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Expertise

We assist our clients at every stage of their dealings with States, international organisations, public administrations and the wider institutional public sector.

  • We have extensive experience in challenging administrative acts through the filing of all types of administrative remedies —including applications for reconsideration, appeals, extraordinary review petitions and ex officio review procedures— as well as in defending our clients’ interests before the administrative courts.

  • In the field of public procurement, we act in all types of appeals, both ordinary and special, against decisions taken throughout the tendering process, including exclusions, challenges to tender specifications, award decisions, withdrawals and declarations of no award.

    Asimismo, asesoramos en la participación en licitaciones convocadas por instituciones de la Unión Europea, la OTAN y otros organismos internacionales.

    Contamos asimismo en el despacho con un consultor que puede asistirle en la preparación y presentación de su oferta para el contrato público que le interese.

  • We have successfully represented our clients in claims for compensation arising from the normal or abnormal functioning of Public Administrations, particularly in the healthcare sector.

  • We have extensive regulatory experience in strategic sectors such as energy, infrastructure, natural resources, postal services, transport and telecommunications, and in the various proceedings before the competent administrative authorities in each area.

  • We advise our clients on investigations and proceedings concerning prohibited conduct — cartel behaviour and abuse of dominant position — and provide preventive advice on mergers control and State aid. We also assist with foreign investment screening and with claims for damages arising from anticompetitive wrongdoing.

  • Our practice has a distinctly European dimension. We represent clients in challenging acts of the institutions and agencies of the European Union, and we handle actions for annulment, actions for failure to act and claims for non-contractual liability before the Court of Justice of the European Union. We also advise on the submission of complaints to the European Commission and on the drafting of petitions to the European Parliament.

  • Decisions, resolutions and acts issued by international organisations have a direct impact on the rights, contracts and legal status of their officials, contractors and collaborating entities. Operating outside national jurisdictions, these bodies are governed by their own legal frameworks and internal justice systems. Our firm offers specialised, comprehensive legal advice to a wide range of international organisations, including the United Nations system (UN), the World Bank, the Organisation of American States (OAS), the World Health Organization (WHO), the European Union (EU) and other multilateral agencies.

  • We represent our clients in challenging tax decisions before the economic-administrative tribunals — TEAC, TEAR and TEAM — and, where appropriate, before the contentious-administrative courts.

  • We act to protect fundamental rights, bringing special appeals before the administrative courts, appeals for protection (recurso de amparo) before the Constitutional Court and, where appropriate, applications to the European Court of Human Rights.

  • We provide comprehensive advice and representation in town planning matters, assisting developers, public authorities, businesses and private individuals who require legal certainty in planning procedures, licences, spatial planning, land valuation, compulsory purchase and the challenge and enforcement of all types of administrative acts.

  • In the field of civil service, we provide advice on selection procedures, competitions and public examinations, extensions of effects, administrative situations, incompatibilities and the disciplinary regime.
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Pro Bono

Pro bono services are available to individuals and organisations with limited resources or social aims. Each year we select around ten cases after assessing the applicant's circumstances.