Financial Crime Law focuses on criminal conduct during business activity, creating damage on both reputational and economic aspects.
This area has experienced substantial growth due to the Criminal Code updates implemented in the last decade, which create the concept of criminal responsibility for companies and demand to develop a proactive role in the prevention of financial crime.
Given the relevance of such criminal activity, it is a priority for companies to designate a compliance officer for the development, control, and proper management of the implementation of compliance programs and the establishment of specific systems and controls.
At LEXPYME, we carry out criminal prosecution or defense activities in Courts and Tribunals, as well as preventive legal advice. We have developed an area of specialization in crime prevention and compliance programs, providing comprehensive advice ranging from the development of organizational and management models for the prevention of criminal risks to the development of specific internal control systems, training for managers, and advice to the administrative body through the issuing of reports aimed at avoiding risks in corporate decisions.
The LEXPYME legal team that covers the criminal law area has multidisciplinary experience. We provide personalized advice to each client, offering them our professionalism, efficiency, commitment, and solvency, with full involvement to guarantee the protection and defense of their interests.
Work Areas
- Criminal proceedings for economic offenses, corporate offenses, tax fraud, fraud offenses, and other punishable offenses against assets such as damages, misappropriation, punishable insolvency, bankruptcy proceedings, asset stripping, money laundering, bribery, and prevarication.
- Legal advice in the area of Corporate Compliance, creation and improvement of internal procedures, prevention of irregularities through audits and control consultancy, financial advice, economic and financial planning, and management control.
- We advise non-resident companies that need to adapt their internal procedures to Spanish regulations to carry out their activity in the country.
Practice Areas
- Criminal prevention through Corporate Compliance systems and controls for specific criminal risks.
- Review of compliance models already implemented.
- Definition of the attributions and composition of the company’s internal control body (Compliance Officer).
- Assistance to the Compliance Officer in the continuous review of the compliance systems’ effectiveness, with constant updating and adaptation to the company’s circumstances.
- Adaptation of international models to the requirements of national legislation and vice versa.
- Specialized training.