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RocaJunyent

Europe Guide 2024

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+34 93 241 9200

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Provided by RocaJunyent
Europe

Honorary Chairman : Miquel Roca Junyent

Managing Partner: Joan Roca Sagarra

Number of partners worldwide: 42

Number of lawyers worldwide: 113

Number of professionals: 234

Languages: Catalan, English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Romanian and Spanish.

Firm Overview:

RocaJunyent is a law firm with a multidisciplinary team of more than 110 lawyers specialising in all areas of commercial law, and in particular M&A, banking and finance, dispute resolution and tax. Founded in 1996, the firm has offices in Madrid, Barcelona and Girona, as well as across the entire Spanish territory as part of the RocaJunyent Group. Specifically, these offices are located in Palma de Mallorca, Lleida, Málaga, Seville, Bilbao, Burgos, Valladolid, Badajoz and Ibiza. It offers advice in all areas of law, especially those of commercial, banking and financial, procedural and tax law. RocaJunyent is an exclusive member in Spain of the international Terralex network.

Main Areas of Practice:

General Advice to Companies:

Incorporation and legal development of companies; advice on the decision-making, administration and management bodies; preliminary studies regarding specific aspects of their business; legal advice on new projects and initiatives; legal relations with the authorities.

Mergers & Acquisitions:

Advice on purchases and divestitures by public and private companies, tender offers, IPOs, restructurings, spin-offs, leveraged buyouts, joint ventures, private equity and venture capital funds. Competition: Legal advice on issues related to competition in the market. Proceedings brought before the Spanish and EU authorities.

Banking & Finance:

Legal advice to credit institutions and savings banks, both regarding institutional and regulatory issues as well as specialised contracts.

Commercial Contracts:

Advice on all kinds of commercial contracts subject to national, international or EU law. Corporate Products: Legal advice on manufacturing, sale and distribution of products; third-party liability for defective products; product packaging and labelling.

Investment:

Advice on foreign investment in Spain and Spanish investment abroad, as well as the legal structures through which such investments are made; legal advice on all kinds of financial transactions abroad, including notification of loans, credits, technical assistance and other collection and payment transactions carried out by residents and non-residents.

Entrepreneur Support:

Legal advice to entrepreneurs according to the new legal framework specific to these professionals being implemented in the Spanish legal system, accompanying them from the embryo stage of their projects through to the expansion and consolidation of their businesses.

Taxation:

Tax advice to companies and individuals, both domestic and international; taxation on corporate reorganisation; advice regarding inspections and proceedings related to the Inland Revenue Services; drawing up, submitting and following up the various personal and corporate income tax returns; administrative and appeal proceedings relating to tax issues.

City Planning:

Advice on all kinds of issues related to city planning law. Drawing up drafts for urban development, managing the obligations resulting from using land and property and advice on obtaining licences and permits.

Property & Construction:

Legal advice on property development and management, especially in relation to the hotel and tourism sector. Building contracts: works, projects and technical assistance contracts.

Intellectual & Industrial Property:

Legal services related to copyrights and other intellectual property rights, patents, trademarks and industrial property rights.

Audiovisual Rights:

Contracts for producing or co-producing cinema and audiovisual works, radio and television programmes and multimedia; contracts for use of script, direction, production and interpretation rights; distribution and screening contracts; contracts to finance audiovisual productions or co-productions.

Administrative Contracts & Concessions:

Advice on public procurement contracts and advice to companies and individuals in their relations with the public authorities; legal action against the public authorities.

Employment:

Advice regarding individual and collective disputes in the Labour Courts and with the labour authorities; labour contracts; collective bargaining; labour inspections.

Insolvency & Corporate Restructuring:

Advice regarding bankruptcy, creditors meetings and arrangements; legal defence of creditors; advice and participation in receivership and liquidation commissions; hedge funds.

Litigation:

Defence of the clients’ interests in civil and criminal proceedings in all jurisdictions and courts: the Constitutional Court, the Supreme Court, the High Courts of Justice, Magistrates Courts and Hearings.

Arbitration:

Involvement in legal or equity arbitration procedures as arbitrators, whether appointed by institutions (the CCI – International Court of Arbitration, the TAB – the Barcelona Arbitration Court) or directly by the parties; initiating arbitration and acting therein as the client’s legal counsel.

Blockchain:

Collaboration on projects that develop solutions based on blockchain using smart contracts, as well as structuring financing operations through structured tokens such as ICO or STO. Validation, from a legal point of view, of business models that use blockchain. Cryptocurrencies and crypto-assets.

Fintech:

Collaboration with national and international companies within different fintech verticals regarding regulatory validation of their business models, processing of authorisations and compliance with new regulatory developments.

Healthcare:

Legal advice to pharmaceutical and healthcare companies on matters related to manufacturing of medical devices and authorisation to market them.

eSports:

Legal advice to clubs, sports corporations, sports associations, federations and athletes, as well as other entities and companies related to the eSports sector.

Corporate Sustainability:

Legal advice to companies on their adaptation to ESG criteria in order to improve the services they provide through a more efficient and responsible use of their resources.

Ranked Offices

Provided by RocaJunyent

Spain - Head office
Spain

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Raul Salas
Elena Ferrer-Sama
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Raul Salas, Elena Ferrer-Sama
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Elena Ferrer-Sama
Raúl Salas
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Elena Ferrer-Sama, Raúl Salas
Article • Mar 2024

RocaJunyent rankings

Europe Guide 2024
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Band
Spain
Banking & Finance
1 Department
1 Ranked Lawyer
Department
Banking & Finance
5
Banking & Finance
5
Band 5
Lawyers
José Luis Pita da Veiga
6
José Luis Pita da Veiga
6
Band 6
Competition/European Law
1 Ranked Lawyer
Lawyers
Gerard Pérez Olmo
4
Gerard Pérez Olmo
4
Band 4
Corporate/Commercial: Barcelona
1 Department
2 Ranked Lawyers
Department
Corporate/Commercial: Barcelona
3
Corporate/Commercial: Barcelona
3
Band 3
Lawyers
Miquel Roca Junyent
S
Miquel Roca Junyent
S
Senior Statespeople
Joan Roca
3
Joan Roca
3
Band 3
Dispute Resolution
1 Ranked Lawyer
Lawyers
Marlen Estévez
4
Marlen Estévez
4
Band 4
Dispute Resolution: Barcelona
1 Department
1 Ranked Lawyer
Department
Dispute Resolution: Barcelona
3
Dispute Resolution: Barcelona
3
Band 3
Lawyers
Gonzalo Serrano
4
Gonzalo Serrano
4
Band 4
Employment: Barcelona
1 Department
2 Ranked Lawyers
Department
Employment: Barcelona
2
Employment: Barcelona
2
Band 2
Lawyers
Albert Rodríguez
2
Albert Rodríguez
2
Band 2
María José Sánchez
4
María José Sánchez
4
Band 4
Employment: Highly Regarded
1 Department
Department
Employment: Highly Regarded
3
Employment: Highly Regarded
3
Band 3
Intellectual Property
1 Department
Department
Intellectual Property
5
Intellectual Property
5
Band 5
Intellectual Property: Trade Marks
1 Ranked Lawyer
Lawyers
Javier Vázquez
5
Javier Vázquez
5
Band 5
Public Law: Barcelona
1 Department
1 Ranked Lawyer
Department
Public Law: Barcelona
3
Public Law: Barcelona
3
Band 3
Lawyers
Manuel José Silva
3
Manuel José Silva
3
Band 3
Restructuring/Insolvency: Barcelona
1 Department
1 Ranked Lawyer
Department
Restructuring/Insolvency: Barcelona
3
Restructuring/Insolvency: Barcelona
3
Band 3
Lawyers
Juan Antonio Borràs
3
Juan Antonio Borràs
3
Band 3
Tax
1 Department
1 Ranked Lawyer
Department
Tax
5
Tax
5
Band 5
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