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Lealtadis Lawyers, in its Administrative Law Department, provides legal, procedural, and extra-procedural advisory services (appeals in administrative proceedings, intervention in contentious-administrative appeals, lodging of amparo appeals before the Constitutional Court) in any matter of public employment, regardless of the public administration, the type of public employee (career civil servant, trainee, temporary, eventual staff, professional public management personnel) and the body or category held:

• Selection tests that allow access to employment in the civil service, in its different modalities, whether it be opposition, competition, and competition-opposition, and in relation to ordinary processes or those derived from extraordinary stabilization processes through competition-opposition or merit competition. Access to employment for people with disabilities.
• Circumstances related to the exercise of public functions: patrimonial liability for damages suffered in the performance of administrative activity, criminal or civil actions brought by third parties, etc.
• Mobility: procedures for filling job positions, merit-based competitions, free appointment, etc. Functional mobility.
• Internal promotion processes.
• Professional career, recognition of grade or level, inherent remunerations, etc.
• Regulatory regime for performance evaluation, assessment, and remuneration.
• Remuneration issues for civil servants: basic, supplementary, extraordinary remuneration, deferred payments, allowances for service, deduction of remuneration, …
• Issues related to working hours, vacations, and permits for civil servants.
• Full assistance in disciplinary proceedings as well as subsequent administrative or jurisdictional challenge of the disciplinary sanction.
• Incompatibilities regime: recognition, challenge of denial, disciplinary proceedings derived from eventual breaches of the regime.
• Administrative situations: active service, special services, service in other Administrations, leave of absence (voluntary, for personal interest, family grouping, care of relatives, for incompatibility, forced…).
• Suspension of functions.
• Termination of the public service relationship due to retirement, disciplinary sanction, criminal sanction.
• Rehabilitation processes for the status of civil servants.
• Extension of services for civil servants.
• Temporary civil servants: access to the status of temporary civil servant, remuneration, termination of temporary status, recognition of the right to a professional career, consolidation of grade, access to the status of career civil servant through stabilization processes and other rights derived from such status.
• Advice on collective bargaining.

The firm Lealtadis Lawyers focuses on offering a service aimed at consumers and users, and especially, at clients in the financial and banking sector.The banking law department will inform and advise consumers on the current regulations for consumer protection and thus be able to assert their rights against Public Administrations and private companies, including financial entities.In the case of financial entities, we are facing an increase in consumer protection at the community level, which has meant that our Courts and Tribunals are very mindful of Council Directive 93/13/EEC of April 5, 1993, on unfair terms in consumer contracts and the case law issued by the Court of Justice of the European Union, especially in the preliminary rulings raised by the Spanish Courts on the adaptation of Spanish domestic law to the provisions of the aforementioned Directive and which has given rise to various pronouncements on the powers of the Spanish courts when analyzing the legal effects of clauses included in consumer contracts, in application of the aforementioned Council Directive 93/13/EEC of April 5, 1993.

• Floor Clauses: Eliminate the floor clause from your mortgage loan and recover the amounts unduly charged by the financial institution.
• Complex Financial Products: Recover the capital invested in preferred shares, subordinated obligations, bonds, convertible shares, etc…
• Mortgage Expenses: Recover the amount of the expenses imposed by the financial institution (Notary fees, Tax on Documented Legal Acts, and Property Registry fees) when formalizing your mortgage loan.

We advise on all legal procedures and contracts related to the energy sector, such as energy purchase and sale contracts, supply, storage, transportation, etc., both to companies specialized in this sector and to investors.We are specialized in advising, processing administrative authorizations, developing, constructing, and maintaining energy installations and plants based on renewable technologies, whether solar photovoltaic, wind, etc.

The services that the labor department of Lealtadis Lawyers makes available to its clients include the planning of labor relations, articulation of systems for making working conditions more flexible, collective agreements and company pacts, or advice through labor audits, as well as defense against labor inspections, collective conflict measures, or labor litigation.

The Criminal Law department is responsible for the legal advice and defense of all types of persons, both natural and legal, in each of the phases of the criminal procedure and before any jurisdictional body.The department has handled more than 400 cases in the last five years and has a high degree of specialization in Socio-Economic Criminal Law, in coordination with the Tax and Accounting and Auditing departments, which allow for a comprehensive study of each problem from the different fields of Law that are related to it.

We provide legal advice on any conflict related to this area of law, both nationally and internationally, whether registered or unregistered, judicial or extrajudicial.We are distinguished by having a team of professionals with extensive experience in this type of legal and arbitration processes.

• Search for prior registrations and investigations
• Applications for Distinctive Signs (Trade Names and Trademarks) and Inventions (Patents, Utility Models, and Designs)
• Rigorous and effective monitoring and management of registrations.
• Maintenance of industrial property rights, providing the appropriate information and recommendations to each client.

• Registration in the Intellectual Property registry of all literary, scientific, audiovisual works, software, etc.

We advise and are specialized in:

• Financing, leasing, renting, and purchase/sale of vehicle fleets and rolling stock.
• Concessions and authorizations for freight and passenger transport and access to the railway market.
• Acquisitions and mergers of transport companies.
• Freight transport operators and vehicle leasing.
• Railway accidents and administrative, judicial, and arbitration proceedings.
• Road, rail, and rolling stock transport insurance.
• Mergers and acquisitions of logistics companies.
• International multimodal transport contracts.
• Business cooperation between operators.
• Administrative, judicial, and arbitration proceedings.
• Documentary credits, remittances, and other international payment methods.
• Disputes arising in the context of international sales and international commercial arbitration.
• Export credit insurance.

We know that the success of a tourism business largely depends on having good legal advice from the very beginning. Therefore, we offer the following services:

• Legal study for the implementation of tourism businesses such as hotels, condo-hotels, timeshares, transportation, travel agencies, or tourism businesses through internet channels.
• Advice on the acquisition of hospitality and tourism businesses as well as on the acquisition of assets.
• Audits of companies being acquired and due diligence reviews prior to investment.
• Handling of administrative procedures for the opening of tourism businesses.

• Hotel management contracts.
• Package travel contracts.
• Agency contracts.
• Transport contracts.
• Contracts with suppliers.
• Contracts for the acquisition of goods under a timeshare regime.
• Others.

The complexity and number of services that a tourist establishment offers lead to many conflicts with clients, suppliers, and workers. Lealtadis Tourism offers a permanent and continuous service that will provide a solution to these conflicts.

• Audit of the legal situation of common elements (bathing area, nautical area...).
• Processing of administrative licenses for carrying out auxiliary activities (use of hammock area, beach bar...).
• Adaptation of the establishment to the Data Protection Law and periodic maintenance.
• Independent study and advice regarding the risks covered by civil liability insurance policies.
• Drafting and implementation of action protocols in the establishment (IT, in the event of crimes, anti-harassment...).
• Review and advice on emergency and evacuation plans.
• Telephone hotline for our clients to resolve queries.

Our services include advice, assistance, and management in administrative sanctioning procedures, as well as in inspection actions by the tourism Authority.Furthermore, we can assume the defense in existing disputes with clients, suppliers, and workers in any matter, claims for payment, theft or robbery, staff dismissals, and claims and complaints from clients before consumer protection bodies.

We are specialized in the implementation of hotel projects abroad, from their fiscal and legal analysis to their complete start-up. We also carry out study and valuation reports for investors who want to participate in investments in the hotel sector in other countries.

Our international services include:

1. Due-Diligence on projects and developments in operation.
2. Prior legal study and advice on the legislation of the country of implementation.
3. Prior Fiscal Analysis of the project in relation to the country of implementation.
4. Application for licenses and administrative permits.
5. Legal defense.
6. Advice on labor matters.
7. Legal advice throughout the life of the project.

We have our own offices and agreements with firms in the main countries to be able to provide a global service managed from our offices in Spain.

Lealtadis Lawyers has a department especially dedicated to Administrative and Contentious-Administrative Law, which offers its clients coverage for all their needs in this area of law. The lawyers who make up this area have deep legal knowledge and extensive experience and professional competence in it, including the following specialties:

• Administrative law and regulated sectors.
• Environmental Law.
• Consumer Law.
• Advice to Public Administrations.
• Public procurement.
• Sectoral Law.
• Expropriations.
• Patrimonial Liability of Public Administrations.
• Fundamental Rights.
• Sanctioning Law.
• Civil Service and other forms of public employment.

The firm Lealtadis Lawyers incorporates another avenue of specialized advice in a legal framework as specific as sports law, aimed at athletes, agents, clubs, professional leagues, or companies related to sport in one way or another.Our services range from the broadest advice in all those disciplines that affect and condition this branch of law, such as:Intervention in judicial or arbitration proceedings, at a national or international level.

• Contractual and Obligational Law.
• Image rights.
• Sponsorship.
• Marketing.
• Trademarks, Industrial and Intellectual Property.
• Tax and Corporate Law.
• Labor Law.
• Administrative Law.

The international law department is dedicated to supranational advice, assistance, and management, in English, French, German, and Italian, enabling and facilitating the provision of our legal services before international bodies, as well as carrying out procedures with companies and entities located outside our borders.

• Foreign investment in Spain. (whether through a permanent establishment, Spanish subsidiary, or other means)
• Advice and representation in matters of non-resident taxation.
• Representation before international bodies.
• Advice on Spanish investment abroad.
• Community law.
• Private international law.
• Liaison between the specialized departments of the firm and the foreign client.

Lealtadis Lawyers has a distinctly commercial law focus, which means that all professionals in the firm integrated within this department have a deep knowledge of the subject.Notwithstanding the above, our activity is approached from a multidisciplinary perspective, which allows for the analysis of all legal aspects that may be involved in any commercial or corporate transaction (tax, labor, etc.).Similarly, all lawyers belonging to the department have a high level of specialization in advising clients in General Meetings and Boards of Directors, whether at the time of the company's incorporation, in its ordinary course of business, or regarding a specific operation.

The Civil Law department has handled more than 3,500 cases in the last five years in all general legal matters —Law of obligations and contracts, Real Estate and Registry Law, Family and Successions, Consumer and User Law—, thus having significant experience in all types of issues, which allows it to provide specific solutions to each client's problems and achieve a high degree of loyalty from them.The team and collaboration with other firms allow us to defend the client's interests in all the courts of the State, regardless of their location and instance.

We provide advice on all procedures and dealings with:

• Insurance and reinsurance contracts.
• Regulation and supervision.
• Mediation in private insurance and reinsurance.
• Litigation.
• Pension plans and funds.

Our firm is particularly oriented towards the business sector, which is why we cover all those legal aspects, with special attention to tax aspects, that, directly or indirectly, are susceptible to consideration in the operation of different commercial or civil entities, and in the legal-economic relationships of individuals.Of particular significance within the services provided is preventive advice, which aims to obtain a prior diagnosis before the closing of the economic years of the various tax contingencies that may affect the company.Specifically, within this area of law, we are specialized in advising on state taxes, such as Corporate Tax, Personal Income Tax, and Value Added Tax (including tax and accounting advice), devolved taxes managed by autonomous regions, such as the Tax on Onerous Property Transfers and Documented Legal Acts and Inheritance Tax, as well as regional or local taxes.

Lealtadis Lawyers has an Urban Planning and Real Estate department that offers coverage for all circumstances that any type of client might need personally or for their company in this field.To achieve optimal results in these areas, the department has professionals with extensive professional experience, fully specialized in these branches of law, offering permanent follow-up to our clients to obtain quick and accurate solutions to the numerous urban and real estate situations that arise daily in legal traffic.Aware of the need for technical knowledge that must be provided for the successful outcome of the numerous situations that our clients face, in the department, architects, surveyors, and civil engineers belonging to our firm coexist in continuous interaction with our lawyers, who also resolve any problem in a coordinated and effective manner between the legal and technical needs that arise in these two fields.