Integrity, efficiency and commitment
From a firm commitment to excellence and thanks to a solid and experienced team, Santiago Payo Abogados offers a comprehensive legal service to companies and individuals and provides customized solutions according to the needs of each client.
The combination of our comprehensive knowledge of the law and a business approach is a perfect complement to any negotiation.
Our clients share one common trait: the need for serious, solid and qualified legal representation. We defend both natural and legal persons from the public and private spheres.
Our lawyers cover the following legal services
Real Estate
- Advice on sale-purchase operations concerning properties, land and buildings.
- Promotion management.
- Rental management.
- Debt collection.
- Legal aid throughout the entire building process.
- Contracts to exploit property (renting, leasing, swaps, etc.)
- Execution of the urban development and management.
- Urban development agreements.
Commercial
- Tender administration.
- Legal advice for incidents in tenders.
- Legal advice on the management of solutions beyond tenders.
- Financial and social restructuring.
- Drafting and negotiating agreements.
- Legal advice in the management of extra-bankruptcy solutions.
- Purchase and sale of companies.
- Establishment of companies.
- Mergers, spin-offs, non-monetary contributions, adjusting to different business purposes and swaps.
- Advice on tax matters for mergers, acquisitions, takeover bids and joint ventures.
Corporate Law
- Company Secretarial Services.
- Company Formation.
- Dissolving a Company.
- Corporate Restructuring: mergers, splits, global assignment of assets and liabilities, and aquisitions.
- Advice on responsibilities of directors.
- Capital Risk.
- Representation for Directors at AGMs.
- Separation and Exclusion of Directors.
- Statutory Changes to Company Documents.
- Contractual Matters.
- Procedural Law.
- Bankruptcy Planning.
- Refinancing.
Civil
- Rural and urban renting.
- Evictions and payment calls.
- Family, marriage and children.
- Advice on foreign investments in Spain.
- Advice on Spanish investments abroad.
- Legal aid for all kinds of civil procedures before the Courts.
- Collection of defaults and debts.
- Contractual and extra-contractual civil liability.
- Drafting and reviewing contracts.
Criminal
- Financial crimes: misappropriation, fraud, misrepresentation, business offences, money laundering, bankruptcy involving malpractice, forgeries, etc.
- Offences against the Treasury: tax offence.
- Traffic offences: drunk driving, speeding, driving without license, contempt of the authorities, reckless driving, failure to render assistance.
- Offences against family rights and duties: desertion of domicile, non-payment of pensions, etc.
- Offences against property: theft, petty theft, receiving stolen goods, damages, fraud, etc.
- Offences against public health.
- Offences against honour: slander and abuse.
- Offences against privacy: discovery and revelation of secrets, breaking and entering.
Finance and Banking Law
- Stopping auctions and foreclosures.
- Minority shares.
- Multi Currency Mortgages.
- Opposition to evictions.
- Preferred shares.
- Subordinated debentures of convertible bonds.
- Foreclosure.
- Claims of responsibility for the management of investment funds.
- Claims against Off Plan Developments.
- Swaps or or financial exchanges.
Family Law and Wills
- Separation, divorce and annulment.
- Mediation in disputes arising from the Law of family and/or succession.
- Child Custody
- Adoptions.
- Wills, both Spanish and English.
- Contentious Probate.
Administrative
- Land and urban planning.
- Administrative contracts.
- Administrative, penalty and expropriation procedures.
- Administrative, contractual and property liability.
Arbitration
- Commercial arbitration.
- Arbitration by law and equity.
- Arbitration for investment protection and other areas of expertise.
- Representation and defense throughout the arbitration procedure.
- Defense of arbitration in disputes over jurisdiction.
- Cancellation or review of awards.
- Execution of foreign awards.
- Precautionary measures in the judicial forum and in the arbitral tribunals.
- Proceedings in court.
More than 20 years of experience endorse our work
Santiago Payo Abogados is formed by a team of professionals that combines experience, efficiency and technical rigor, focused on satisfying the needs of our clients. We have more than 20 years of experience in the provision of legal services in the national and international scope.
We offer a service of maximum quality that covers all sectors of activity and is the result of a philosophy of direct treatment that combines high qualification, innovative management, personalized and exclusive treatment and effective and dynamic legal solutions.
Santiago Payo Mazoy is the founding partner of the firm. He holds a Law Degree from the University of Navarra (Spain) and is registered as lawyer in the Honourable Bar Association of Malaga. With an extensive knowledge of languages (Spanish, English and Portuguese), he is also a specialist in Real Estate and Commercial Law.