We are a consultancy company focused on providing our customers a legal and strategic service based on both legal and business knowledgement and experience, and also helping companies on the new legal and strategic challenges in Corporate Social Responsabilty (CSR) and Sustainability. We have a large experience in legal environment and understand the logic of business and companies. In Apalategui-Garmendia we keep on adapting to the changing society without losing the substance.

We understand what each customer needs. A company that knows for selfexperience the different faces that have to be considered around a business


Our comapny counts with an acumulated experience of 80 years of knowledge and legal tradition. In 1940 Ascencio Apalategui pened the first bureau in Madrid and later in San Sebastián; two more lawyer generations have built a project full of legal experience and knowledge.

We dedicate to help your company in focusing on doing business. We are aware of the managing and implantation needs from a foreign company in Spain and spanish ones abroad.

We have experience in searching, negotiating and signing sponsorship agreements for your project, activity or business (culture, sports, business and artistic areas). We know the mechanisms that operate in these contracts. We can help your ompany in finding or negotiating with a sponsor for your project.

Along these years we’ve worked in terms of consultancy for the different agents involved in the textile business: companies, investment groups, distributors, agencies, manufacturers, franchisees, big accounts, sales directors, designers or directive groups. We’ve repplied to the different needs of each role to guarantee a secure and predictable legal environment, and in case a problem arises, afford a solution on it:

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Shop opennings
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Patents and trademarks
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Production
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Design
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Big account agreements
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Unpayments
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Contracts with agents–distributors
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Operations

Area with a large consultancy work for manufacturers, marketers, agents, distributors and suppliers from different markets. We have a large and proven experience in situations related with negotiation, contract drafting, signing and execution for agency and distribution in comercial and business environments, both national and international.

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Food, machine tool, consumering, industry, textile, components, furniture and any activity with the figure of agency, distribution or supplier in its development chain.

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We have experience in conflict resolution and negotiation. We also advice companies and agents about the derived situations from the trading contracts (including finishing notice, compensations or damages).

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Agency/distributor contracts, both national and international

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Subsidiaries establishment and organization

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Negotiation and agreement with big accounts

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Unpayments

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Shop opening processes

Corporate Social Responsability (CSR) and Sustainability. We accompany and advice small and medium companies in the adaptation to the new legal challenges (Law 11/2018 of No Financtial and Diversity Information – View link), strategic and comunication needs on the CSR and Sustainability area.