Derecho mercantil

Commercial law and contracts. Taxation. Corporate compliance.

Corporate restructuring operations

  • Constitution of limited liability companies, subsidiaries, agencies and delegations, M&A, spin-offs, transfers of assets with tax incentives.
  • Definition, negotiation and management of Financial and Legal Due Diligences in buying or selling transactions.
  • Management of the legal issues of the boards of directors. Legal advise to the board of directors.
  • Companies’ increase and decrease in capital. Economic and financial rebalancing corporate operations.
  • Group restructuring processes for tax and liability optimization.
  • Incorporation of Joint Ventures and other legal temporary partnerships (UTE, EIG, EEIG, etc.).

Consulting, representation, negotiation and drafting of national and international commercial agreements

  • Consulting and/or negotiation, definition and drafting of commercial and financial contracts and agreements, access to public and private venture capital, leasing, acquisition, protection and transfer of intellectual and industrial property, et.
  • Commercial litigation and arbitration.

Business crisis

  • Pre-insolvency proceedings (debt refinancing, negotiation and drafting creditors’ agreement).
  • Insolvency proceedings consultancy (legal direction of legal insolvency proceedings as creditors, debtor or any concerned third party).
  • Negotiation with institutional creditors.

Corporate Compliance

  • Identification, prevention, implementation and management of procedures and good practices to identify, classify and mitigate operational and legal risks arising from their activity.
  • Design of compliance strategies to prevent risks arising from the staff’s activity (criminal liability, reputational damage, fines and penalties, business losses due to non-compliance with customer standards or limiting access to public and private open call for tenders or public subsidies).

Labour relations and collective bargaining

Advice and support in negotiating with Unions and legal labor representatives

  • Participation in collective bargaining and advice to management. Draw up drafts for negotiation and relationship with Labor authority.
  • Strategy, negotiation and execution of collective labor procedures (collective agreements, working conditions’ modification, Lay-off procedures, etc…).
  • Interlocution with the Labor Administration in the procedures for modifying working conditions, ERE, ERTE.
  • Processing of disciplinary and labor procedures in general.

Administrative and judicial procedures related with the labor force

  • Individual and collective legal dunning proceedings (in-court settlements).
  • Out of court settlements (mediation procedures, et.).

Promotion of investments and relationships with financial administration and operators

Representation and communication with local, regional and national public administration

  • Access to financing mechanisms to promote business investment in the territory, intermediation with local, regional and national government. Grant management to investors.
  • Administrative proceeding: administrative concessions and regulated sectors (mining, hydrocarbon, energy concessions, telecommunication licenses, etc.).

Administrative, in-court and arbitration proceedings

  • Objections to administrative decisions in industrial and business activities (operation and taxation related).

Support to business settlement and start-ups

Backing the process of designing, growth, financing and business exits

  • Legal, financial and taxation scenarios for the decision-making process in setting up business projects.
  • Interlocution with public and private agents in the regional, national or international level to support, mentoring  and financing projects in all rounds or phases.