusion of partners (squeeze-out), and attendance at partners’ and shareholders’ meetings.
- Negotiation and challenge of shareholders’ agreements.
- Challenging corporate resolutions: annual accounts, appointment of directors, board resolutions, amendments to the articles of association.
- Directors’ liability (self-dealing, decisions contrary to the company’s interests, decisions detrimental to creditors).
- Intellectual and industrial property: actions for injunctions and damages; opposition and rectification proceedings before the various registries.
- Non-contentious proceedings for the convening of general meetings.
- Litigation in commercial contracts (agency, commission, brokerage, franchising, concession, distribution, sale, lease, deposit) Pre-litigation negotiation of contracts and representation and management of proceedings relating to contractual liability, nullity, termination and rescission of contracts.
CIVIL LITIGATION
- Comprehensive advice from the pre-litigation stage, representation and management in all types of proceedings, through to enforcement of judgments.
- Proceedings relating to non-contractual liability and damages.
- Legal management of proceedings arising from contracts, contractual liability, termination, nullity and rescission; and regarding the interpretation of contracts.
- Contractual liability in the context of consumers and users.
- Monetary and non-monetary enforcement proceedings and the enforcement of personal and real guarantees.
- Payment order and bill of exchange proceedings.
- Inheritance proceedings. Partition of the estate, actions for division, disputes between co-heirs, contestation and nullity of wills and testamentary dispositions, administration of the estate, life usufruct, gratuitous gifts, legacies, etc.
- Representation in proceedings concerning infringements of the rights to honour, privacy and personal image.
- Proceedings for nullity and liability arising from the marketing of financial products.
- Insurance proceedings relating to the performance, termination or interpretation of insurance contracts.
- Interim measures.
- Appeals on points of law and procedural infringements.
INSOLVENCY
- Advice to companies in crisis.
- Pre-insolvency phase, pre-insolvency proceedings, advance agreements and refinancing arrangements.
- Filing of voluntary insolvency petitions and advice on the necessary documentation.
- Advice on matters relating to the insolvent company’s assets, sale and contracting.
- Classification of the insolvency proceedings.
- Monitoring of the insolvency proceedings in their entirety: declaration, common phase, liquidation phase, and agreement implementation phase.
- Filing and defence of incidental claims.
- Advice to creditors.
- Advice on the documentation and application for compulsory insolvency proceedings.
- Handling of insolvency proceedings (actions for restitution, challenges to the list of creditors and the inventory, and insolvency rescission actions).
- Advice and negotiation to reach satisfactory agreements and arrangements.
- Assessment report.
- Liability of insolvency administrators and accountability.
ADMINISTRATIVE LITIGATION
- Specialists in appeals to the Supreme Court, challenges to general provisions and proceedings concerning the financial liability of the State.
- Mediation and out-of-court dispute resolution in the field of administrative litigation.
- Extensive experience in administrative litigation relating to public procurement, compulsory purchase, town and country planning, civil liability, agreements between public authorities, authorisations to enter premises, and electoral matters.
- Extensive experience in administrative litigation in regulated sectors and environmental matters.
- Proceedings for the protection of fundamental rights, issues of illegality and the prior suspension of local authority agreements.
- Development of procedural strategies through administrative channels to ensure the most appropriate approach to administrative litigation proceedings.
- Representation and defence of public sector entities (public business entities, public commercial companies, local authorities, etc.).