The Department of Transport and Logistics Law has been established by CIALT with the aim of offering this sector a comprehensive and multidisciplinary service from professionals highly qualified in commercial litigation, employment and tax issues, without disregarding the personalised services required by the sector.

Commercial litigation:

• Contracts for national and international road transport of goods and passengers.
• Subcontracting. Multi-modal transport.
• Liability of transport companies their directors insurance for transport companies and claim management.
• Processing of transport-related licences, permits and fines.
• Services for the internationalisation of transport companies.
• Filing of claims with Transport Arbitration Boards and the different competent jurisdictions.
• Logistics services contracts.
• International merchandise trading: Incoterms.

Employment:

• Application of the Self-Employment Statute (LETA).
• Employment audit: this consists in writing a legal report on the legal-employment and social security status of the Company at a given point in time.
• Advice on labour relations: recruitment, remuneration; systems to add flexibility to mployment conditions in the company; transfer of companies, work centres or self-contained productive units.
• Charges to working conditions;Workforce Restructuring: Employment Adjustment Plans (ERE´s); removal of individual positions, group and individual transfers.
• Employment Procedured Law.
• Legal representation and defence against any individual or collective claim, relating to any entitlement or amount before any judicial body, either in oral hearings or the appeal or challenge phase.
• Representation and defence in Collective Bargaining Disputes.
• Administrative inspections, appeals and claims relating to employment; ongoing advice and support to Companies when dealing with the Labour Inspectorate.

Tax:

• Direct and indirect taxation in transport: analysis of intracommunity and international trade.
• Advice on the rendering of transnational services.
• Taxation of cross-border transport employees.
• Handling of the Authorised Economic Operator (AEC)certificate.
• Planning of optimal company structures for carrying our transport activities.
• Advice on the tax structure for launching an international transport business.
• Taxation of company restructuring operations and, in particular, merger and acquisition operations.