Practice Areas

We work to offer you innovative legal solutions adapted to the changes of today's society

The extensive experience of our team across the different branches of Law enables us to offer comprehensive, personalised, and excellent legal advice to our clients, both individuals and businesses.

Area 01

Fundamental Rights

Fundamental rights are basic human rights of a universal, inalienable, and non-derogable nature, founded on the values of dignity, freedom, and equality, which enjoy jurisdictional protection. At Silvestre Advocats we carry out the necessary actions to protect the fundamental rights of our clients, whether through ordinary proceedings or the extraordinary Habeas Corpus, urgent and preferential procedures established in the Constitution.

Habeas Corpus proceedings
Urgent and preferential proceedings
Ordinary proceedings
Rights of reply and rectification

Area 02

Criminal

Undisputed leaders in Criminal Law in the Principality of Andorra. The firm has extensive experience and high specialisation across all branches of Criminal Law, offering defence for individuals and legal entities or private prosecution.

Corporate Defence & Prevention

Corporate defence and prevention in economic criminal matters
Continuous staff training
Multi-jurisdictional criminal analysis for companies
Criminal risk assessment and defence coordination
Corporate criminal liability supervision
Forensic criminal defence for companies
Criminal risk prevention for businesses

Area 03

Civil

The clear differentiation of civil and commercial actions that we offer at Silvestre Advocats provides our clients with a detailed, high-quality service. We carry out all types of civil actions governing the rights and obligations of individuals from birth to death.

Contractual negotiation
Horizontal property (condominiums)
Contract drafting
Leases
Quantity claims
Obligations and contracts
Constitution of real guarantees between private parties
Civil purchases and sales
Constitution of usufructs
Possessory injunctions

Area 04

Commercial

We provide all the services your company, business or partnership needs. Our academic background endorses our expertise in Commercial Law, addressing actions arising from and related to commercial activities.

Silvestre Advocats does not provide international tax advice, tax efficiency structures or advice on corporate trusts.

Commercial purchases, sales and contracts
Lease agreements
Intellectual and industrial property
Trademark registration management
Data protection
New technologies
Company formation and liquidation
Statute drafting and modification
Shareholder agreement advisory
Analysis of partner and board member liability
Challenge of corporate resolutions
Administrative body liability actions
Business openings
Payment suspensions and insolvency proceedings

Area 05

Administrative

We transform the technical complexity of administrative processes into appropriate solutions for our clients through our legal expertise and a deep knowledge of central and municipal administration procedures.

Advisory to the public sector on contract preparation and adjudication
Advisory to private clients on public procurement procedures and execution
Advisory on public law in regulated sectors: financial, telecommunications, energy, pharmaceutical and healthcare
Administrative litigation
Public administration liability for damages
Appeals against administrative infractions and sanctions
Proceedings before supervisory and audit bodies
Expropriations
Grants and subsidies
Urban planning

Area 06

Family & Succession

Rather than litigating couple break-ups, we prioritise above all the wellbeing of all members of the family. Our team offers experience in resolving family conflicts efficiently, protecting the emotional wellbeing of minors.

Family Law

Separations and divorces
Incapacitation and guardianship proceedings
Domestic partnership registration
Custody and visitation arrangements
Spousal support and compensatory pensions
Liquidation of marital economic regimes
Emergency provisional measures
Urgent provisional relief measures

Succession Law

Testament planning and strategy
Executor administration duties
Heir declarations
Conditional inheritance acceptance (benefit of inventory)
Usufruct rights and bare ownership transfers
Legitimate portion claims
Final will certificates
Inheritance renunciations

Area 07

International

We facilitate the defence of our clients' interests outside the Principality of Andorra in a direct and effective manner, through coordination with collaborators in Spain, France, the United States, South America and Central America. We also offer the possibility of bringing cases before the European Court of Human Rights.

Exequaturs (foreign judgment recognition)
Extraditions
Enforcement of sentences abroad
Actions before the European Court of Human Rights
International coordination of cases and proceedings

Area 08

Labour

We offer all specific services in the labour field affecting companies and workers. Our team evaluates situations and finds effective solutions for workplace conflicts through tailored advice and appropriate judicial and administrative actions.

Workplace safety and hygiene measures
Employment contract drafting
Resignations, dismissals, disciplinary infractions and sanctions
Employee manuals and conduct protocols
Collective bargaining agreement negotiations
Disciplinary fault and sanction drafting and contestation
Legal defence in labour proceedings
Representation before the Labour Inspectorate
Representation before the Andorran Social Security Authority
Work accident handling
Administrative debt management and appeals for labour non-compliance
Defence in judicial and extrajudicial labour proceedings
Termination of employment relationships

Area 09

CASS

We find the most suitable solution for our clients' issues with the Andorran Social Security Authority, whether for individuals seeking disability pensions or employers facing contribution and salary declaration problems.

Advisory on employer obligations with the CASS
Assistance during CASS inspections
Appeals, claims and challenges to sanction proceedings
Disability pension applications
Appeals for total or partial disability pensions

Area 10

Compliance

Risk management and prevention, together with due regulatory compliance, have become an essential part of business operations. Our Compliance department offers advisory, training and implementation services focused on preventing money laundering and terrorist financing.

Specific Compliance reports upon client request
Ongoing advisory support and assistance to the Compliance Officer
Design and implementation of policies, procedures and controls for the prevention of money laundering and terrorist financing
Training services

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