Fiscal

Fiscal Law covers all the connections of individuals and companies with the Public Tax Office being either state, autonomous or local authority. Our team of professionals have the accredited experience and stature not only in preventative advice, tax planning and optimization, but also in compiling tax returns and defending inspections in the following areas:

1. Tax and fiscal planning and wealth restructuring for individuals and companies
2. Family businesses
3. International taxation
4. VAT and indirect taxation
5. Tax Payments
6. Inspection and litigious Tax Claims procedures
7. Ongoing advice:
   • Periodic tax obligations
   • Impact on companies
   • Accounting-fiscal relations
   • Taxation in commercial operations
   • Tax consultations

Labour

The working area includes amongst others the following services:

• General advice
• Hiring of staff. Top management
• Collective agreements and pacts with companies
• Collective bargaining
• Social Security and National Insurance systems
• Health and Safety
• Dismissal procedures: Redundancies, dismissals and early retirement

Tourism

This area constitutes one of the strong points of the Firm. Within the company you can find the areas of Civil law, Mercantile Law and Administrative Law that particularly refer to the tourist industry, in which the professionals of our Firm have an extensive and accredited experience at a high level. The tourist industry is and has always been the driving force of the economic development of the Balearic Islands. Our firm has become a specialist in this field accompanying the main companies belonging to the industry in their processes of consolidation and internationalization. Our professional practice includes, amongst others, the following areas:

• Investments in the Tourist Industry.
• Contractual: Hotel Management contracts, Allotment contracts, Agency, Incoming services, Leasing agreement, sales and purchase of establishments, condo-hotels
• Administrative: license processing: prior to opening, sanctions and penalties procedures.
• Consumer rights: legislation for package holidays
• Vacation Rental Advice and Processing

Financial

The financial and banking advice offered by Bufete Villalonga y Villalonga covers not only the service of assisting our clients, individuals and companies in the processes of debt refinancing and restructuring through negotiation with the Banks, but also by advising them on the development of their credit movements. We can therefore offer our clients our experience in:

• Bank contracts
• Debt restructuring processes
• Corporate financing for acquisitions and projects
• Electronic banking and consumer rights

Criminal law

Our professionals specializing in Criminal Law defend the client’s interests in any criminal proceedings arising from companies or individuals in the areas of:

• Finance and Monetary offences
• Environmental and Urban development offences
• Offences relating to labour activities
• Offences against the civil service and government bodies
• Offences relating to companies, fraud and insolvencies
• Offences against the person, negligence and honour

Family businesses

The advising of family businesses is by definition multidisciplinary, not only because the activity needs constant professional assistance from different areas but also because their management structure demands harmony and good will from the members of the family in the legal and fiscal areas, taking into account the different personal, family and professional interests found in this sector.

Our services cover, amongst others, the following areas:

• Family protocol
• Corporate management
• Wealth and asset restructuration processes
• Advice regarding the members of the administration

Real Estate and construction

The law covering real estate and construction is an operating area that many of our clients belong to, not only in Spain but also in the emerging countries, and that spans the area of financial and legal advice for investments and also the defense of the interests of individuals and companies in recurring subjects such as responsibility for negligence in the building industry or advice at the moment of carrying out an investment in this sector.

Our services cover, amongst others, the following areas:

• Advice on the purchase of property. Due diligence
• Contracts relating to construction, supplies, promotion and technical advice
• Responsibility of the promoters, builders and other professionals
• Processing of files, documents and licenses

Town planning

The integral advice given on Town Planning Laws covers not only the government bodies and civil service departments but also private individuals.

In this latter case so that any investments affected by the complex and ever changing regulations in the sector can be carried out with legal security.

The area includes:

• Analysis of the legal security in urban development investments
• Analysis of building rights, limits and terms
• Planning and processing of territorial and town planning
• Agreements and urban development procedures
• Licenses
• Urban Development discipline

Foreign investment

The Bufete has accompanied their clients where ever they have decided to invest: from the main international tourist destinations to the emerging countries in eastern Europe or North Africa. This advice is integral by necessity, posing great importance on the fiscal, financial and transaction aspects as well as the company structure. For this reason, the Firm counts of a network of first class collaborating offices in each one of the aforementioned places, who operate and collaborate with our firm under the principles of maximum quality, security and service to the client.

Our professional practice spans, amongst other matters:

• International legal structures
• Tax planning
• Recurrent advice

Administrative and government bodies

Business projects occasionally have a marked component of Public Law that in many cases determine their viability. The area of Administration Law includes not only integral advice but also the defense of individuals and companies in matters relating to government bodies and the civil service, covering:

• Integral advice to Town Halls and local authorities
• Integral advice to state-owned companies
• Contracting with government bodies
• Subventions and grants
• Administrative proceedings and administrative appellation
  
  

THE ENVIRONMENT

• Legal advice on the environment

Insurance

Our professionals in this field offer specialized advice and technical support in the following areas:

• Advice on claims and appeals to insurance companies
• Legal and extrajudicial advice in case of accidents and claims
• Revision, updating and advice on taking out a policy

Wealth and asset management

Our firm combines the professional experience in the private enterprise and banking sectors with the specialist training of our team in the areas of tax, finance and mercantile law, which allows us to offer our clients a complete integral advice, with a high added value, in wealth management and planning.

Judicial law and arbitration

Our firm counts on experience in procedural law as well as compiling arbitration agreements that ensure their posterior implementation, evaluating and choosing the kind of arbitration for each case and also the most appropriate arbitration body.

At the same time, the procedural department provides our clients with the advice and proceedings necessary for defending their interests not only in the Courts but also in any other proceedings arising from the resolutions of legal controversy.

• Advice on claims and appeals to insurance companies
• Legal and extrajudicial advice in case of accidents and claims
• Revision, updating and advice on taking out a policy

Foundations

The Firm counts on a wide experience in the area of Foundations that allows us to offer our clients integral advice with a high added value in the phase of defining, establishing and the subsequent management of the Project. Amongst others, we offer the following services:

• Analysis and viability of the foundation project
• Establishing and Registration of the foundation
• Secretary of the Board of Trustees
• Recurrent civil y fiscal advice

Mergers and acquisitions

Dentro de la amplia gama de contratos mercantiles destacan por su importancia en la vida económica de nuestras empresas las operaciones de fusión, joint venture y, en general, compraventas de negocios y activos.

Nuestra práctica profesional comprende, entre otras materias:

• Fusiones y escisiones
• Joint ventures y asociaciones
• Compraventas de negocios, sociedades, activos y empresas

Civil law

Our specialists in the area of Civil Law, with a solid legal training, span a wide range of subjects that affect the behavior between individual people in areas such as ownership, rights of way, usufruct and other rights, the family, succession due to mortis causa, all kinds of contracts, evictions or joint freehold.Our work extends to not only preventative advice in these matters but also the legal defense of the interests of our clients. We include in this area:

RENTALS AND JOINT FREEHOLD

• Negotiation and drawing up of rental contracts
• Compiling of articles of association for joint freehold
• Reclaiming amounts and evictions
• Recurrent advice for Property Associations

CIVIL RESPONSIBILITY

• Accidents and their consequences, in particular workplace and traffic accidents
• Professional negligence
• Responsibility for faults and defects

CONSUMER RIGHTS

• General Contrating Conditions
• Guarantees on acquired products
• Security in Internet Transactions

RIGHTS OF THE FAMILY

• Divorce, separation and annulment procedures
• Compiling Marriage Contracts
• Rights of common law partners
• Incapacitation and guardian processes

SUCCESSION AND INHERITANCE

• Advice on drawing up and writing of wills
• Taxation and rights of succession
• Legitimating and division of inheritances
• Executors

Mercantile and company law

El área Mercantil ha sido y es uno de los puntos fuertes del Bufete. El asesoramiento integral a las empresas y particulares en el ámbito mercantil y societario es una de nuestras especialidades. Algunos de nuestros abogados participan en Consejos de Administración de numerosas compañías, asesorando en el diseño y ejecución de complejas operaciones societarias e involucrándose en las vicisitudes propias de su negocio. Incluimos con carácter enunciativo y no limitativo en esta área:

• Constitución de sociedades
• Pactos de accionistas
• Gobierno corporativo
• Reestructuraciones societarias
• Contratos mercantiles
• Procesos de due diligence
  
  

DEPORTES

• Asesoramiento legal
• Planificación y gestión patrimonial. Análisis de inversiones
  

DERECHO DE LA COMPETENCIA

• Competencia desleal. Litigios
• Operaciones de concentración societaria. Servicio de Defensa de la Competencia
• Procedimientos ante el Tribunal de Defensa de la Competencia
  

PROPIEDAD INDUSTRIAL E INTELECTUAL

• Patentes y marcas. Registro de derechos y litigios
• Derechos de autor y de imagen
• Publicidad