Public & Regulatory Law

Structuring requests and accompanying administrative procedures, preparing applications, legal opinions, and contractual or procedural drafts, and conducting negotiations with public entities.

Preparation and submission of requests for access and reuse of administrative information, including deadline management, hierarchical appeals, and representation of economic operators before CADA.

Support in the development of internal transparency policies and document management processes that reduce litigation and response times.

• At the procurement stage, defining the participation strategy, analyzing the tender documents, structuring proposals and substantiating technical and economic requirements, as well as providing support with clarification requests, submissions during the prior hearing phase on reports, administrative challenges, and the management of prelitigation and precontractual litigation.
• During the contract execution stage, supporting contract management, requests and control of additional works, price revisions, deadline extensions, requests for restoration of the contractual economic financial balance, subcontracting, assignment of contractual position, and incidents of noncompliance (e.g., preparing responses to draft decisions imposing contractual penalties or, in extreme cases, contract termination), thereby mitigating sanctioning and reputational risk.

Conducting legal compliance audits in public procurement and delivering training programmes for commercial, procurement, and operations teams.

Drafting guidance manuals on compliance with obligations arising from public procurement legislation and related regulations.

Support in the development of real estate, industrial and infrastructure projects, from legal and urban planning due diligence and legal feasibility analysis of projects, through requests for prior information (PIP), analysis in light of detailed plans and allotment operations, to licensing and prior communications.

Analysis of the legal feasibility of projects and urban planning proposals in light of territorial management instruments and other constraints resulting from environmental protection regimes (e.g. RAN, REN, Natura 2000 Network).

Support in the analysis and submission of statements within public consultations, as well as in the structuring of administrative appeals and judicial challenges relating the tax assessment (e.g., fees for the construction, maintenance and reinforcement of urban infrastructure, compensation for lack of land transfer to the municipal domain).

Advice throughout the entire life cycle of electricity, oil, petroleum products and gas assets, renewable energies and networks, including electric mobility.

Support in production and exploration licensing procedures (including self-consumption, UPAC and energy communities), grid connection requests and capacity upgrades.

Support in the purchase and sale of renewable asset portfolios, negotiation of power purchase agreements (PPAs), and asset operation and maintenance contracts.

Planning and support in the execution of strategies in the context of environmental licensing procedures, including environmental impact assessment and conformity report, industrial emissions, noise, soil and environmental liabilities.

Advice on procedures for obtaining operator licences, structuring and negotiating contracts with waste management systems, as well as transactions involving waste, by-products or other materials with similar characteristics.

Preparation of legal opinions on issues related to waste production and management, product packaging and issues related to extended producer responsibility and other specific waste streams.

Support in procedures for obtaining usage rights (e.g. collection, discharge, occupation), public water domain usage regimes and compatibility with territorial and environmental constraints. 

Support in monitoring and updating environmental obligations (in particular regarding environmental liability and soil contamination) and compliance audits.

Advice on administrative offence procedures (e.g., response to inspections and defence in sanctioning proceedings), with the aim of ensuring the operational continuity of the production unit.

Preparation of recommendation manuals regarding compliance with obligations arising from applicable environmental legislation.

Advising private healthcare operators on the licensing, operation and supervision of establishments before the competent public authorities, namely INFARMED, ACSS and ERS, including service provision, quality and safety models.

Support throughout the life cycle of regulated products (medicines, medical devices, cosmetics and food supplements), from obtaining the relevant authorisation to import, distribution and marketing procedures.

Conducting legal compliance analysis of all product communications, including advertising, labelling and promotional materials.

Support in obtaining and maintaining territorial and online gaming licences, structuring concessions and contracts with suppliers, approving rules and platforms, and communicating with the regulator.

Structuring and implementation of compliance and internal control programmes, responsible gaming policies and regulatory reporting, and representation of operators in inspection and sanctioning proceedings, ensuring operational continuity and licence protection.

Advising economic operators on the import, export, transit and brokering of defence and dual-use goods and technologies, including licensing before the competent authorities and the implementation of internal compliance controls.

Support in the interpretation and application of the applicable legal framework on security and defence, embargoes, sanctions and export controls, as well as in liaising with relevant national and international entities.

Advice to expropriated individuals at all stages of the expropriation procedure.

Legal representation in contentious expropriation proceedings aimed at determining compensation, as well as in reversion proceedings.

Support in industrial licensing (SIR), including the installation and operation of establishments, relevant changes and closure.

Advice in other sectors such as veterinary medical centres, private and cooperative educational establishments, and postal and transport services, ensuring interactions with the competent authorities.

Representation in administrative litigation and administrative offence proceedings.

Support in proceedings for the challenge of administrative acts, administrative claims and injunctions, as well as hierarchical appeals and other administrative remedies.

Support and representation in pre-litigation and negotiation, seeking ways to regularise and mitigate risks to the business.