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Criminal law

We consider that the talent of the criminal lawyer is to be imaginative and technically convincing in the interpretation of the Law most favorable to the client.

Apply the most effective strategies to take advantage, in favor of entrusted interests, of the contingent and circumstantial elements of the process.

UNIÓN LEGAL’s Criminal Law specialists have a high degree of specialization and extensive experience in Economic Criminal Law.

The reality requires preventing the possible illegalities that can often arise in business traffic, as well as directing the defense of the company, its managers and employees before the courts of the criminal order.

On the basis of a solid technical and dogmatic training, and the support of a long professional experience, our offer is concrete in the defense and safeguarding of the rights and interests entrusted by our clients in relation to all the crimes typified in the Law Criminal, both at a preventive and contentious level, without prejudice to specializations in matters of economic, corporate, fiscal crimes, money laundering, environment, intellectual and industrial property, falsehoods perpetrated by public officials and criminals.

The professionals of the Criminal Department of UNIÓN LEGAL are qualified to act in all instances and territories, with extensive and intense experience in matters processed in the National Court. Likewise, we intervene in all appeals proceeding in the criminal jurisdiction, including cassation, protection and even claims to the European Court of Human Rights.

Areas of action
  • Crimes against life and physical and moral integrity (murder, intentional and reckless homicide, abortion, injuries and torture).
  • Crimes against freedom (illegal arrests, kidnappings, threats and coercion).
  • Offenses against privacy, the right to one’s image and the inviolability of the domicile (Discovery and disclosure of secrets and violation of the domicile).
  • Crimes against honor (slander and insult).
  • Offenses against family rights and duties (abduction of minors and family abandonment; non-payment of alimony).
  • Crimes against patrimony and against the economic order (thefts, thefts, usurpation, misappropriation, fraud, punishable insolvencies, alteration of prices in contests and public auctions and criminal damage).
  • Offenses relating to intellectual and industrial property, the market and consumers.
  • Corporate crimes (Disloyal administration, accounting falsifications, abuse of majorities and imposition of harmful agreements, denial of the right to information)
  • Crime of receipt and money laundering.
  • Crimes against the Public Treasury and against Social Security (Fiscal crime, subsidy fraud and Social Security fraud).
  • Crimes against workers’ rights (illegal labor trafficking, imposition of abusive working conditions and infractions regarding the prevention of occupational risks, occupational accidents).
  • Offenses related to territorial planning and town planning, the protection of historical heritage and the environment (Illegal constructions, unlicensed constructions, discharges and pollutant emissions).
  • Crimes against public health (Dispatch and supply of deteriorated or expired medicines, alteration in the manufacture of medicines, adulteration of food; cultivation, production or trafficking of narcotic substances).
  • Offenses against road safety (Reckless driving, driving under the influence of alcoholic beverages or toxic substances, driving without a permit or license and refusal to submit to blood alcohol level tests).
  • Forgeries (Forgery of currency, credit cards and stamped bills; forgery of public, official, commercial and private documents).
  • Crimes against the Public Administration (Prevarication of public officials; omission of the duty to prosecute crimes; denial of assistance: bribery, influence peddling, embezzlement of public funds, fraud and illegal exactions; negotiations and activities prohibited to public officials .
  • Crimes against the Administration of Justice (Judicial prevarication; omission of the duty to prevent crimes; arbitrary exercise of one’s own right; false accusation and denunciation; false testimony; obstruction of justice and professional disloyalty; breach of sentence).
  • Offenses relating to the exercise of fundamental rights and public freedoms.
  • Crimes against public order (Attacks against the authority, its agents and public officials, resistance and disobedience;
  • Public disorders; illegal possession of weapons and explosives.
  • Offenses for minor crimes.
Areas covered by Unión Legal

Commercial and corporate law

Civil law

Fiscal – accounting and financial law

Procedural law

Bankruptcy law

Criminal law

Labor law

Administrative law and administrative disputes

Real estate and urban planning law

Economic-financial consultancy

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