Rivaya y Bustamante Abogados

Three generations of attorneys in Santander

Rivaya y Bustamante is a law firm based in Santander, Cantabria. Antonio Rivaya Riaño and Manuela García Lemos founded it in 1955; García Lemos was the first woman practicing attorney in Cantabria. Three generations of attorneys have continued the firm, which is now made up of Raquel Rivaya García, Evencio Bustamante Mirapeix, and Raquel Bustamante Rivaya.

Practice areas

The firm handles several areas of law, with particular focus on civil and banking matters:

• Civil law: traffic accidents, arbitration and mediation, residential and agricultural leases, homeowners’ associations, construction defects, insurance, wills and estates, property and real rights, debt and payment claims, contract drafting, noncontractual civil liability, separation, and divorce.
• Banking law: unfair terms, mortgage floor clauses, loan origination fees, IRPH mortgage-index disputes, financial products such as preferred shares, Banco Popular shares, swaps, Valores Santander, revolving credit cards, and late-payment interest, as well as claims for mortgage-formation expenses.
• Employment law: comprehensive advice, collective bargaining agreements, dismissals, work-related disability, substantial changes to working conditions, payment claims, vacation, and leave.
• Commercial law: advice to businesses and self-employed professionals; acquisitions, mergers, and spin-offs; commercial contracts; insolvency; financial and corporate law; corporate-secretary services; and dispute resolution.
• Administrative law: zoning audits, government contracting, regulatory penalties, public service, eminent domain, land-use administration, administrative litigation, permits, urban planning, and government liability.
• Criminal law: offenses involving markets and consumers, intellectual and industrial property, traffic safety, workers, the environment, corporations, financial and property crimes such as theft and fraud, homicide, threats, trespassing, fraudulent insolvency, professional negligence, and corporate criminal liability.

Location and contact

The office is in central Santander, near City Hall, at Alameda Jesús de Monasterio 10, 39010 Santander, Cantabria · Phone: 942 37 14 14 · Fax: 942 37 14 54.