Description: Preparation of an Expert Report in the context of a legal claim between two telecommunications companies for the sale of shares in subsidiaries, clients and network deployment. The controversy centers on the buyer’s claim that the seller omitted certain liabilities at the time of the transaction, generating claims for price adjustments and compensable damages.
Work carried out: Our collaboration as an Independent Expert has been requested to carry out an objective and impartial criticism of the expert opinion presented by the purchasing party. The main focus of the work has been to analyze and quantify the price adjustments claimed by the buyer, as well as evaluate the validity and justification of the compensable damages indicated in the plaintiff’s expert opinion. During the analysis of the price adjustments, claims related to debts assumed by the buyer as part of the payment have been identified. Regarding the compensable damages, after an exhaustive verification of the amounts presented by the plaintiff, we have identified that the amount credited is significantly lower than that claimed.
Result: Awaiting sentencing.
Financial Sector
Description: Assistance to a financial institution as an independent expert in the context of different claims filed against our client as a result of alleged breaches perpetrated both in the pre-contractual phase and in the contractual phase. In that context, the plaintiffs seek the annulment of contracts and the repayment of the sums paid to each other.
Work carried out: Individualized analysis of the grounds of nullity set out in the lawsuits, proceeding then to determine the reasonableness from a mainly economic point of view of the facts that support the different actions carried out by the entity in each one of the cases.
Result: High ratio of positive judgments.
Construction Sector
Description: Expert report made against a company dedicated to the provision of construction materials through different suppliers or carriers.
Work carried out: As a result of the termination of the contracts with several carriers by the company, they, in relation to the litigation in progress, have requested our collaboration, as experts, with the objective of analyzing and quantifying the price differential The Company is paying its Carriers for the transport of concrete, with respect to (i) what is paid in other markets in the rest of the geographical areas of the country and (ii) with respect to what is paid to the carriers that provide their services in the Basque Country as of July 1 20xx.
