Advice and processing of foreign investment in Spain, Spanish residents abroad and administrative proceedings and dossiers. Movement of capital and exchange controls.

• This section deals with acquisition, takeover, sale and merger of companies.
• Domestic and foreign legal advice, strategy, negotiation and drafting of purchase and sale contracts, decision-controlling interest and advice on mergers and acquisitions.
• Advice, strategy, negotiation and drafting of purchase and sale contracts, decision-controlling interest, and legal advice on mergers and acquisitions, both domestic and foreign.
  Belzuz has extensive experience in all sectors of economic activity. 
• Legal audit (due diligence) ,diagnostics and troubleshooting.
• Analysis of the regulatory and competition issues (concentrations and authorizations).
• We also participate in and advise on project finance transactions and private equity.

Under this heading we include negotiation, drafting and conclusion of civil and commercial contracts including special contracts.

Specific and ongoing advice on contract law and contracts, including general conditions of contract. Intervention and negotiation in all types of civil, national and international trade (sales, turnkey supply, agencies, franchise, distribution, technical assistance, etc), INCOTERMS, Documentary Credits and all warranties and instruments used in national and international trade. Contracts.

Our firm's experience in matters relating to the regulation of economic activity and competition law include the following

• Anti-trust practices.
• Unfair Competition.
• Control of economic cartels
• Control of grants and subsidies.
• Public Relations with national administrations and EU institutions.
• Administrative sanctions.

This is without prejudicing the necessary legal assistance and defense of the rights and interests of parties to proceedings before the National Competition Commission or its regional counterparts, the European Commission and the European Court of Justice.

Belzuz has a department specializing in real estate and construction which has been providing continuous legal expertise in Real Estate undertakings, specifically:

• Sales, technical assistance contracts, subcontracting, leasing, mediation, management and property management, contract management and asset management and financing contracts and negotiating guarantees.
• Town Planning: technical and legal requirements and decennial responsibility of the parties involved in the construction process.
• Horizontal real estate.
• Private Property development (marketing agreements for the promotion, sale of buildings, shopping centers, business and leisure parks, etc).

• Advice on Inventions.
  Drafting contracts for the exploitation of rights, assignment and licensing of patents and know-how, confidentiality, counselling and intervention in court proceedings concerning the infringement or validity of patents or utility models, national, European or PCT patents and utility models. Legal reports on patentability of inventions, infringement or validity of rights.
• Advice on distinctive logos.
  Drafting of sale, merchandising and licensing or joint venture. Counselling and intervention in court proceedings in respect of infringements and piracy, revocation and expiration of trademarks, industrial design and unfair competition. National and international registration of trademarks and designs. Defense of brands and designs, oppositions and appeals. Police and customs operations. Feasibility reports and user registration.
• Advice on intellectual property.
  Drafting of contracts for the transfer and exploitation of rights. Registration of rights and protection of intellectual property (software, databases, audiovisual, phonographic works, multimedia works, software, graphic works, etc). Counselling and intervention in court proceedings regarding violations of intellectual property rights.
• Advertising and Media Advice.
  Drafting advertising contracts, sponsorship, grant of rights, use of intellectual creations. Advising on advertising campaigns, promotions and labeling. Comparative advertising, advertising on-line. Conflict Resolution.

• Advice on Data Protection.
  • Adequate company legislation for the protection of personal data, policies and procedures, registration of files, drafting of contracts for data processing services of a personal nature.
  • Audits and compliance projects and adjustment to regulations relating to protection of personal data.
  • Advice on international data transfers.
  • Legal defense in disciplinary procedures taken by the Spanish Agency for Data Protection (AEPD).
  • Drafting security documents, intergroup transfers.
• Advice on Electronic Commerce.
  • Drafting of contracts with service providers, content providers, legal notices, products and services, sales offers and promotional campaigns and general conditions of use.
  • Responsibility for content distributed via electronic channels.
  • Advice and defense to consumer complaints and disciplinary procedures.
  • Recovery of domain names.
• Advice on money laundering.
• Policies and procedures for customer identification and knowledge.
• Creation and maintenance of regulatory and control bodies.
• Inspections.
• Administrative records, enforcement, judicial reviews.

• Implementation of projects, negotiations and implementation of a wide variety of pharmaceutical contracts such as contracts and agreements clinical process of production, supply and distribution.
• Conduct and drafting, negotiation and execution of confidentiality agreements, licensing, joint marketing, joint development and cooperation agreements.
• Pharmaceutical distribution. Logistics associated with pharmaceutical distribution.
• Labelling and advertising of medicines.
• Product Liability
• Advice on issues of competition and unfair competition related to pharmaceutical manufacturing and distribution.
• Commercial Operations, acquisition, takeover, sale and merger of companies in the pharmaceutical sector.

• Complaints to consumer organizations (OMIC, autonomous regions, etc.). Appeals to the Ombudsman and Head of Customer Service (where necessary).
• Consumer Arbitration - Labelling Boards and presentation of products (nutrition claims, health claims, mandatory labelling).
• Litigation in illegal advertising, on product liability and consumer rights.
• Food security and safety (traceability systems, hazard analysis and critical control points, health inspections at points of sale, food crises).
• Obtaining registrations and permissions for use and marketing of food (new, functional food supplements, products) and systems of accreditation and certification of food quality (Denomination of Origin, Geographical Indications, Traditional Speciality Guarantees).
• Drafting of food distribution.