Our Third Sector practice works with organisations driven by purposes of social solidarity, public interest or community development.
We support social solidarity institutions, associations, foundations, cooperatives, non-governmental organisations and social economy entities in their structuring, governance and day-to-day operation, ensuring the legal certainty they need to pursue their mission with full freedom.
What we provide to our clients
The social economy is often characterised by informality. It requires careful attention to each organisation’s identity in order to understand its principles of action and identify any structural or regulatory obstacles to its mission. It is with this level of rigour, grounded in who each organisation is, that we work across several dimensions:
- Continuous legal support to boards and management, both strategically and operationally
- Representation in judicial and administrative proceedings
- Regulatory advice and liaison with local and national authorities
- Incorporation, restructuring and merger of organisations
- Definition of governance models and drafting of statutes and internal policies
- Cooperation and partnership agreements, including funding arrangements
- Structuring of joint programmes and projects with public entities
- Analysis and application of tax benefit regimes
Our role: securing the freedom to act
Each organisation has its own mission, our role is to ensure it has the legal security to carry it out. For that reason:
- We prioritise solutions that are clear, stable and aligned with the organisation’s identity
- We defend institutional autonomy against unlawful limits, requirements or omissions that restrict its capacity to act
- We integrate legal expertise with a deep understanding of mission-driven purpose
- We promote governance models that reinforce credibility and continuity
