We have extensive experience advising shareholders, as well as handling corporate restructuring, mergers and acquisitions, legal due diligence proceedings, commercial contracting, franchising, competition law and unfair competition.

Our services include:

• Corporate affairs: planning, incorporation and ongoing advisory services for all types of entities
• Corporate governance: legal assistance for administrative bodies
• Mergers and acquisitions: corporate restructuring and all types of corporate transactions
• Commercial and financial contracting: from negotiation to execution
• Family Business: negotiation, drafting and implementation of family protocols and planning for wealth succession

Our tax services provide clients with the security they need in an intricate, complex and ever-changing regulatory environment. Our teams consist of professionals specialising in tax matters.
Our services include:

• Tax planning: we analyse each company’s needs, designing and implementing structures that optimise tax costs for business asset holders, such as holding companies, family businesses or fiduciary structures.
• Business restructuring: we execute mergers, entire spin-offs, spin-offs of business lines, share swaps and non-cash contributions in order to ensure fiscal neutrality in corporate structures.
• Inspections and procedures: we advise and represent clients before the authorities in inspection, management, collection and penalty proceedings, as well as in economic-administrative and judicial-administrative proceedings.
• Tax advice, planning and management: we provide guidance on regional and national taxes: including Corporate Income Tax, Personal Income Tax (IRPF), VAT (REDEME, SII, One-Stop Shop), Inheritance and Gift Tax, Stamp Duty and more.
• International taxation: we specialise in cross-border operations and the application of double taxation treaties. We advise clients with or without international structures on permanent establishments in Spain (subsidiaries and branches), expatriate, inpatriate and relocated worker taxation, and assist international organisations and individuals.
• Transfer pricing: we identify and design transfer pricing policies for business groups, ensuring compliance with documentation obligations. We assist with the implementation and evaluation of these policies, provide support during inspections and negotiate Advance Pricing Agreements (APA).
• Tax credits for R&D&I: we provide support for deductions related to R&D&I, investments in film productions, audiovisual series, live performing arts and music productions, as well as international double taxation relief.
• Tax optimisation for business groups: we offer guidance on fiscal consolidation for corporate tax and special group VAT regimes.
• Specialised tax advice for start-ups and entrepreneurs: we assist with the application of tax benefits, provide shareholder tax advice for investor entry and financing rounds and explore alternative financing options.
• Expertise in special tax regimes: we advise non-profit entities (associations and foundations), provide tax services for sports organisations and support clients in agricultural tax regimes, among others.
• Assistance with tax due diligence and audits

Our expert lawyers in Employment and Social Security Law provide guidance to companies for the efficient management of personnel, recognising this as a key factor in the strategic success of businesses. We always approach our work with commitment and close collaboration.

Our services include:

• Employment contracts, including contracts for senior management and expatriate personnel
• Collective bargaining negotiations
• Workforce restructuring proceedings
• Mediation and litigation
• Employment management: payroll and social security administration, employment contracting and general advisory services

We provide specialised services in Public Law, focusing on the defence and guidance of companies and individuals in their dealings with public authorities.

Our services include:

• Contentious-administrative appeals
• Appeals in cassation
• Appeals to the Supreme Court
  Economic-Administrative Claims
• Appeals before Public Procurement Tribunals
• Drafting of Administrative Documents and Public Contract Specifications
• Legislation Drafting
• Legal Opinions

Our team of litigators has extensive experience in judicial litigation, arbitration and mediation.

We provide services across all sectors, with a particular focus on financial services, the automotive sector, transportation and logistics, healthcare and retail.

We represent our clients at all judicial levels, as well as with leading arbitration courts and mediation institutions. Our lawyers are accredited as commercial arbitrators and mediators.

Our economic criminal law team specialises in preventive advice and legal defence in the area of corporate criminal law.

Our scope includes all judicial levels, from local courts to the European Court of Human Rights.

Our services include:

• Crimes against property and the socio-economic order
• Corporate crimes
• Crimes against the public treasury and social security
• Crimes related to land use and the environment
• Crimes against industrial and intellectual property
• Crimes against workers’ rights
• Crimes against the market and consumers
• Crimes involving forgery
• Crimes against the administration of justice and public administration
• Compliance officer protocols
• Implementation of crime prevention and detection systems
• Crimes against property and socio-economic order.

Restructuring and insolvencies

We address business crises with a 360º holistic approach, supported by specialists in restructuring and insolvencies, as well as experts in financing operations, business management, taxation and human resources.

We provide comprehensive solutions, including viability plans, debt refinancing, liquidity acquisition, the sale of production units, workforce downsizing, exploration of new market niches and support in innovation and digital transformation processes (the latter in collaboration with our Consulting division).

Our insolvency and bankruptcy law experts cover all debtor needs, from pre-insolvency stages and negotiating out-of-court agreements to the complete handling of insolvency proceedings, always safeguarding the assets and responsibilities of the company’s directors and authorised representatives. This is achieved through collaboration with specialists in insolvency, procedural, commercial, labour, tax, administrative and economic criminal law.

From a creditor’s perspective, our specialists provide representation in creditors’ meetings, judicial credit recognition, guarantee enforcement and clawback actions.

We have extensive experience in the defense of intellectual and industrial property rights and we are a consolidated firm in the entertainment and new technologies sector.

We help you in the following areas:

Intellectual Property

• Comprehensive advice on the protection, registration, marketing or management of intellectual property rights in any field
• Defence and resolution of conflicts

Entertainment and Audiovisual Law

• Production and commercialisation of content
• Investment planning and project financing. Public aid
• Production orders
• Co-production or investment agreements
• Pre-sale, exploitation, or distribution agreements
• Script clearance and work clearance
• Contracts (script, music, direction, actors, technicians, etc.)
• Management entities
• Advertising, product placement and sponsorships
• Assisting the producer in necessary negotiations and comprehensive legal management of the project
• Image rights, protection of honour and privacy
• Defence against any breaches of moral and exploitation rights
• Protection and registration of copyright/related rights offline and online
• Video games and social gaming. Development and distribution of new works
• Dispute resolution

Technology and Software

• Legal feasibility analysis of business plans/disruptive ideas
• Regulation of B2C, B2B, and marketplace web environments
• Licensing agreements, software development and technology transfer
• Comprehensive advice on implementing Artificial Intelligence (AI)
• Protection and planning of technological developments. ERP, applications and CRM

Industrial Property

• Planning, registration and defence of trademarks, designs or patents.

Our lawyers have substantial experience in financial and banking law. We have been involved in significant financial transactions, providing advisory services to both companies and financial institutions, credit entities and investment firms.
We also bring to the table proven international expertise and a team of tax advisors, delivering a meticulous comprehensive service tailored to meet the needs of this type of advisory work.

We have a team of professionals specialized in the insurance sector, providing advice to insurance companies, mutual insurance companies, associations, mutual benefit societies, brokerage firms and other related entities.

Our services include:

• Defence in judicial proceedings across all jurisdictions
• Comprehensive advisory services for life and non-life insurance entities
• Management and advisory services for proceedings with the Directorate General of Insurance and Pension Funds
• Drafting, reviewing and/or adapting insurance policies and contractual and/or non-contractual documentation
• Preparation of reports and updates on insurance and pension fund regulations and legal matters
• Advisory services on corporate transactions and the negotiation of strategic alliances
• Commercial and tax advisory services and assistance with tax and contentious proceedings
• Labour advisory services
• Advisory and management services regarding personal data protection
• Advisory services for real estate transactions, including the sale and purchase of properties, portfolios, leases, etc.
• Mediation and arbitration
• Legal due diligence

Auren’s team of legal experts advises companies in the commerce and transport sectors, whether by road, sea, air or rail, providing a comprehensive approach that covers all legal and regulatory aspects.

We have a team of professionals specialized in renewable energies who provide advice in the following areas

• Legal and economic-financial advice in construction projects of wind farms, solar photovoltaic plants, biomass projects, and legalization, acquisition and sale operations of all types of facilities.
• Management and intervention in the awarding and execution of wind, solar, photovoltaic, biomass and hydroelectric energy projects, from project gestation, processing, contracting, final registration of the project, due diligence and commissioning of the plants.
• Advice and consultancy on compliance with environmental regulations and environmental protection.
• Advice before the CNMC on regulatory issues related to the energy sector.
• Self-consumption projects: legal and economic-financial advice on the planning and execution of self-consumption facilities, complying with regulatory and energy efficiency requirements.
• International advice on legislative studies and collaboration in global markets, without geographical restriction, guaranteeing viability and regulatory compliance in different regions.

Consultancy

• Advice on all types of regulatory procedures with the CNMV (Spanish Securities Market Commission)
• Advice on inspection files with the CNMV
• Review of compliance with MiFID II (procedures, contracts and internal documentation) for regulated entities
• Development of procedures for newly established entities and updating of existing ones in consolidated organisations
• Implementation of securities market policies
• Design and implementation of the compliance department
• Supervision and maintenance of the RIC (Risk and Compliance Committee) monitoring body
• Development of corporate governance standards

Delegation

• Delegation of internal audit function
• Delegation of internal compliance control, risk management and internal audit functions
• Management of the whistleblowing channel
• Outsourcing of Data Protection Officer

Training
We offer courses tailored to our clients’ needs, both online and in-person. Our offerings cover all areas of regulatory compliance, including AML/CFT, GDPR, MiFID II, market abuse, PRIIPs, criminal risk prevention, code of conduct, conflict of interest, CRS, FATCA, and EMIR, including training for the Board of Directors.

We leverage cutting-edge technology to serve our clients, offering specialised comprehensive services to support management in defining their corporate strategies.

We have extensive experience in the design and development of information systems, control and support to the financial area. In addition, our multidisciplinary approach ensures that companies can have the necessary tools to make informed and strategic decisions in any of their areas of activity.

Thanks to a multidisciplinary team, we support companies through the outsourcing of administrative services (BPO – Business Process Outsourcing), optimising their resources and efficiency. These services include accounting, reporting and compliance with fiscal and labor obligations.