Our civil and commercial litigation and arbitration teams advise clients in all manner of civil and commercial disputes.

With a deep track record of serving clients around the world, we have experience in nearly every industry and sector, including banking and finance, energy, construction and transportation and logistics. 

Our service is efficiently flexible, adapting to each client’s changing needs:

• In arbitration—institutional and ad hoc, domestic and international.

• In the civil and commercial litigation area, our solicitors advise clients in pre-contentious controversies.

• We defend our clients during the trial stage. Our people write procedural nature documents and represent the interest of their clients in court.

Our public litigation specialists provide legal advice and defence in administrative courts. Our teams have extensive experience representing both clients—at lower and appellate courts. Additionally, this team advises on administrative and judicial disputes concerning regulated sectors. 

Our areas of focus include:

• Legal advice to clients in proceedings of or against public entities and/or public administrations.

• Contentious administrative procedures at all jurisdictional levels.

• Regulated sectors, infrastructures, public contracts, urban planning and expropriations.

The employment litigation team represents and defends clients in matters related to labour law. Our professionals bring experience and perspective advising both companies and, in specific instances, employees.

Services our employment litigation professionals provide to clients include:

• Legal advice in collective labour proceedings.

• Preparation of all the documents for proceedings in advance of the hearing (appeals; pleadings; evidence requests).

• Negotiation with the employee’s lawyer to reach and draught settlement agreements and to avoid a future trial.

• Representing the client in court before all jurisdictions and instances.

Multinationals demand solutions for managing new regulatory obligations such as BEPS, ICAP using CbC-Reports, joint audits etc., relating to international tax disputes in both headquarter and foreign jurisdictions. 

Deloitte Legal provides clients with a cohesive perspective that empowers them to make informed decisions at any stage of the tax controversy cycle.

Our clients’ tax disputes range from divergences in tax liquidations to incorrect application of rates to or accusations of tax evasion or tax avoidance.

Deloitte Legal’s tax litigation teams act in the administrative circuit and before judicial courts, representing clients in tax-related disputes. The lawyers of the team write judicial documents and represent and defend clients in court.