1. Labor and Employment Law
A) Labor Advice and Regulatory Compliance:
Advice on labor legislation: Ensure compliance with current regulations.
Drafting of internal policies and regulations: Codes of conduct, employee manuals, privacy policies, etc.
Equality plans: Design and implementation of plans to promote gender equity.
Labour relations management: Advice on negotiations with unions or workers' representatives.
2. Criminal and Economic Criminal Law
A) Preventive Advice (Criminal Compliance Programs)
Design and implementation of Criminal Compliance Programs: Create and implement crime prevention systems within companies to reduce or eliminate their criminal liability. This includes the development of ethical codes, internal policies, reporting channels and criminal risk matrices.
Compliance Audits: Evaluate the effectiveness and sufficiency of existing compliance programs.
Training and awareness: Train managers, employees and governing bodies on economic criminal risks and compliance policies.
Recurring advice to Compliance Bodies and Boards of Directors: Provide continuous legal support in the management of criminal risks and decision-making.
Due Criminal Diligence: Perform criminal risk analysis in corporate operations (mergers, acquisitions, etc.).
B) Advice on Criminal and Economic Criminal Litigation
Crimes against property and socio-economic order: Scams (including computer science), misappropriation, disloyal administration, theft of property/frustration of execution, punishable insolvency, crimes relating to intellectual and industrial property, crimes against consumers, documentary falsehoods.
Corporate Crimes: Falsehood of annual accounts, imposition of abusive agreements, denial of rights of partners, fraudulent administration.
Crimes against the Public Treasury and Social Security: Fiscal Crime/Tax Fraud, Crime against Social Security.
Crimes of Money Laundering and Financing Terrorism.
Corruption Crimes: Bribery (bribery), influence peddling, embezzlement of public funds, prevarication, corruption in private businesses.
Crimes related to the stock market (stock market crimes).
Crimes against the environment and urban planning (when they have an economic/business aspect).
Crimes against workers' rights (in their economic criminal aspect).
Assistance in police and judicial headquarters: Accompaniment from the first investigation procedures.
Design of procedural strategies: Develop the best legal strategy for each case, looking for optimal solutions (agreements, defense in court, recommendation of representation, etc.).
(C) Internal Investigations
Conducting internal investigations: Direct or advise on internal investigations of companies in the face of indications of the commission of economic crimes by employees, managers or third parties. This is crucial for prevention and for the possible mitigation of the criminal liability of the legal person.
Preparation of reports and recommendations: Document the findings and propose corrective measures.
D) Advice in Crisis Situations
Reputational crisis management: Advise on the management of communication and public relations in crisis situations derived from accusations or investigations for economic crimes.
Pre-litigation strategic planning: Develop strategies to avoid litigation or position the client in the best way if the legal dispute is unavoidable.
E) Cooperation and Advice on International Affairs
Cases with cross-border implications: Advise on economic criminal proceedings involving various jurisdictions and international regulations.
F) Recovery of assets
Location and recovery of assets: Advise for the recovery of assets obtained through criminal activities (e.g. in cases of fraud or money laundering).
3. Civil law
A) Family and Succession Law
Marriage and De Facto Unions:
Premarital agreements and marital capitulations.
Advice and management of de facto unions.
Separations and Divorces:
Divorces by mutual agreement and litigation.
Liquidation of the matrimonial property regime (marital partnership, separation of property).
Regulation of the custody and custody of minors, visitation regime and alimony.
Modification of definitive measures.
Affiliation:
Claim and challenge of paternity.
Guardianship and Curatorship:
Constitution and management of guardianships or curatorships for people with judicially modified capacity.
Successions and Inheritances:
Advice on the drafting of wills and last wills.
Declaration of heirs (ab intestato).
Acceptance and partition of inheritances, including the negotiation and resolution of conflicts between co-heirs.
Challenge of wills.
B) Law of Obligations and Contracts
Advice and Drafting of Contracts:
Contracts for sale (movable and immovable property).
Lease contracts (housing, business premises, rustic).
Loan contracts.
Service contracts.
Construction contracts.
Exchange contracts.
Atypical and complex contracts.
Analysis and Review of Contracts:
Study of abusive clauses.
Contractual interpretation.
Contractual Breach:
Debt claim.
Termination of contracts for non-compliance.
Forced execution of contracts.
Compensation for damages.
C) Property Law and Real Rights
Real Estate:
Advice on the sale of real estate (study of loads, sanitation).
Problems of boundaries, servitudes, usufruct.
Actions of defense of the property (revindicatory, declaration of domain).
Horizontal Property:
Advice to communities of owners and property managers.
Challenge of Community agreements.
Claim of unpaid fees.
Possession:
Possessive actions (interdicts).
D) Civil Liability (Right of Damages)
Contractual Responsibility:
Derived from the breach of a contract.
Non-contractual liability (Aquiliana):
Traffic accidents (claim for compensation).
Falls on public roads or establishments.
Damage caused by animals.
Professional responsibility (medical, architects, etc.).
Responsibility for defective products.
E) Judicial Proceedings and Arbitration
Recommendation to Associate Law Firm in the following:
Declarative procedures (ordinary and verbal).
Enforcement procedures (debts, mortgages).
Special procedures (family, disability).
Appeals (appeal, cassation).
Recommendation to Associate Mediator in the following:
Advice and representation in mediation processes to resolve conflicts without going to trial.
Intervention in arbitration proceedings as an alternative to the judicial process.
F) Other Complementary Services
Notary and Registry:
Preparation of documents for public deeds.
Recommendation of associated managers for procedures in the Property, Commercial and Civil Registries.
General Advice:
Specific consultations on any aspect of Civil Law.
Drafting of burofaxes, extrajudicial requests.