ARPA Abogados Consultores, despacho de Abogados en Pamplona, San Sebastián y Valladolid

CIVIL AREA

In regards to civil matters, either in defending the interests of our clients, or in the processing of particularly complex proceedings, our procedures are:

• Claims Quantity: In these types of proceedings, both declarative and executive procedures are included (enforcement of judgments, bills of exchange, checks or credit notes, deeds of mortgage loans, credit insurance, etc.).
• Bankruptcy Law: Within this field, the performance of our professionals should be highlighted in Bankruptcy proceedings, either as advisors or as creditors. This is an area of great complexity, making it preferable to obtain the advice of experienced professionals, in which our lawyers serve the clients with:
  • The bankruptcy application, whether voluntary or required/mandatory.
  • The determination and challenges of tangible and intangible assets of the bankruptcy.
  • The negotiation and drafting of agreements.
  • The demand for civil and criminal liabilities.
  • The course of judicial proceedings.
• Damages and Tort/ Civil Liability Law: Within this area, all the disputes that may arise from civil liability are included, whether these are implicit in the contract or implied.
• Real Estate and Construction Law: Construction defects claims, breaches of contract, settlement of sales/purchases.
• Company Law: Challenges to corporate agreements, liability actions before management, competitions.
• Competition Law: Actions under international treaties and international regulations, Act on Protection of Competition, Law on Unfair Competition.
• Intellectual Property Law: Challenges to rights, violation of agreements, cessation of infringements.
• Distribution and Agency Law: Resolution of agency or distribution agreements, quantity claims, violation of competition prohibitions.

CONTENTIOUS-ADMINISTRATIVE AREA

In this area, our lawyers handle and defend the rights of our clients during administrative proceedings and during the subsequent actions made before the contentious-administrative jurisdiction. Among other issues, this advice is common in the following areas:

• Taxes and Taxation: Tax inspections, tax return.
• Urban planning: Processing licenses, challenges to urban agreements, expropriation files, breaches urban planning, sanctions, restoration of urban legality.
• Local Government: Challenges to municipal agreements, infringement proceedings, license processing, trade reviews, detrimental statements, land registry, public property, local taxes, corporations’ operation, public services.
• Public Tenders: Resources in the award of public tenders, challenges to any of the clauses.
• Infringement proceedings: environment, urban planning, health, movement.
• Property liability of the administration.
• Civil Service: Disciplinary records, salaries, organic work groups, access, administrative issues.
• Data Protection: Proceedings before the Spanish Agency of Data Protection.
• Public subsidies: Refunds, diminishing returns.
• Expropriations.

LABOUR ORDER

Within the employment areas, our professionals offer their services in the following areas:

• Layoffs/redundancies and penalties.
• Functional and geographical mobility.
• Rights’ claim for declaratory judgment.
• Quantity claims.
• Processes of substantial change in working conditions.
• Professional classification/evaluation.
• Employment contracts.
• Corporate subrogation.
• Illegal assignment of workers.
• Holidays and working times.
• Collective proceedings.
• Court proceedings related to Social Security: Retirements and disabilities.
• Challenges to administrative acts in the contentious-administrative area.

CRIMINAL

A comprehensive advice of a company cannot lack the criminal sphere; nowadays it is essential to have perceptive advice in this field, where preventive management is the best service that can be offered. Amongst other areas, ARPA Lawyers Consultants is involved in the following issues:

• Corporate compliance
• Economic and Criminal Law (tax related offenses).
• Criminal and Property Law (robberies, thefts, burglaries, frauds).
• Corporate Criminal Law (corporate crimes, offenses against the market and consumers, offenses against the industrial and intellectual property).
• Crimes against Persons, Intimacy and Honor.
• Environmental Crimes.
• Homicides and Trials before a Jury.
• Offenses against the Public Administration/Public Bodies.
• Legal advice and assistance to Municipalities, Local Authorities and Public Services in general, with respect to the allegations that may be made against its authorities and staff during the course of their work/activity.

ARBITRATION

Finally, ARPA Lawyers Consultants provides services in the field of conflict resolution before the all-existing arbitration bodies.