Public Authorities

Our advice provides a specific and comprehensive response to the needs of Public Authorities.

We know how the State, regional and local authorities work, and we know all about their daily concerns and the major challenges facing this type of public bodies.

At times, issues are common to the three territorial levels; at times, specific to each jurisdiction.

On the other hand, we assist and represent different institutions and bodies of the Union, such as the European Commission, the European Economic and Social Committee or the European Committee of the Regions, both before the Courts of Justice of the European Union and the national courts to defend their interests.

Our advice to the Public Authorities is focused on:

• Administrative and public sector contracts (concessions, public works, management of services, etc.)
• Authority- and publicly-owned property
• Public Authority’s liability and expropriation (compulsory purchase/eminent domain)
• Regulated sectors: energy (electricity, gas, hydrocarbons), telecommunications, transport and postal services, food and agriculture, health, defence, gambling
• Collective bargaining (bargaining, agreements, improvement clauses)
• Terms of employment (illegal assignment, substantial modification of working conditions, working hours, unpaid leaves of absence and collective redundancies)
• Incorporation, advice and liquidation of mixed-economy companies