Coronavirus: Cuatrecasas task force

The international health emergency caused by the coronavirus (Covid-19) epidemic requires immediate legal answers to the complex situations developing within companies.

At Cuatrecasas, we are working non-stop to provide our clients with legal advice on everything related to the coronavirus crisis, and we are available to give immediate answers in all legal matters, in particular:

• Anticipating the impossibility of complying with contractual obligations, as well as dealing with the consequences arising from failure to comply due to the epidemic;
  
  
• Designing contractual clauses to avoid contingencies derived from the incidence of coronavirus;
  
  
• Drafting protocols for business management and preventive management of the risk of coronavirus;
   
• Designing and implementing organizational measures to manage the crisis, both individual (e.g., managing contagion and isolation situations) and collective measures, some of which require anticipating and carrying out procedures before the labor authorities, including negotiating with workers (e.g., suspending job contracts temporarily because of organizational or productive reasons, or in an eventual case of force majeure);
   
• Reviewing applicable company obligations and liability in matters of personal data protection when processing workers’ health related information;
  
  
• Analyzing the scope and consequences of tax measures that could be adopted to mitigate the effects of the epidemic, as well as advising in those scenarios in which it may be difficult to tackle tax debts and obligations;
  
  
• Canceling and modifying public concessions and contracts; understanding the legal regime of force majeure in the administration; emergency public contract processing and the penalty regime in public contracting;
  
  
• Complying with regulatory system for medicines, health products and other products for the protection of the population’s health, as well as setting prices, importing, centralized purchasing, and eventual export restrictions, among others; and
  
  
• Defending against public health sanctions, damages liability of public administrations, and eventual temporary confiscation or requisition of assets.

 
If you have any questions, please contact us.

If you would like to know more about contract law, labor relations, and the consequences for companies resulting from the state of emergency declared in Spain, please check our publications or subscribe to some of our planned webinars.