CIVIL-COMMERCE
- Claims for payment: 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: Actions during bankruptcy proceedings.
- 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 and industrial 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
- Taxes and Taxation: Tax inspections, Repayment of undue amounts paid.
- Data Protection: Proceedings before the Spanish Agency of Data Protection.
- Urban planning: Processing licenses, challenges to urban agreements, expropriation files, breaches urban planning, sanctions...
- Local Administration: Challenges, infringement proceedings, license processing, trade reviews…
- 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…
- Public subsidies: Refunds, diminutions.
LABOUR
- Dismissals and sanctions.
- Functional and geographical mobility.
- Claims for payment.
- Processes of substantial change in working conditions.
- Employment contracts.
- Corporate subrogation Illegal assignment of workers.
- Collective proceedings.
- Court proceedings related to Social Security: Retirements and disabilities.
CRIMINAL
- Criminal liability of legal entities: corporate compliance.
- Economic and Criminal Law (tax related offenses).
- Corporate Criminal Law (corporate crimes, offenses against the market and consumers, offenses against the industrial and intellectual property).
- Environmental crimes.
- Crimes agains Public Administration. 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.
- Crimes against Persons, Intimacy and Honor.
- Computer-related crimes.
- Homicides and Trials before a Jury.
- Criminal and Property Law (robberies, thefts, burglaries, frauds).
ARBITRAGE
- Finally, ARPA Lawyers Consultants provides services in the field of conflict resolution before the all-existing arbitration bodies.
- Arbitrage is an agile, practial, flexible and efficient tool to obtain justice.
- It is an alternative mean to solve conflicts, where the parties undertake the commitment of referring the decission to one or more arbitrators the solution of a present or future conflict, which compells to fulfill arbitrators' decision and not to involve judges or juries.
- The resolution of the arbitrators (designated by the parties and external to the conflict) becomes what is called Arbitral Award.
- Said Award is equivalent to a sentence, which makes its implementation mandatory. Also, has the effect of a res judicata and is unquestionable. It may be executed by force by ordinary courts of justice.