Extensive business knowledge and complete coverage of legal services for companies in this sector
Our Logistics and Transport Group has ample experience in advising companies in the logistics and transport sector. Whatever a company’s main business is (logistics, maritime and ports, road, rail and air), our lawyers can provide it with a complete legal service. The group takes a multidisciplinary approach, comprising lawyers from the firm’s different offices and specialty areas, all with extensive knowledge of the logistics and transport sector.
We are proud to have a wide range of national and international clients from this sector, and to have participated in many important logistics and transport transactions in Spain.
Corporate and commercial: We advise on negotiating and implementing contracts, including drafting license agreements (agency, distribution, and franchise agreements), logistics contracts to outsource transport services and transport contracts, as well as contractual clauses dealing with goods delivery and receipt. We also advise on negotiating and implementing acquisitions, mergers, transfers, the acquisition of stakes in companies, takeovers, and other similar transactions, as well as on joint-venture agreements.
Intellectual property: We advise on intellectual property issues, including patents and industrial secrets, new technologies, and particularly on e-commerce platforms, software licenses and data protection.
Litigation: We advise on all areas of procedural law, including the liability of logistics and transport operators, insuring goods, claims for damages to goods, provisional attachment, and executing rights of retention. We also act as arbitrators and represent clients in administrative sanction proceedings.
Labor: We advise on labor laws, prevention of occupational hazards, outsourcing and social security, including advising on sub-contracting and replacing staff, collective bargaining agreements, special obligations and relocation.
Tax: We advise on customs warehouses; indirect taxation; exports and international taxation; tax planning for financing, investment, and disinvestment structures; as well as providing ongoing tax advice.
International business: We advise on incoterms and on specific regulations on different kinds of transport.
Public law: We advise on administrative law, including obtaining the administrative permits required to engage in the sector’s activities and to access the market.
Corporate finance: We advise on structuring, negotiating, and implementing financing contracts, including contracts to build, buy or sell aircraft and ships, or to finance fleets.
Infrastructure and PPP: We advise on financing and refinancing projects to build, redesign, implement and operate infrastructures, as well as advising public authorities and other public-sector entities on designing and implementing systems to build and operate these infrastructures.
Competition and the EU: We advise on competition law and on procedures with the Spanish, Portuguese and EU competition authorities, covering matters such as European legislation, state aid, and rights and obligations.
