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Suárez de la Dehesa Abogados

Suarez de la Dehesa was established more than fifty years ago and is based in two cities - Madrid and Tangier. The firm is especially active in commercial litigation and taxation and is internationally regarded as a specialist in Copyrights, Audiovisual Contents, Intellectual Property, Information Technologies and Entertainment law.

The partners recognise that the legal marketplace is client driven and aim to offer clients premium service and niche expertise at competitive prices. As a result, the firm emphasises a plain-speaking, straightforward and value-for-money approach.

The firm is renowned throughout Spain for its extensive legal expertise in the audiovisual and film industries, including financing, co-production, contracting of materials and human resources and exploitation.  Its lawyers have provided legal services on more than 160 long-featured film productions, TV movies, short films, documentaries, animation series and films, and television contents, including international co-productions and productions awarded in national and international film festivals.

Its intellectual property and copyright team has extensive experience and expertise and is considered one of the premier Spanish law firms in this field.  Work includes advertising, sales promotions, marketing and trade description law, computer law, copyrights, film, television and entertainment products and services; multimedia exploitation, passing off, publishing, defamation and Spanish and EU Competition law. Suarez de la Dehesa is recommended by The European Legal 500 for Intellectual Property.

The firm handles all aspects of corporate and commercial law including incorporations, reorganisations, takeovers and mergers, management buy outs and joint ventures (Spanish and international); loan debenture and equity finance, syndications, consumer credit; partnership agreements; EU law; commercial contracts, including agency distribution and finance agreements; entertainment and media law; privatisations.

Its lawyers assist in all tax aspects of corporate mergers and acquisitions, disposals and re-organisations, property tax, off-shore trading arrangements, insurance, company pension schemes and tax appeals.

The firm represents its clients in a broad spectrum of commercial litigation ranging from simple debt collection to complex contractual, company and partnership disputes and insolvency matters. It also handles property-related litigation including landlord and tenant matters. Cross department teams focus on telecommunications and environmental law.

Suarez de la Dehesa was one of the first law firms in Spain to recognise the strategic commercial importance of having an office in Morocco and opened there in 2005.

It acts for foreign clients doing business in Spain, as well as Spanish clients. Their lawyers speak English, Spanish, French, Italian and Arabic.