Public and Regulatory

Areas of expertise

Public Procurement
Issuance of opinions on specific issues.
Energy
Expropriations
Public Financing: grants and subsidies
Infrastructures
Environment and Climate Change
Public Administration Liability
Processing of different permits, authorizations and administrative concessions.
Town planning

In the field of public law Andersen has wide experience and provides specialist legal advice, both to private individuals and companies and the public authorities and the public sector.

Our advice includes writing reports, taking part in negotiations, drafting contracts, as well as providing legal defence to our clients in all administrative proceedings as well as in contentious-administrative files in the different scopes of our practice (urban planning, public contracts, compulsory expropriations, public service, administrative organization and local governing rules, assets held by public administrations, subsidies, infrastructures, regulated sectors, etc.).

Specifically, we have extensive experience delivering recurrent advice to public authorities and other public-sector entities in matters related to their organization and functioning, drafting laws and regulations, managing their proprietary assets, and in matters relating to their personnel.

In public sector contracting matters, we assist public administrations and public entities by drawing up contract instructions, including terms and conditions sheets, advising in public contracts bidding and execution. In the private sectors, we advise bidders in their submission of bids, the execution, amendment and termination of contracts, and when challenging bidding decisions, also assisting in court where necessary.

In regulated sectors, we have extensive experience in many Administrative Law areas, including water, coasts, energy, mining, telecoms, tourism and transportation.

We advise also in cases involving compulsory expropriation, liability, public aids and, generally, in all areas of Regulatory Law.

Public services

Public procurement

Preparation of reports and legal opinions on the regulations governing public procurement.
Proceedings before the public authorities and in the administrative law courts.
Due Diligences.
Preparation of individual procurement specifications.
Classification procedures.
Legal advice for the implementation of models of private sector involvement in the development of public infrastructure projects (PSI).
Special appeals in public procurement matters.

Compulsory purchase

Preparation of reports.
Legal representation in compulsory purchase procedures.
Proceedings before the public authorities and in the administrative law courts.
Advice in dealings with local compulsory purchase boards in determination of compensation.
Advice and handling of appraisal reports in compulsory purchase procedures.
Attendance at initial hearings and negotiation of agreements.
Advice on drafts of joint valuations.
Advice to beneficiaries of compulsory purchase orders.
Advice on revaluation procedures.
Advice on reversion procedures.

Infrastructures

Preparation of individual procurement specifications.
Representation before the public authorities in bidding procedures.
Experience in projects for highways, railways, ports, airports, public buildings, hospitals, energy recycling plants, etc.

Claims for damages against the public authorities

Preparation of reports.
Claims for damages before the public authorities.
Proceedings before the public authorities and in the administrative law courts.

Regulatory Law services

In regulatory matters we have experience in matters of water resources, coasts, ports, transport, telecommunications, energy, health, trading, etc.

Preparation of reports on specific matters.
Processing of permits, authorisations and concessions.

Andersen provides legal advice on environmental matters, advising on the obtaining of environmental permits and authorisations, the carrying out of Due Diligences and also provides auditing services to clients reviewing their legal-environmental position or providing environmental impact studies, the introduction and operation of integrated waste management services, etc.

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José Vicente Morote Partner, Managing Partner

Arancha Bengoechea Bartolomé Partner

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The cadastral value may generate an over taxation in the taxes it affects 06/04/2018 Tax, Urban planning, Public and Regulatory

Conference: The review of cadastral values to optimise property taxation

Who pays for the judicial consequences of political tension? 03/04/2018 Public and Regulatory

Carlos Primo and Carmen Fernández analyse the judicial consequences of political tension

The new Public Procurement Law requires rigorous enforcement by Administrations to maximize resources 08/03/2018 Public and Regulatory

Conference on public procurement organised by the FVMP

Andersen Tax & Legal strengthens the area of Real Estate and Urban Planning Law with the incorporation of Urbe Asesores Jurídicos 27/02/2018 Real Estate, Public and Regulatory

Antonio Ñudi and Carlos Peña join as partners of the firm

Labour aspects of the new Public-Sector Contracts Law 28/12/2017 Public and Regulatory, Employment

Belén Conthe and Álvaro del Castillo analyze labor aspects of the new PSCL

“SMEs will have easier access to public procurement.” 19/12/2017 Public and Regulatory

Interview with José Vicente Morote and Antonio Benítez on the new Public-Sector Contracts Law

Recruitment in Public Companies 11/12/2017 Public and Regulatory

José Vicente Morote on the new Public-Sector Contracts Law

Greater transparency in public sector contracts 24/11/2017 Public and Regulatory

José Vicente Morote analyses the new Public-Sector Contract Law

The Principle of minimum intervention in Administrative law 20/09/2017 Public and Regulatory

José Vicente Morote participates in the drafting of the Monograph on the laws 39/2015, Common Administrative Procedure of Public Administrations and 40/2015, Legal Regime of the Public Sector

The jurisprudential configuration of the regional cassation appeal 31/07/2017 Public and Regulatory

Courts provide answers to questions on the contentious-administrative cassation appeal following its amendment in the Third Final Provision of Organic Law 7/2015 of 21 July

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The rulings in favour of individual claims are growing, and the Association of Pharmacists of Barcelona has one claim pending a ruling by the courts.