ERAGINKOR's Legal Services department has a proven track record in dealing with and solving the disputes of Social Economy companies and partners, and is even involved in the pre-legislative process of different types of cooperative legislation.

The most common services can be broken down as follows:

a) Services linked to cooperative companies:

• Legal advice and representation in corporate actions.
• Advice on registration issues and formalities.
• Legal representative in cooperative arbitration processes or before ordinary courts.
• Setting up, liquidating and winding up cooperatives.
• Preparing Internal Regulations.
• Representation and advice for Governing Bodies or other corporate bodies.
• Legal Advisor service, for those cooperative were it is legal requirement.

b) Services linked to the members and workers of the cooperative:

• Legal advice and representation in corporate actions to the cooperative.
• Membership applications
• Advice on compulsory or voluntary workstops.
• Legal representative in cooperative arbitration processes or before ordinary courts.
• Conciliation proceedings.

The following services are provided by a team made up of practising lawyers and with the support of professional from all management areas:

• Legal debts or simple corporate formalities.
• Preparing legal reports on debate topics in decision forums.
• "Ad hoc" legal studies.
• Corporate management formalities.
• Contractual Management: Drafting contracts. Claims due to breach.
• Registration formalities. Incorporation, Articles of Association, registration changes, transformations, winding up and liquidating companies.
• Advising on corporate disputes.
• Defaulting proceedings.
• Legal representation in court cases and arbitration.
• Advice to company administrators.

In order to help the secretaries and members of the boards and administration bodies of the different types of companies, information manuals are produced that are available for our clients in PDF format. They just have to send us an email with the ones that they are interested in.

• Cooperative formalities check list.
• Handbook of the most standard documents in cooperatives.
• Standard Cooperative Internal Regulations.

• Social Economy Directorate (www.juslan.ejgv.euskadi.net)
• Basque Law Association (www.abogaciavasca.net)
• Social and Economic Board (www.ces.es)
• Basque Cooperative Council (www.csce-ekgk.coop)
• Spanish Official Gazette (www.boe.es)
• Basque Country Official Gazette (BOPV) (www.euskadi.net/bopv)
• BIzkaia Official Gazette (BOB) (http://www.bizkaia.net/info/boletin)
• Gipuzkoa Official Gazette (BOG) (www.gipuzkoa.net/castell/bog/boletin)
• Alava Official Gazette (BOTHA) (http://web.alava.net/botha)