The firm: English-speaking lawyers in Villanueva de la Cañada since 1993

Who we are

Both of us are members of the Ilustre Colegio de la Abogacía de Madrid (ICAM, the Madrid Bar Association), and we work as a standing team: both partners study every matter. There is no one lawyer who signs and another who does the work, and this is not a firm where you meet one lawyer at the first appointment and are then looked after by someone else.

How we work

We choose our cases. We study every case before taking it on, and we tell you frankly whether it has any prospect of success — even when the client insists on going to court. We would rather lose the instruction than put someone into proceedings whose ending we already know. For the same reason we do not promise results. What we do, from the first meeting, is explain what can reasonably be expected, how long it may take and what it may cost. If anything changes along the way, we say so. The first consultation is quoted for. It is not free: you will know in writing what we are going to do and what it costs before you instruct us on anything. That way you know from the outset what you will pay and why. You can look at the decisions we have obtained: they are anonymised and checked against the original decision.

What makes us different

The area we work in most is difficult estates: family companies within the estate, gifts made during the deceased’s lifetime, second marriages, a surviving spouse’s usufruct, and cuadernos particionales (the written division of an estate) that do not add up. It is the ground where there is the widest gap between doing the job properly and doing it quickly, and where a mistake in the arithmetic is measured in hundreds of thousands of euros. If your matter is an estate involving lifetime gifts, or one where the heirs are at odds, it is probably what we do best.

Languages and the area we cover

We work in Spanish, English, French and Portuguese, and we act for foreign clients with matters in Spain. In practice that means you can set out your case, read our advice and sign the papers in your own language, while the proceedings themselves run in Spanish before the Spanish courts, as the law requires. Our natural area is the west of Madrid — Villanueva de la Cañada, Majadahonda, Las Rozas, Boadilla del Monte, Pozuelo de Alarcón, Brunete, Villanueva del Pardillo and Quijorna — although we act anywhere in Spain where the matter justifies it.

Advertising and professional conduct

This firm is bound by the Estatuto General de la Abogacía Española (the statute governing the Spanish legal profession) and by the conduct rules of the Ilustre Colegio de la Abogacía de Madrid. That is why, on this site:

• We do not promise results and we give no success rates.
• The cases published here are anonymised and the decisions are final.
• Every reference to a result is accompanied by a notice that past results do not indicate future ones.

Questions we are asked about the firm