Knowledge is power
Our legal go-to Antonio Flores reveals all you need to know about Spain’s money merchants
View ArticlePayback time for banks after Supreme Court ruling
100,000 British investors could be in line for a payout
View ArticleGet your numbers right to successfully sell a property
How to put your property in the best position
View ArticleThe urban myths surrounding the law in Spain
From public nudity to insurance for red cars
View ArticleHow effective is the legislation against squatters in Spain?
The activities of a squatter are not protected by the law
View ArticleA decade of litigation
To celebrate with the Olive Press special tenth anniversary, Antonio Flores of Lawbird picks out his Top Ten Legal cases
View ArticleBaron Rothschild finally answers Spain judge over alleged expat fraud
The multi-millionaire banking scion has denied any knowledge of the complex case that saw over 100 mostly British pensioners lose millions in an equity release scheme
View ArticleInsolvent Landsbanki bank fails in trying to evict British expat Alzheimer’s...
Landsbanki collapsed at the start of Spain’s housing crisis in 2008
View ArticleMalta tax haven in the spotlight – The European Panama?
EIC network has dug into hundreds of thousands of documents that show that Malta operates a tax system where companies pay the lowest tax on profits in the EU
View ArticleBanc-no Popular: Up to 300,000 Banco Popular shareholders to sue for their...
BACK in 1993, the London-based IBCA rating company, later absorbed by Fitch Ratings Inc., hailed Banco Popular as the most profitable bank in the world, for a fifth time in a row. And Just over a...
View ArticleNational Spanish press slam Marbella’s growing ‘trash and noise tourism’
ALERTED by groups of neighbours suffering from a small number of establishments throwing endless daytime parties with blasting music, Spanish national TV press has taken at interest in Marbella’s...
View ArticleEXCLUSIVE: Well known Marbella lawyer ‘linked’ to Hotel Sisu grenade attack
A BRITISH-hotel has accused a local lawyer of involvement in a terrifying hand-grenade attack. The manager of Marbella’s Sisu hotel claims legal eagle Antonio Flores is linked to a midnight attack that...
View ArticleFinancial experts blast Spain’s tax office as a ‘bully’ which turns taxpayers...
Many see in the Spanish Tax Office a tyrannical entity intent on extorting wealth from law-abiding citizens
View ArticleNew squatting rules in Spain drastically speed up the eviction process
THE Senate has approved specific measures against illegal occupiers of private property. Under the new bill, squatters will be served with an eviction notice and told to either justify ownership of the...
View ArticleChaos ensues with new laws on Spanish mortgage loans, writes Lawbird’s...
Now imagine a foreign buyer who speaks no Spanish and a notary who speaks only Spanish and you have a deal-breaker
View ArticleLawbird’s Antonio Flores reveals what you may not know about €500 ‘BinLaden’...
Up to €100,000 if travelling within Spain and €10,000 if entering or departing the country, without notifying the authorities
View ArticleEXPLAINER: What British expats in Spain need to know about the new residencia...
ON Monday July 6, 2020, the Directorate General of Migration and the Policia Nacional issued - upon application - a new residency card and, with it, a new residency status specifically created pursuant...
View ArticleNOTHING TO HIDE: Marbella lawyer Antonio Flores talks exclusively to the...
A MARBELLA lawyer has slammed a ‘heavy-handed’ dawn raid over a VAT fraud that was splashed over the media. Antonio Flores is furious that 12 armed cops, wearing balaclavas, blocked the main road to...
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