Criminal and Internal Investigations

Areas of expertise

Procedural defense of legal entities.
Crimes against land use planning and the environment.
Crimes against intellectual and industrial property
Crimes against employee’s rights.
Tax and accounting crimes.
Corporate crimes
Swindles or frauds
Punishable insolvencies
Criminal liability of the legal entity

The Criminal Law team of Andersen has a high degree of expertise and extensive professional experience in defending the interests of its clients in criminal proceedings.

We are deeply concerned about the uncertainty that every criminal proceeding entails. For this reason, the members of our team advise our clients even before the criminal proceeding is initiated, remaining at their entire disposal at all times.

Our outstanding Criminal Law team has acted as private prosecutor and as defense before the most important Spanish criminal tribunals, counseling legal entities, directors and individuals on protecting their rights.

Our services extend to all branches of Economic and Corporate Criminal Law, including corporate crimes, fraud, concealment of assets, tax offences, money laundering, amongst other white collar crimes. Moreover, we have ample experience in defending our clients in the field of criminal liability for workplace-related accidents and crimes against the environment.

Services

Procedural defense of legal entities and executives.
Accompaniment in internal investigations
Advice on corporate, tax, accounting and insolvency offenses
Intervention in proceedings for labor crimes and against workers' rights
Assistance in proceedings for environmental and urban planning offenses
Defense in intellectual and industrial property crimes
Advice in cases of fraud, swindling and disloyal conduct.
Implementation and review of criminal prevention models (criminal compliance).

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José Antonio Tuero Partner

Esmeralda Iranzo Sánchez Director

Related publications

Criminal liability in the management of the Covid-19 crisis 27/05/2020 Criminal and Internal Investigations In the light of the ongoing lawsuits, an analysis is made of the types of criminal offences in which the action or omission of the Government or the Autonomous Communities in the management of the crisis could be subsumed READ MORE >>

Analysis of the possibility of bringing a civil action based on the same facts that a criminal court considers do not constitute a crime 07/05/2020 Criminal and Internal Investigations Regarding 6th February Supreme Court Decision No. 84/2020 READ MORE >>

Legislator amends Penal Code to combat subsidy fraud 25/02/2019 Criminal and Internal Investigations Álvaro Martín Talavara analyzes the update of the Criminal Code READ MORE >>

Expansión: Putting a stop to the funding of organised crime 21/04/2017 Criminal and Internal Investigations

Abril Gascón conducts a legal analysis in Expansión on the growing role of the Asset Recovery and Management Office in the fight against organised crime.