Juridical services

Legal counselling on contracting all kinds of services and banking products and operations (factoring, leasing, confirming, renting, credit cards, mortgage and consumer financing). Preventive advice and judicial and extrajudicial claiming. Specialized in negotiating agreements and solutions with bank entities, as well as in claiming before the Bank of Spain.

In our team we count on an expert lawyer who is specialised in legal action against financial institutions in situations in which reaching an agreement is not possible and there are some infringements of applicable regulations, abuses and bad banking practices or improper commercialisation or acquisition of a product (by way of example, preferred shares, SWAPS, mortgage floor clauses, unfair contract terms, in lieu of payment, etc.).

Economic and financial advice, executing the following tasks:

― Analysis of the economic and financial situation of companies.
― Economic and Financial Reports for Boards of Directors and for Partners and Shareholders (Ownership).
― Analysis and design of Dashboards within the economic and financial field.
― Formalization of policies for financial restructuring. Definition of policies for working capital management and financial planning.
― Design of actions to achieve asset rebalancing.
― Formalization of viability plans.
― Preparation of bankruptcy proceedings.
― Analysis of the profitability of projects.
― Preparation of redundancy and dismissal schemes.
― Accounting advice.
― Company Valuation.

LABOUR CONTRACTS, WAGES AND SOCIAL SECURITY
Recurrent labour advice in:

– Employment Agreements (drafting of all types of contracts, special clauses) and their extensions and their official registration;
– Faults and penalties (preparation, drafting and delivering of sanction letters);
– Inquiries and analysis related to collective agreements; geographical and functional mobility and other substantial changes in working conditions;
– Inquiries related to eventual labour inspections.
– Calculation of severance pay.
– Advice on contributions to Social Security and information on applicable incentives or benefits derived from employment;
– Previous Claims on Social Security matters.

Special labour advice on:

– Drafting letters of disciplinary and objective dismissal. Individual dismissals.
– Implementation of collective substantial changes to employment contracts.
– Development of corporate policies and internal protocols, as well as equality plans, training plans, etc.
– Remuneration systems. Design of remuneration policies.
– Negotiation and drafting of special employment agreements.

LABOUR MANAGEMENT
The services provided are the following:

− Dealing with employee’s registration with the General Treasury of the Social Security and opening of new working centres
− In and out employees’ registration, employment agreements, extensions as well as contractual modifications.
− Management through Contrat@ system.
− Control of expiry dates of agreements.
− Company certificates for dealing with several employment benefits, unemployment, maternity, paternity, Temporary Incapacity direct payment, retirement as well as their managing process.
− Dealing with illness and accidents notes. Management and communication of occupational accidents.
− Management of Temporary Incapacity notes.
− Application of the Collective Agreement of the sector: study of wage updates, etc.
− Preparation of salaries. Preparation of monthly payslips and settlements as well as delivery of encrypted payslips by e-mail to the responsible person, with the option to include the logo and / or official seal of the company.
− Drafting of Social Security bulletins.
− Delivery of files related to remuneration concepts paid.
− Bank remittance files.
− Monthly preparation of accounting summary of salary cost allocation (via Excel).
− Monthly social insurance management, CRETA, files of remuneration concepts paid.
− Filing of Model 111 monthly / quarterly and annual summary, filing of Model 190.
− Delivery of certificate of deductions on employment income to the beneficiaries.
− Recurrent inquiries and information regarding the Statute of Workers and current labour legislation.

REDUNDANCY AND DISMISSAL SCHEMES (Spanish ERE)
Legal counselling and managing on any operation involving collective redundancies in employment regulation schemes.

LABOUR LITIGATION (CONCILIATION)
Counselling, legal assistance and cooperation by means of the appearance before the CMAC, the Labour and Social Security Inspectorate (either ex officio or upon complaint).

SENIOR EXECUTIVE MANAGEMENT
Negotiating and drafting contracts of senior executive management personnel. Agreements, special agreements, protection and non-competition clauses, inclusion within the organizational structure of the company, removal of senior managers, etc.

COLLECTIVE AGREEMENTS
Legal advice and participation in Collective Negotiation and Collective Bargaining Agreements and Conventions.

RESTRUCTURING
Legal counselling from the point of view of labour law on both commercial and insolvency restructuring operations and corporate reorganization, which may entail personnel downsizing, collective dismissals or collective suspensions and reductions in working hours. Bankruptcy Files. Collective relocations. Labour and Social Security audit.

HUMAN RESOURCES
For the purpose of being able to offer a service more innovative and closer to the company’s own needs, we provide you with the possibility to delegate in ourselves the direct management of the tasks detailed below. In this way, you shall be able to be released from the internal workload by reducing personnel costs in the Human Resources department. This module shall be budgeted adapted and performed individually according to every business and company needs.

Services offered are the following:

− Personnel selection, letters of recommendation, etc.
− Training and assessment of positions for task optimization: job description, attribution of responsibility.
− Assessment of the performance: for decision-making regarding the conditions of the personnel such as need for new recruitment, job changes, etc.
− Flexible remuneration policies.
− Cost allocation tailored to specific business needs.
− Preparation of employees’ payslips and delivery of encrypted payslips by e-mail to the responsible person, with the option to include the logo and / or official seal of the company.
− Preparation of bank remittance.
− Delivery of payslips by email and directly to employees.
− Direct service to employees in resolving eventual incidents on their payslips.
− Management of direct payment of overtime, sales commissions, allowances, travel costs, advance payments, seizures, etc.
− Direct payment to individual employees of their salaries by means of configuring the remittance file for further management by the bank entity.
− Planning flexible remuneration within the company frame: medical insurance, restaurant tickets, rental housing, vehicle
− Stock options payment
− Performance of personalized costs imputation to the eventual needs of the company: internal communication circuits, SAP, etc.
− Annual preparation of the labour calendar of the company and working centres.
− Planning of the different ordinary and weekend working shifts
− Direct control of absence rates: holiday, paid and unpaid leaves, temporary incapacity processes, suspension of employment agreement for maternity leave or unpaid leave or employment regulation schemes (ERE)
− Direct care of employees in signing their employment agreements, extensions, shift changes, relocations, etc.
− Management of disciplinary and dismissal proceedings, with direct notice to the affected employee/s
− Control on maturity dates of compulsory agreement insurance policies
− Supervision of the proper performance of health surveillance and prevention activities in occupational safety and health at work
− Administrative management of all formalities being necessary for the employees to have access to external centres, contracts, subcontracts through the several portals: B2B (UCAGECI), virtual office of the Social Security, etc.

IMMIGRATION LAW/EXPATRIATES
Legal counselling on international movements of workers (labour and social security aspects).

FAMILY

Separation, divorce and annulment procedures. Judicial and mutually agreed procedures. Lawful unions. Matrimonial property and its liquidation. Negotiating pre-nuptial agreements. Parenthood. Care and custody of minors, parental authority and visiting regulations. provisional and definitive measures, its modification and execution.

INHERITANCE

Testate and intestate successions, inheritance management, Wills, Legitimacy. Agreements as to succession. Declaration of intestate heirs. Awarding and distribution of the estate. Testamentary execution reports. Challenge to testamentary dispositions.

DISABILITY

Legal counselling and managing of proceedings for legal incapacitation. Care institutions. Measures to protect the incapacitate property.

REAL ESTATE

Legal counselling on all types of real estate transactions; in the strategy planning and design, negotiation, purchase, promotion, financing, management and sale. Real estate investment. Construction law; works contracts. Residential and Commercial Lease agreements. Joint ownership, community estate. Division of commonly owned estate. Horizontal property. Claims arising from construction.

MORTGAGE AND LAND REGISTER LAW

Legal counselling on mortgage agreements, subrogation, cancellations and renegotiations. Domain records or property claims and cancellation of land charges with the register.

CIVIL CONTRACTING MATTERS

Legal counselling and drafting of all kinds of contracts and agreements in civil matters: sale and purchase agreements, donation, lease agreements on goods, work and services, management and custody agreements, financing and guarantee, associative agreements, random contracts and transaction agreements and arbitration. Mandate contract, contract of representation. All claims arising from said contracts or agreements.

CIVIL LIABILITY

Claims and defence for contractual and non-contractual liability.

CONSUMERS AND USERS

Advice and defence in all kinds of processes related to consumers’ and users’ rights and its defence. Product liability. Advertising.

CLAIMS FOR PAYMENT

Management and prevention of debt and default in payment. Design of an action protocol against defaults; out-of-court and judicial management of payment defaults; Mediation, negotiation and drafting of out-of-court settlement agreements.

TRAFFIC LAW

Compensation claims by judicial and extrajudicial means. Defence of the rights of the injured.

LABOUR CONTRACTS, WAGES AND SOCIAL SECURITY
Recurrent labour advice in:

– Employment Agreements (drafting of all types of contracts, special clauses) and their extensions and their official registration;
– Faults and penalties (preparation, drafting and delivering of sanction letters);
– Inquiries and analysis related to collective agreements; geographical and functional mobility and other substantial changes in working conditions;
– Inquiries related to eventual labour inspections.
– Calculation of severance pay.
– Advice on contributions to Social Security and information on applicable incentives or benefits derived from employment;
– Previous Claims on Social Security matters.

Special labour advice on:

– Drafting letters of disciplinary and objective dismissal. Individual dismissals.
– Implementation of collective substantial changes to employment contracts.
– Development of corporate policies and internal protocols, as well as equality plans, training plans, etc.
– Remuneration systems. Design of remuneration policies.
– Negotiation and drafting of special employment agreements.

LABOUR MANAGEMENT
The services provided are the following:

− Dealing with employee’s registration with the General Treasury of the Social Security and opening of new working centres
− In and out employees’ registration, employment agreements, extensions as well as contractual modifications.
− Management through Contrat@ system.
− Control of expiry dates of agreements.
− Company certificates for dealing with several employment benefits, unemployment, maternity, paternity, Temporary Incapacity direct payment, retirement as well as their managing process.
− Dealing with illness and accidents notes. Management and communication of occupational accidents.
− Management of Temporary Incapacity notes.
− Application of the Collective Agreement of the sector: study of wage updates, etc.
− Preparation of salaries. Preparation of monthly payslips and settlements as well as delivery of encrypted payslips by e-mail to the responsible person, with the option to include the logo and / or official seal of the company.
− Drafting of Social Security bulletins.
− Delivery of files related to remuneration concepts paid.
− Bank remittance files.
− Monthly preparation of accounting summary of salary cost allocation (via Excel).
− Monthly social insurance management, CRETA, files of remuneration concepts paid.
− Filing of Model 111 monthly / quarterly and annual summary, filing of Model 190.
− Delivery of certificate of deductions on employment income to the beneficiaries.
− Recurrent inquiries and information regarding the Statute of Workers and current labour legislation.

REDUNDANCY AND DISMISSAL SCHEMES (Spanish ERE)
Legal counselling and managing on any operation involving collective redundancies in employment regulation schemes.

LABOUR LITIGATION (CONCILIATION)
Counselling, legal assistance and cooperation by means of the appearance before the CMAC, the Labour and Social Security Inspectorate (either ex officio or upon complaint).

SENIOR EXECUTIVE MANAGEMENT
Negotiating and drafting contracts of senior executive management personnel. Agreements, special agreements, protection and non-competition clauses, inclusion within the organizational structure of the company, removal of senior managers, etc.

COLLECTIVE AGREEMENTS
Legal advice and participation in Collective Negotiation and Collective Bargaining Agreements and Conventions.

RESTRUCTURING
Legal counselling from the point of view of labour law on both commercial and insolvency restructuring operations and corporate reorganization, which may entail personnel downsizing, collective dismissals or collective suspensions and reductions in working hours. Bankruptcy Files. Collective relocations. Labour and Social Security audit.

HUMAN RESOURCES
For the purpose of being able to offer a service more innovative and closer to the company’s own needs, we provide you with the possibility to delegate in ourselves the direct management of the tasks detailed below. In this way, you shall be able to be released from the internal workload by reducing personnel costs in the Human Resources department. This module shall be budgeted adapted and performed individually according to every business and company needs.

Services offered are the following:

− Personnel selection, letters of recommendation, etc.
− Training and assessment of positions for task optimization: job description, attribution of responsibility.
− Assessment of the performance: for decision-making regarding the conditions of the personnel such as need for new recruitment, job changes, etc.
− Flexible remuneration policies.
− Cost allocation tailored to specific business needs.
− Preparation of employees’ payslips and delivery of encrypted payslips by e-mail to the responsible person, with the option to include the logo and / or official seal of the company.
− Preparation of bank remittance.
− Delivery of payslips by email and directly to employees.
− Direct service to employees in resolving eventual incidents on their payslips.
− Management of direct payment of overtime, sales commissions, allowances, travel costs, advance payments, seizures, etc.
− Direct payment to individual employees of their salaries by means of configuring the remittance file for further management by the bank entity.
− Planning flexible remuneration within the company frame: medical insurance, restaurant tickets, rental housing, vehicle
− Stock options payment
− Performance of personalized costs imputation to the eventual needs of the company: internal communication circuits, SAP, etc.
− Annual preparation of the labour calendar of the company and working centres.
− Planning of the different ordinary and weekend working shifts
− Direct control of absence rates: holiday, paid and unpaid leaves, temporary incapacity processes, suspension of employment agreement for maternity leave or unpaid leave or employment regulation schemes (ERE)
− Direct care of employees in signing their employment agreements, extensions, shift changes, relocations, etc.
− Management of disciplinary and dismissal proceedings, with direct notice to the affected employee/s
− Control on maturity dates of compulsory agreement insurance policies
− Supervision of the proper performance of health surveillance and prevention activities in occupational safety and health at work
− Administrative management of all formalities being necessary for the employees to have access to external centres, contracts, subcontracts through the several portals: B2B (UCAGECI), virtual office of the Social Security, etc.

IMMIGRATION LAW/EXPATRIATES
Legal counselling on international movements of workers (labour and social security aspects).

Our firm counts on lawyers who are specialised in different areas of law with a wide experience in legal advice to companies being active in the sectors described below. These lawyers combine the technical and legal expertise with an extensive knowledge and experience in these sectors, which involves the ability to offer a complete legal advice of the best and highest quality.

FOOD INDUSTRY
Extensive experience in providing legal advice to clients within the food industry, at all stages of the production and distribution chain of these products, both in the recurrent advice during the daily activity, as in legal advice on operations or specific issues. By way of example, advice on sale and purchase of goods or equipment, renting or purchase of commercial facilities, trademark licensing, product liability, packaging and labelling, advertising and consumer law and data protection, contracts & agreements related to production, commercialisation and distribution, promotion, storage and transport of products. Likewise, counselling services in administrative, intellectual property, out-of-court negotiations and judicial proceedings.

CONSUMPTION AND RETAIL
Specialists in multidisciplinary advice in all matters of the agents involved in the sector, both recurrent advice in daily ordinary activity and advice on particular operations or specific topics. The counselling may be related to any issue arising within the scope of the activity described. By way of example, within the field of corporate law, restructuring, commercial agreements, real estate law (sale and lease of facilities, business transfer or licensing and execution of works), urban law (license management), banking law (revision of loan and credit agreements, mortgages and guarantees), consumer law and data protection, intellectual and industrial property rights (protection of trademarks, domain names, etc.), arbitration and court proceedings and tax and labour law (both recurrent advice and tax planning, financing as well as recruiting and dismissal of employees and managers, social security issues).

FAMILY BUSINESS
Full legal advice to business families in order to ensure the continuity of their business project and manage to preserve the heritage property. This legal counselling shall consist of, inter alia, negotiation, drafting and execution of family protocols and agreements between partners; drafting of regulations of the board of directors or the family council; reorganization of family assets and tax planning; planning of heritage property succession; legal advice on the corporate restructuring within the group of family businesses; Company and family members tax planning; prevention and conflict resolution; support and assistance in the professionalisation of the family business.

NON-PROFIT ORGANISATIONS
Lawyers specialised in counselling to foundations and non-profit organizations, with a comprehensive knowledge of applicable law. Our legal advice ranges from their incorporation, support in the daily management of these entities and the development of their business, tax and labour issues until their dissolution and extinction.

INSURANCES
Legal counselling on the field of Insurance Law, especially in the drafting and interpretation of insurance agreements, dealing with complaints and executing judicial proceedings within the national scope related to insurance and pension funds matters. Tax advice.