Civil and Commercial Proceedings

Claims for liability

• Contractual liability

• Tort liability

• Product liability

• Professional liability
   

Corporate litigation

• Conflicts between shareholders

• Enforcement of shareholder agreements

• Enforcement of actions for liability against directors

• Challenging of company resolutions and board of directors decisions

• Applications for interim measures
   

Civil and commercial agreements

• Urban leases and horizontal property

• General terms and conditions

• Agency, distribution, concession and franchise agreements

• Proceedings to terminate and rescind agreements

• Proceedings concerning the validity, interpretation and enforcement of civil and commercial agreements

• Property, possession, transfer and administration of immovable goods

• Claims for payment

• Applications for interim measures
   

Enforcement proceedings

• Personal (deposits) and in rem (pledges and mortgages) guarantees

• Bills of exchange, cheques and promissory notes

• Foreign judgments and arbitral awards

• Enforcement of judicial decisions

• Provisional enforcement of court resolutions

• Monitory (“monitorio”) and exchange (“cambiario”) proceedings
   

Fundamental rights and inheritance law

• Calculation and distribution of inheritors’ estates

• Challenging wills

• Breaches of right to honour, privacy and personal image

• Allotment of inheritances
   

International proceedings

• Proceedings to apply foreign law

• International jurisdiction

• Proceedings in the European Community

• Determination of governing law

• Immunity from jurisdiction and enforcement

• Lis pendence and connecting factors

• Interim measures

• Notification and examination of evidence abroad

• Proceedings before the European Commission

• Recognition and enforcement of judicial and other types of resolutions

• European Court of Human Rights: Breaches of fundamental rights in civil, administrative and criminal proceedings