José Mª Macías

Mr. Macías has ample experience in civil, criminal, constitutional and accounting litigation, and judicial reviews. He gained experience in these areas first as a judge, later as director general of litigation affairs for the Catalan Regional Government, and finally, as a lawyer.

He focuses his practice on advising on pre-dispute matters, and leading cases and defending clients in a wide range of areas: public procurement; administrative concessions; government expropriations and the liability of public administration for the actions and omissions of civil servants; constitutional law; procedural administrative law; pharmaceutical law; consumer law and labeling; and law on hotels, tourism and leisure, and entertainment. He also specializes in territorial and urban planning; housing and commercial facilities; environmental protection and waste management; water and mining law; transport law; defense before authorities and courts; disputes with the public administrations over settlement appeals and tax sanctions; law on competition and money-laundering; law on energy, hydrocarbons and telecommunications; deregulations; cogeneration plants; nuclear power stations; the dismantling of plants subject to special rights; defending clients before the Constitutional Court; and handling cases of accounting liability before the Court of Auditors and similar courts of the autonomous regions.

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