FOOD AND AGRICULTURE
Lawyers specialized in food and agriculture
This client profile requires lawyers with specific knowledge of the food industry due to the unique regulations regarding licenses and permits, appellations of origin, or rustic leases, among others; and due to the particular nature of contracts with national and international suppliers and distributors.
Our firm has extensive experience in advising companies, family businesses and cooperatives related to the world of food and agriculture. Among our clients are wine cooperatives and wineries, important vegetable and cereal traders, or factories of sausages, hams and other meat products; with locations throughout the national geography: Madrid, Castilla la Mancha, Castilla y León, Andalucía, etc.
We have a team diversified by subject matter to meet all the needs of companies dedicated to food and agriculture:
The food sector is booming, with a total turnover close to 100,000 million euros in our country, boosted by the commitment of farmers and entrepreneurs, the increase in exports and the marketing of the Spain brand.
WE HELP YOU FROM OUR CIVIL, COMMERCIAL AND TAX DEPARTMENT.
- Advice on corporate matters and secretary of the board of directors. Drafting of minutes, attendance to general meetings.
- Drafting of contracts and advice in negotiations with customers, partners and suppliers (franchise, concession, supply, lease, agency, leasing, renting, etc.).
- Competition law.
- Insolvency proceedings.
- Advising on mergers, spin-offs and acquisitions of companies and concessionaires, joint venture agreements and corporate restructuring.
- Advice on the tax impact of corporate transactions and transfer pricing.
- Advice on consumer and user matters.
- Claims to suppliers.
- Product liability.
- Advice on data protection, file registration, security documents, consumer complaints, etc.
WE HELP YOU FROM THE ADMINISTRATIVE DEPARTMENT
- Advice on obtaining administrative licenses and sectorial authorizations.
- Advice on environmental matters.
- Advice on sanctioning procedures against the administration.
- Advice on obtaining public subsidies.
- Defense against the administration in administrative claims and before the contentious-administrative courts.
WE HELP YOU WITH LEGAL PROBLEMS
- Drafting of lawsuits, answering lawsuits, complaints, appeals and other legal briefs for the defense of our clients before the courts of justice and arbitration tribunals.
- Claims against partners, liability claims against administrators, challenge of corporate resolutions, claim of information and accounting documentation, etc.
- Claims in consumer and user matters.
- Appeals of sanctions by public administrations.
- Assistance in proceedings before the courts of first instance.
- Assistance in proceedings before the contentious-administrative courts.
- Assistance in proceedings before labor courts.
- Assistance in proceedings before the commercial courts.
- Assistance in proceedings before the courts of first instance and criminal courts.
WE HELP YOU FROM THE INSURANCE DEPARTMENT
- Claim of indemnities against insurance companies derived from accidents, such as explosions, fires, floods, accidents of any nature, etc.
- Claims for compensation against insurance companies derived from defective products.
WE HELP YOU FROM THE LABOR DEPARTMENT
- Advice on company-employee relations. Hiring, dismissals, modification of working conditions, geographical or functional mobilities, working time, disciplinary proceedings, wage system, social benefits, workers’ representatives, etc.
- Company restructurings, including negotiations in the event of collective layoffs or collective employment suspensions (ERE and ERTES), as well as layoffs due to duplication of positions.
- Collective bargaining. Advice on negotiations of collective bargaining agreements or changes in working conditions.
- Assistance in legal proceedings at all levels.
- Attendance at conciliations before official bodies.
- Assistance in administrative files.
- Assistance before the Labor and Social Security Inspection.
- Prevention of occupational hazards.
- Advice on social security matters.
We offer you a comprehensive advice to your legal problem. We are a multidisciplinary firm with expert lawyers in each area.
PUBLICATIONS ON FOOD AND AGRICULTURE
The new Animal Protection Law The new Animal Protection law and the importance of knowing the legal obligations of the owners What
Regulation of the labeling, presentation and identification of certain wine products The Delegated Regulation (EU) 2019/33, dated October 17, 2018 regulates, among
The responsibility of offenders in the milk cartel With the creation of the European Communities, the prohibition of distortion of competition was
