Expert Lawyers in Public and Regulatory law

• Procedures required to obtain administrative authorisations and concessions, as well as those relating to public property, ensuring full compliance with regulations in order to achieve favourable outcomes.
• Representing companies and organisations in disciplinary proceedings.
• Lodging and handling administrative and contentious-administrative appeals, including proceedings relating to the public administration’s financial liability.

• Legal support for transport and logistics projects, roads, and airport, port and rail infrastructure.
• Management of public resources and services, providing advice on water, waste and administrative concessions.
• Specialists in public law for property and town planning projects, such as hospitals, residential centres, shopping centres and urban developments, addressing all legal issues relating to town planning law.

We have lawyers specialising in competition law, with in-depth knowledge of the regulatory framework and extensive experience in advising on the development of your competition law strategy, as well as in proceedings before regulatory bodies. We advise our clients on the various areas of competition law:

• Abuse of a dominant position.
• Merger control.
• Claims for damages arising from competition law infringements.
• State aid.
• Proactive advice on competition law and compliance programmes.

We provide advice on expropriations for the construction of public infrastructure:

• Legal assistance during the drawing up of the Preliminary Notice and the Notice of Occupation at the local council, verifying that the Advance Deposit and Compensation for Rapid Occupation have been correctly set.
• Drafting of a valuation report setting out the methodology used in the valuation of the property and rights, as well as the compensable losses, in collaboration with valuation firms.
• Appeal for reconsideration before the Provincial Compulsory Expropriation Board or the equivalent regional valuation body.
• Administrative appeal before the High Court of Justice to secure a judgement in favour of our claim for fair compensation.

• Legal advice specialising in public and regulatory law. Support regarding the organisation and operation of public bodies, professional bodies, the provision of public services and public-private partnership models.
• Recognised experts in administrative litigation relating to claims brought by contractors against the public administration.
• Legal advice to public administrations and bodies on the drafting of tender documents, public tenders, contract award and performance, and on the organisation of public-private partnership models and their financing arrangements – tolls, tariffs.
• Advice to private entities on tendering at various levels and on the preparation and implementation of the contract being tendered for.

• Expert advice on all stages of staff relations with public authorities: recruitment (competitive examinations and selection processes), career progression, conflicts of interest, administrative matters, disciplinary proceedings, and issues relating to temporary staff, whether civil servants or statutory employees.

• We offer specialist advice on public and regulatory law to regulated sectors, ensuring our clients comply with all the necessary regulations to operate with legal certainty:
• Energy sector: electricity, gas, hydrocarbons, hydrogen, etc.
• Life sciences: experts in medicines and pharmacy, with particular expertise in the distribution of medicines and the legal framework governing pharmacies.
• Biocides and chemicals: applicable regulations and regulatory procedures.
• Gaming activities: legal compliance across different platforms.
• Agri-food sector: regulatory advice on production, distribution and marketing.

Compulsory acquisitions for town planning purposes, which are carried out to implement provisions of the general town plan, require specialist legal advice.

• Our public law and expropriation solicitors provide services such as:
• Drafting of valuation reports, in collaboration with a valuer, for submission as part of the joint valuation process.
• Appeal for reconsideration against a decision by the Autonomous Community’s valuation body.
• Administrative appeal before the High Court of Justice to secure a judgement in favour of our claim for fair compensation.