Legal Services in Palma de Mallorca

Our services

• Immigration law

  All foreign nationals with dealings in Spain, whether economic, professional or social, as physical persons, are obliged to obtain a Foreign National Identification Number (N.I.E) for the purposes of identification. Legal persons must obtain a Tax Identification Number (N.I.F.). Our legal team will present the relevant documentation to the appropriate government departments in order to obtain an identification number on your behalf. We also assist foreign nationals wishing to obtain temporary or permanent residency permits in Spain, or to adopt Spanish nationality.
  

• Private International Law

  In this area of the law, our lawyers’ role is to determine which legislation, under the jurisdiction of which international court, is applicable to the civil and commercial matters in question. Our services include consultation through all the stages of a procedure to enforce, in Spain, a foreign judicial ruling, settlement or other foreign instrument capable of being enforced by the Spanish courts. Where an issue has an international dimension, we are obliged to apply the norms of Private International Law and, in particular, the regulations, directives and decisions of the European Union. In family and inheritance law, as well as in civil and commercial obligations and contracts, increasingly we are seeing the involvement of parties from different countries whose own legislation has to be taken into account. Anticipating and making allowances for the applicable legislation and the competent court we want to hear the action is therefore of paramount importance in this branch of the law. We draft covenants and agreements between the parties which enable us to choose which legislation will apply to their future relations. In this way, we adapt the choice of legislation to the concrete circumstances of each case in order to best serve the interests of the parties involved.
  

• Administritive law

  Our lawyers offer advice on the following: administrative penalty cases; drafting of allegations claims and appeals in response to administrative rulings; contested penalties; public procurement; asset liability resulting from the poor performance of public services; prior civil claims. We act in cases before the Contentious Administrative Court.
  

• Labour law

  We have a long tradition of consultation on labour relations and Social Security, acting in cases before the labour court on behalf of workers as well as companies. We advise on cases of dismissal, collective conflicts, contesting penalties, payment claims, contesting Social Security rulings, and acting in cases before the Labour Inspectorate. We are experienced in cases of Social Security benefits, incapacity and disability.
  

• Commercial law

  Our legal team is equally at home consulting on company and business law as defending the rights and interests of a client before the Commercial Court. We handle the incorporation of companies after an initial assessment to determine the legal denomination best suited to the client’s interests, drafting all the necessary documentation, such as company statutes and partnership agreements. We advise on the choice of the company’s organizational model: management board, sole administrator, joint and several directors, joint directors, or authorised agents; resolutions your company needs to adopt in order to achieve performance objectives, and whether these should be adopted by the administrative body or by the board of directors (or sole administrator) in their respective areas of competence; cases where the adoption of resolutions may have been against the company’s interests or where the company administrators have failed to fulfil their duties; cases of contesting company resolutions, and liability actions, brought by company or individual, against the management; cases of corporate restructuring, such as transformations, mergers, split-offs or global assignment of assets and liabilities, and increases and reductions in share capital; and cases of pre-insolvency, negotiating with creditors, drafting the appropriate documentation and providing assistance assisting throughout the insolvency proceedings. We act in other matters reserved for the Commercial Court such as proceedings related to brands and patents, or the seizure of ships.

• Civil law

  Our lawyers working in this field have extensive experience in the contentious area and are equally able to advise on many areas within the various specialisms of Civil Law, for example: contractual liability; property rights; payment claims; inheritance law; horizontal property and leasing; actions for recovery of ownership and possession; intellectual and industrial property law; the right to honour; recognition and enforcement of foreign rulings; mortgage foreclosures; claims related to complex financial products such as preferential shares, multi-currency mortgages, and umbrella policies; family proceedings including drafting of settlement agreements, separation and divorce proceedings, setting up and modification of maintenance arrangements, and cases of canonical annulment; property law; purchase option contracts; leasing; sale and leaseback; proceedings to establish ownership; reconstruction of chain of title; property transactions; land and urban property leasing; property litigation; property brokerage commissions claims; acceptance and division of inheritances; intestate inheritances; automatic entitlement actions; international probate; holiday contracts; distribution and franchise agreements; hotel management contracts and holiday litigation; liability claims for package holidays; tour operator and travel agency liability; claims related to guaranteed and non-guaranteed accommodation contracts; and timeshare disputes.

• Criminal law

  The partners are familiar with criminal law procedures in police, court and prison matters. We have extensive experience in assisting detainees; acting in briefing proceedings before the Public Prosecutor; advising at all stages of cases followed before the Criminal Court; consultation and legal assistance at pre-trial proceedings; consultation and defending (or prosecuting, where applicable) at trial; all manner of criminal actions and offences against persons, state property, public health, the Treasury (tax fraud), or spatial planning; punishable insolvency; fraud and misappropriation; improper management; defamation and misrepresentation; culpability in traffic accidents. We also advise on criminal liability of legal persons and compliance programmes designed to mitigate or even absolve a legal person of criminal liability.
  

• Prison law

  In a firm dedicated fundamentally to the practice of law before the law courts and in the sphere of the Criminal Court, we have to be able to count on lawyers who specialize in the complex area of Prison Law, which encompasses all proceedings related to the enforcement of custodial sentences and security and rights-restrictive measures, as well as the regulations that affect persons detained in prison. All our lawyers are experienced in working with the prison service, in classification of detainees, progression and regression (periodic review of degree of imprisonment), and applications for permits and transfers. We also advise on proceedings before the Prison Supervision Court.