Litigation and Trial Practice

Our litigation lawyers provide advice on dispute resolution to a wide range of clients worldwide.

Litigation in Spain is one of our core services. Our litigation team regularly assists large corporates, private companies, partnerships and private individuals with legal issues or matters such as:

Commercial litigation
Contract claims
Professional negligence
Agency disputes
Banking and financial services disputes
Contentious insolvency
Partnership disputes
Product liability
Group litigation
Foreign debt recovery
Intellectual Property litigation
Arbitration

When negotiating a contract, we advise our clients, in the most appropriate manner, introducing tailored litigation clauses and on the pros and cons of using ADR (arbitration, mediation) or traditional litigation. For the cases that do not go to trial, our extensive trial experience and shrewd negotiating skills result in the best settlements.

We partner with our clients to manage risk and to avoid litigation wherever is possible; when is unavoidable, our team focuses on the commercial objectives of clients, while assessing legal, commercial and reputational risk. We analyse the negotiating weaknesses of opponents and devises optimum procedural tactics or creative settlement approaches for reaching the required success.

Working with our litigators, you benefit from a unique advantage, acceding specialists that Alliuris network provides in all kind of litigation all over the world. Thanks to joining the Alliuris network , we are one of the few firms capable of providing clients with immediate, high-quality legal expertise anywhere in the world, whether our client´s needs are local or multijurisdictional.

Our areas of expertise within the Corporate & M&A practice include:

Our Corporate & M&A team advices our clients (domestic and multinational companies and groups) on corporate matters through every stage of the company life cycle, from its incorporation to its winding-up, providing day to day advice and ensuring that the company complies with any applicable legal and regulatory requirement.

Our expertise includes legal support in the incorporation of companies, branches and other legal entities and day to day corporate advice (like amendment of by-laws; share capital increases and decreases, appointment of directors and other representatives, etc.)

Our Corporate & M&A team has also wide experience advising boards of directors on corporate governance compliance, remuneration policies for directors and directors’ responsibilities. Our advice also includes providing company’s secretarial services to board of directors (either by giving support to the company or acting as Secretary nonmember to the Board).

To learn how to incorporate a company in Spain, you may download our Free Incorporation Guide, which contains useful information as regards legal steps to be followed, costs involved, tax implications, and much more.

Our Corporate & M&A group has extensive experience in drafting and negotiating all kinds of national and international commercial contracts and arrangements with the aim of supporting our clients’ day to day business activities.

Our lawyers advice both clients and suppliers in a wide range of areas of commercial contracts such as distribution, agency, franchising, supply, manufacturing, licensing, R&D, e-commerce, outsourcing, marketing, etc.

Our Corporate & M&A lawyers are experts in the design and implementation of national and cross-border Mergers & Acquisition transactions advising buyers, sellers, the target company or its directors in a wide range of industries, including those that are highly regulated.

Our M&A Firm’s activity covers the design and implementation in all types of M&A deals at all their stages including:

· Advice during the preliminary stage: negotiation of Offer Letters, MoUs, confidentiality agreements, etc.

· Counselling in investment and divestment processes: drafting and negotiating contracts regarding the acquisition or sale of companies, businesses and assets; drafting and negotiating Shareholders Agreements and other ancillary contracts.

· Executing mergers and spin-offs, both between companies of the same group and between independent companies.

The close work of our Corporate & M&A lawyers together with financial experts of our firm allows us to address all legal requirements arisen from this kind of transactions.

· Performance of the Due Diligence of the target company.

Our Corporate & M&A lawyers advice on a full range of corporate reorganizations and restructurings, by planning and implementing the most suitable corporate structures, in many cases with significant multi-jurisdictional aspects, and drafting and negotiating the related corporate documentation.

Our Corporate & M&A team has also experience in the design, negotiation and implementation of joint venture agreements and strategic alliances both at domestic and international level. Our experience in cross-border transactions allow us assisting our clients in the choice of the most suitable vehicle and other complex factors like choice of law and jurisdiction.

Our Corporate & M&A team advices on incorporating and defining the legal structure of venture capital funds and other similar investments vehicles. We also assist them on all the subsequent stages of their lifecycle, helping them through their investments and divestments processes (LBOs, MBOs, BIMBOs, etc.).