Law Firm in Barcelona: Our Areas of Practice

This firm provides legal services to its clients in the practice areas of Civil Law, Bankruptcy Law, Labor Law, Tax Law, Criminal Law, Commercial Law and Matrimonial and Family Law, among others. We work with a multidisciplinary and transversal approach, to offer our clients the best comprehensive solution to their needs. Our goal is to offer the most sophisticated advice.

Legal Specialties of GMB Lawyers

Civil Law

Labor and Social Security Law

Criminal Law

Bankruptcy Law and Second Chance Law

Commercial Law

Family law

Inheritance Law

Banking Law

Procedural Law

Fiscal law

CIVIL LAW

  • Extrajudicial
  • Judicial
  • Performance of obligations
  • Contracts
  • Contractual liability
  • Non-contractual liability
  • Nullity and voidability
  • Prescription and limitation
  • Conciliation
  • Mediation
  • Arbitration
  • Donations
  • Deposit or earnest-money contracts
  • Purchase options
  • Hidden defects
  • Debt acknowledgments
  • Urban property
  • Evictions
  • Mortgage enforcement procedures
  • Real rights (properties, boundaries, easements, horizontal property and homeowners’ associations)
  • Co-ownership communities
  • Usucaption
  • Incapacity, guardianship, and curatorship
  • Emancipation

LABOR AND SOCIAL SECURITY LAW

  • Claims related to dismissal
  • Claims for monetary compensation
  • Claims related to discrimination and violation of rights
  • Individual and collective dismissal procedures (ERE)
  • Collective bargaining
  • Labor mobility
  • Modification of employment conditions
  • Salary claims
  • Labor sanctions
  • Labor implications in business restructuring processes
  • Analysis of financial statements and viability plans
  • Human resources policies
  • Executive contracts
  • Assistance to CEMAC
  • Labor inspections
  • Occupational risk prevention regulations
  • Claims against public bodies regarding disability, retirement, widowhood, and unemployment
  • Calculation and processing of Social Security benefits
  • Permanent disability
  • Retirement
  • Dispute of employment termination
  • Sick leave due to work-related or common contingencies
  • Disabilities

CRIMINAL LAW

  • Crimes against road safety: drunk driving, accidents, reckless driving, failure to assist
  • Gender-based violence: abuse and assault
  • Injuries
  • Homicides and murders
  • Crimes against property: theft, robbery, embezzlement, and fraud
  • Crimes against sexual freedom: abuse, assault
  • Family abandonment, crimes against minors, and family-related offenses
  • Corporate crimes, crimes against the Tax Agency, and tax offenses
  • Crimes against workers’ rights
  • Punishable insolvencies: asset concealment
  • Economic crimes
  • Corporate crimes
  • Penitentiary law
  • Public health
  • Urban planning and environmental law
  • Crimes against privacy
  • International criminal law
  • Assistance and defense of detainees and suspects
  • Complaints and lawsuits
  • Fast-track trial
  • Abbreviated procedure
  • Criminal investigation proceedings
  • Private prosecution
  • Enforcement orders
  • Statute of limitations
  • Appeal, cassation, and constitutional protection
  • Cassation appeal
  • Criminal record cancellation

BANKRUPTCY LAW AND SECOND CHANCE LAW

GMB Lawyers has extensive experience advising companies and individuals involved in bankruptcy situations, whether as creditors or debtors in insolvency. Our team includes specialized lawyers, as well as economists and auditors, who provide guidance in the following areas: Companies and Commercial Entities:
  • Filing voluntary bankruptcy and legal representation in the procedure
  • Business crisis diagnosis
  • Early warning, pre-bankruptcy, refinancing, and viability plans
  • Fast-track bankruptcy
  • Proposals for agreements
  • Debt reductions and moratoriums
  • Continuation plan
  • Business restructuring plan
  • Sale of productive units (PU)
  • Asset liquidation
  • Defense of clawback actions
  • Appearance as a creditor party
  • Employment regulation proceedings (ERE)
  • Bankruptcy administration
  • Challenge of claims
  • Compulsory bankruptcy
  • Qualification files and administrators’ liability
Second Chance Law:
  • Discharge of unsatisfied liabilities and debt extinguishment
  • Extinction and cancellation of loans, guarantees, and mortgage execution remnants
  • Bankruptcy without assets
  • Bankruptcy with a payment plan
  • Exclusion of the family home
  • Business restructuring and continuation
  • Self-employed individuals
  • Public debt
  • Challenge of reports
  • Delinquency management
  • Financial and legal report

COMMERCIAL LAW

  • Trademarks and patents
  • Incorporation and creation of companies
  • Buying and selling businesses
  • Corporate disputes
  • Sale of shares
  • Audits
  • Acquisitions and mergers
  • Dissolution and liquidation of companies
  • Corporate restructurings
  • Agency, distribution, franchise, and transportation contracts
  • Calling and attending general meetings
  • Ungovernability
  • Corporate liability
  • Foundations, associations, and cooperatives
  • Communities of property

FAMILY LAW

  • Divorces by contentious or mutual agreement
  • Express procedure
  • Separations
  • International divorces
  • Family mediation
  • De facto couples
  • Use, limitations, and allocation of the marital home
  • Guardianship, custody, and parental authority
  • Pet custody
  • Child support
  • Request and civil and/or criminal claims for child support
  • Compensatory pension
  • Visitation rights
  • Grandparents’ visitation rights
  • Noncompliance with the regulatory agreement
  • Modification of divorce, separation, or custody measures
  • Termination and dissolution of joint ownership and common property
  • Adoptions
  • Paternity and filiation claims
  • Modification of parent-child measures
  • Judicial enforcement procedures for noncompliance with agreements
  • Voluntary jurisdiction proceedings
  • Prenuptial agreements
  • Paternity and filiation claims, recognition, and challenges
  • Matrimonial property regime
  • Community property
  • Separation of property
  • Matrimonial annulment

INHERITANCE LAW

  • Succession provisions
  • Wills
  • Legitim, legacies and pre-legacies, claims, supplements and complements
  • Falcidian fourth
  • Widow’s fourth
  • Appointment of executor, estate accountant, and administrators
  • Inheritance proceedings and will challenges
  • Renunciations
  • Disinheritances
  • Division of inheritances and common property
  • Acceptance of inheritance pure and simple or with benefit of inventory
  • Hereditary allocations
  • Judicial succession processes
  • Legal assistance in defense of hereditary interests
  • Inheritance planning in family businesses
  • Succession planning
  • Taxation and fiscal matters

BANKING LAW

  • Preferred shares and subordinated bonds
  • Interest rate swaps and financial swaps
  • Structured deposits
  • Convertible and/or exchangeable bonds
  • Alternative investment instruments
  • Fraud and negligence
  • Debt negotiation and restructuring
  • Private equity
  • Investment funds and products
  • Credit scoring
  • Revolving credit cards
  • IRPH
  • Claims for mortgage formation expenses
  • Floor clauses
  • Abusive interest
  • Mortgage law
  • Debt in kind and for payment
  • Consumers and users
  • Claims before the Bank of Spain and the National Securities Market Commission
  • Malpractice and complex banking products
  • Vulture funds
  • Early maturity
  • ICO loans
  • Guarantee and surety

PROCEDURAL LAW

  • Declarative proceedings (Ordinary and summary trials)
  • Preliminary proceedings
  • Precautionary measures
  • Procedure for civil protection of the Right to honor, personal and family privacy, and image
  • Payment order and exchange proceedings
  • Enforcement of judicial and non-judicial titles
  • Seizures and auctions
  • Nullity of proceedings
  • Mediation, conciliation, and arbitration
  • Claims for debts and contractual breaches
  • Evictions and rent claims
  • Claims for damages and losses
  • Actions for contractual and non-contractual liability
  • Contract termination and rescission
  • Payment order and exchange proceedings
  • Appearance in bankruptcy proceedings
  • Courts of First Instance
  • Family Courts
  • Investigative, Criminal, and Juvenile Courts
  • Commercial Courts
  • Labor Courts
  • Administrative Courts
  • Ecclesiastical Tribunals
  • Provincial Courts
  • High Courts of Justice
  • Supreme Court
  • Constitutional Court
  • Appeals
  • European and International Community Law

TAX LAW

GMB Advocates has a tax law department that will advise you in judicial processes before the Tax Agency, in tax requirements and inspections, providing the following services:
  • General Taxation: Planning of Income Tax (IRPF), Corporate Tax, and VAT
  • Foundations and non-profit associations. Taxation of artists and athletes
  • Real estate taxation
  • Inspection procedures, Tax Litigation, and crimes against the Tax Agency
  • Consultations before the Directorate General of Taxes
  • Assistance and advice in tax inspections
  • Claims before Economic-Administrative Courts
  • Claims before courts of justice
  • Advice on application of accounting regulations

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