Practical guides

Companies and economic crime Shareholder disputes in Spain: when they cross the criminal line A shareholder dispute is, first and foremost, a commercial-law dispute. But there is a point at which it crosses the criminal line, and knowing where that point lies is what separates a criminal complaint that prospers from one that is dismissed....

Companies and economic crime Digital evidence in corporate criminal cases: whoever dominates the information wins Challenging imagings and chains of custody, dismantling expert methods and dominating the investigation instead of the trial. The case file has twenty volumes, fifty thousand emails and three contradictory expert reports. The hearing lasts five days. And the defence that...

Companies and economic crime Internal investigations: the report that protects the company, and the one that sinks it The window before the Prosecution, the four limits, external professional secrecy and the three legitimate exits. The company commissions an internal investigation, the report concludes there is nothing, and that report ends up being the main prosecution...

Companies and economic crime Effective compliance: the five questions the judge will ask your company Corporate criminal liability, the penalties that destroy companies and the examination an organisation model must pass. Your company has a compliance manual. It was commissioned years ago, it is bound, and nobody has opened it since. If criminal proceedings arrive...

Companies and economic crime A search at the company: the first hours decide the next four years Who is at the door, the first five moves, the record that decides the appeal and the 72 hours that follow. The day the judicial commission shows up at your company, everything that happens in the following four...

Companies and economic crime CEO fraud: the transfer that ruins a company and the hours that decide everything How business email compromise works, what to do in the first hours, whether the bank answers and what actually prevents it. An email from the finance director requests an urgent and confidential transfer to close a deal....