Díaz-Bastien & Truan Abogados

WORK GROUPS

COMMERCIAL LAW GROUP

The Business Law Group of Diaz-Bastien & Truan provides legal advice to national and international companies in all areas of their business activity.

The members of the Group have extensive experience in a number of areas relating to the life of a company, offering the best solutions to reach proposed objectives in all types of national and international operations, including such questions as the liability of company directors, hiring Senior executives, mergers and acquisitions, restructuring of corporate groups, management buyouts, private equity, joint ventures, franchising contracts, distribution, agency, services, etc.

Several partners of Diaz-Bastien & Truan are or have been directors of national and international companies.

The group is highly specialised in contract design, assistance in negotiations, conflict resolution and general advice on national and international contracts, highlighting its experience in licensing, franchising, distribution and agency contracts. The British publication Global Counsel has referred to the firm on repeated occasions as a leader in Spain in the areas of agency, distribution and franchising.

The group provides advice in the computer, chemical, and telecommunications sectors, as well as in those relating to construction, tourism, energy, entertainment, international trade and intellectual property, in all of which our firm has a solid reputation.

The main areas of expertise of the Group are:

Corporate

• Establishment of companies and business projects.
• Joint Ventures and parasocial agreements (partners, shareholders).
• Secretariats.
• Challenging corporate agreements and liability of directors.
• Restructuring of companies (increase and reduction of stock capital, etc.).
• Company succession.
• Mergers and acquisitions.
• Liquidation and winding-up procedures.
• Business association and collaboration formulas (UTE, AIE).

Foreign Investments in Spain and abroad

• Statements of investments in Spain and abroad
• Investment projects in Asia and Latin America

National and International Contracting

• Agency, distribution and franchising.
• Commercial contracts (corporate acquisitions, business dealings, etc.).
• Real estate contracts (leases, PM, CM&Design, EPC, etc.).
• Service contracts (engineering, construction, management, etc.).
• Legal revisions and pre-contract due diligence.

Banking and Finance

• Banking and financial contracts.
• Foreign transfer management entities.
• Financial Credit Institutions (F.C.I.)

Project Finance

• Public sector (PPP) and private sector (PFI).
• Project management and contracting (FIDIC, etc.).
• Funding (participatory, participation accounts, "mezzanine", etc.).

Competition Law

• Abuse and dominance
• Collusive practices
• Supplies
• Unfair Competition

Securities Market Law

• OPV
• OPA