De Pedraza Abogados, S.L.P.

Chairman & Managing Partner: Mar De Pedraza
Number of partners: 1
Number of lawyers: 4
Languages: English, French, Gallego, Italian and Spanish

Firm Overview:
De Pedraza Abogados (Madrid) is a boutique law firm specialising in criminal law, committed to providing its clients with highly sophisticated criminal law advice. Its specialist legal advisory services cover the traditional pre-litigation and litigation side of criminal law cases, in which it represents clients as the defence or prosecution, and the more novel ‘preventive’ side of corporate defence and compliance, which has become a central part of criminal law advice since December 2010. De Pedraza is able to act before the various criminal law courts in defence of the interests of individual or corporate clients – either as defence or prosecution lawyers, at all stages of the proceedings, including vis-à-vis any relevant public registries. The firm’s lawyers advise companies which may be in any way subject to the jurisdiction of the Spanish criminal courts, ensuring that they have a suitable corporate compliance system in place in order to prevent or mitigate criminal liability. It is a law firm also specialised in conducting internal investigations of national and multinational companies.

Main Areas of Practice:

-Criminal Law
-Corporate Compliance
-Internal Corporate Investigations

Criminal Law Practice:
De Pedraza is specialised in providing advisory services in pre-litigation and litigation side (as defence or prosecution) of the so-called white-collar crimes, such as:

■ Bribery and corruption, both in private sector and in international economic transactions
■ Economic crimes in the public sector, such as, influence peddling, misappropriation of public funds, embezzlement of public funds, fraud and illegal levies, illegal negotiations and activities carried out by public officials and breaches in trust in the performance of their duties
■ Money laundering
■ Fraud
■ Corporate offences, such as accounting fraud, disloyal administration and misappropriation
■ Tax crimes and offences against the social welfare system
■ Subsidy frauds
■ Insolvency and bankruptcy-related crimes
■ Securities fraud
■ Environmental crimes
■ Electoral offences
■ Crimes against industrial and intellectual property
■ Crimes against workers’ rights
■ Document forgery
■ Misappropriation

Corporate Compliance:
In the corporate compliance area, De Pedraza is specialised in providing guidelines to companies for the best implementation of Corporate Compliance Programmes to avoid future prosecutions or lessen criminal impact. De Pedraza also focuses in reviewing and updating existing policies to new regulations and trends, determine the main risk areas for each company, training and coaching.

Internal Investigations:
In terms of internal investigations, De Pedraza focuses on coordinating all the multidisciplinary teams involved in a criminal investigation (auditors, forensic, labour experts, tax experts, compliance teams, etc.), reviews all the steps given by such multidisciplinary teams and analyses them from a criminal standpoint to ensure the observance of the law and the procedures so that the company is protected against future claims. De Pedraza also gives guidance to proactively mitigate or avoid criminal prosecution of the company in the future by providing action plans to improve the corporate compliance programmes and advice on next steps to avoid future misconducts. Lastly, De Pedraza also leads and performs internal investigations delivering reports (or providing support to the company with the drafting of such reports), where the procedures followed during the internal investigation, the misconducts, the people involved, the criminal risks and the different scenarios the company may confront are analysed in depth.

Contact: De Pedraza Abogados
Tel: +34 91 532 39 43
Email: [email protected]