Oliva Ayala Abogados

Managing Partner: Ignacio Ayala Gómez

Partners: Javier Sánchez-Vera Gómez-Trelles, María Gutiérrez Rodríguez, Laura Martínez-Sanz Collados, Rafael Alcácer Guirao

Number of lawyers: 12

Languages: Spanish, English, German, French. 

Firm Details 

Oliva-Ayala Abogados has been a benchmark in criminal law in Spain for more than 30 years. Its commitment to excellence in the legal profession has earned the firm the trust of the most demanding clients in the most complex and relevant matters in the country over the course of three decades.

Founding partners Horacio Oliva García and Ignacio Ayala Gómez transformed the original firm into a firm specialising exclusively in criminal law, surrounding themselves with some of the best specialists in the field. The lawyers at Oliva-Ayala share a vocation for practising law, the rigour that comes from technical and academic excellence, and a firm commitment to offering our clients a high added-value service.

Oliva-Ayala Abogados specialises in defending preventive, pre-procedural and procedural interests (defence, injured party, private prosecution, etc.) in any area of criminal law, with special dedication to business criminal law.

Economic and corporate criminal law

Main Areas of Practice 

Economic and corporate criminal law

• Corporate offences
• Negligent insolvencies and asset stripping
• Money laundering
• Offences arising from insolvency proceedings
• Tax offences and other offences against public finances and social security
• Fraud, misappropriation and mismanagement
• Intellectual and industrial property offences
• Forgery, in public and private documents, credit cards, etc.
• Corruption offences between private individuals
• Crimes against the market and consumers
• Theft and robbery

Liability of legal entities and criminal risk management

• Internal investigations
• Design, development and maintenance of compliance programmes (criminal compliance)
• Criminal defence of legal entities
• Civil liability in criminal matters

Cybercrime and disclosure of secrets

• Computer crimes
• Cybercrime against privacy and the right to one’s own image (hacking, sexting and revenge porn)
• Cybercrime of damage and sabotage (cracking and pharming)
• Cybercrime against property (phishing and phreaking)
• Cybercrime against honour and personal freedom (cyberbullying)
• Cybercrime against sexual freedom and sexual indemnity (child grooming)
• Cybercrime against intellectual property and related rights

Defence and advice on civil liability in criminal proceedings

• Corporate offences
• Negligent insolvencies and asset stripping
• Money laundering
• Offences arising from insolvency proceedings
• Tax offences and other offences against public finances and social security
• Fraud, misappropriation and mismanagement
• Intellectual and industrial property offences
• Forgery, in public and private documents, credit cards, etc.
• Corruption offences between private individuals
• Crimes against the market and consumers
• Theft and robbery

Liability of legal entities and criminal risk management

• Internal investigations
• Design, development and maintenance of compliance programmes (criminal compliance)
• Criminal defence of legal entities
• Civil liability in criminal matters

International criminal law

• Extraditions and EU arrest and surrender orders
• International prison law
• Offences against the international community

Cybercrime and disclosure of secrets

• Computer crimes
• Cybercrime against privacy and the right to one’s own image (hacking, sexting and revenge porn)
• Cybercrime of damage and sabotage (cracking and pharming)
• Cybercrime against property (phishing and phreaking)
• Cybercrime against honour and personal freedom (cyberbullying)
• Cybercrime against sexual freedom and sexual indemnity (child grooming)
• Cybercrime against intellectual property and related rights

Defence and advice on civil liability in criminal proceedings

Offenses against public administrations and the administration of justice

• Malfeasance and bribery
• Influence peddling and embezzlement of public funds
• Unfaithfulness in the custody of documents
• False accusations and reportss
• Illegal financing of political parties

Offences against the constitution and public order

• Disorderly conduct
• Organized crime
• Offenses against public health
• Offences relating to the exercise of fundamental rights and public freedoms

Offences against persons and collective interests

• Offences against sexual freedom and indemnity
• Discovery and disclosure of secrets
• Offences against workers’ rights
• Land use planning, town planning
• Environmental offences
• Manslaughter and murder
• Kidnapping, threats and coercion
• Offences against privacy and honour
• Breaking and entering
• Human trafficking and torture

Reports and opinions in all areas of criminal law

Pardons and prison law

Clients 

It is the strict policy of the firm not to disclose the names of its clients. Its high net worth clients include high net worth individuals, company directors and board members, family groups, public and private companies in all kind of sectors, including multinational as well as medium and large sized Spanish and international companies.