MLAB Abogados, SLP

Managing partners: Rafael Allendesalazar, Helmut Brokelmann

Number of partners: 5

Number of lawyers: 11

Languages: English, French, German, Italian, Spanish 

Firm Overview: 

By relying on the best professionals and treating each matter with the dedication it requires, MLAB has earned the trust and respect of leading companies and institutions across a wide variety of sectors, both in Spain and abroad, over the course of almost 40 years.

The firm is particularly well positioned to advise and defend companies in all areas of activity of the Spanish Commission for Markets and Competition (CNMC), both in competition law and regulatory matters.

MLAB advocates for its clients before any institution or court, in Spain and in the European Union.

The core of its legal practice consists of advising and defending its clients on restrictive practices (in particular, cartels and abuses of dominant position, as well as unfair competition practices) and advising on restraints arising from public intervention in the market (State aid, industry regulation, State obstacles to business activity).

MLAB’s expertise extends to counselling companies on potential antitrust problems of mergers. MLAB engages in complex notification processes, representing its clients before the CNMC in Spain and the European Commission.

The firm has a robust presence in the field of private enforcement of competition law, specifically in compensation for damages caused by competition law infringements, an area in vibrant legislative and judicial development.

MLAB’s practice extends beyond competition and EU law.

MLAB also defends companies and other entities across a wide spectrum of areas such as unfair competition, regulatory matters (in sectors such as transport, telecommunications and audiovisual, postal services, pharmaceutical, digital economy, sports, energy, tobacco and gambling, among others) and intellectual and industrial property. MLAB’s expertise allows to address the problems and opportunities its clients confront in their operations and those posed by competitors, suppliers and customers, as well as by government intervention.

To meet the growing global needs of its clients, MLAB teams up with the most prestigious professionals from around the world, enabling to deliver international legal services with the same unwavering excellence in multijurisdictional cases.

The firm primarily serves companies and public sector entities, as well as trade associations in a variety of industries. And MLAB also advises professional associations, collecting societies, Spanish authorities and European Union bodies.

Main Areas of Practice:

Competition/European Law 

Contact: Helmut Brokelmann

Tel: +34 914264470

Email: [email protected]