For solicitors, abogados and in-house counsel
Tracing, asset searches, process serving and surveillance carried out under a Spanish detective's licence — so the evidence you receive can actually be produced, and survives challenge.
Conflict check and scope discussion before anything is opened. No cost, no obligation.
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Instruction types
Locating a party who has moved, gone quiet or left the jurisdiction. Debtors, respondents, beneficiaries, witnesses and former employees. Address confirmed and documented, not merely suggested.
Identifying property, company interests and other assets held in Spain by a named party. We locate and document; enforcement and recovery are your work, not ours.
Serving documents on a party in Spain, with a signed record of when, where and on whom service was effected — including the awkward cases where the subject is avoiding it.
Establishing cohabitation for maintenance proceedings, or documenting conduct relevant to a family matter. Structured to the evidential standard your case requires.
Locating debtors and establishing what they hold in Spain, so enforcement is aimed at something real rather than issued into the dark.
Finding witnesses who have moved on, approaching them appropriately, and recording what they are willing to say.
Short answer In Spain, investigative work may lawfully be carried out only by a detective holding a TIP licence, and only that detective's signed report can be produced as evidence. An unlicensed operator commits intrusismo profesional, and their product is worth nothing to your client's case.
This is the point at which instructions most often go wrong. A firm engages an English-speaking investigator based on the Costa del Sol, receives a competent-looking report, and discovers at the worst possible moment that it cannot be relied on — because the person who produced it was not licensed to produce it under Ley 5/2014, which is supervised by the Ministry of the Interior.
Our work is signed by a licensed Spanish detective, TIP nº 6496, who can be identified and, where necessary, called to speak to the report. You instruct in English and receive the report in English. The investigative act itself is Spanish, licensed and accountable.
Working with us
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A call to establish what you need to prove, what is proportionate, and whether we hold any conflicting instruction. We will tell you if we think the work is unlikely to produce what your case requires.
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Every instruction is screened for a legitimate interest before it is accepted. This protects your client and your firm as much as it protects us, and it is what makes the resulting evidence defensible.
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A written figure for the case before anything begins. If circumstances change materially, you hear before further cost is incurred, not on the invoice.
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A structured report in English, dated and signed by the licensed detective, with the underlying material referenced so it can be produced.
A chronology of what was observed or established, with dates, times and locations. The methods used, so their lawfulness is visible on the face of the document. Supporting material referenced and retained. Findings stated separately from inference, so the two are never confused.
Where a finding is uncertain, it is recorded as uncertain. A report that overstates what it establishes is a liability in cross-examination, not an asset.
We work throughout Spain, with the fastest response along the Costa del Sol, the Costa Blanca and the Balearics — where most foreign-instructed work arises.
For matters that cross a border, we define clearly what can lawfully be done in Spain and where our remit ends. We would rather narrow the instruction than deliver something your opponent can dismantle.
Common questions from instructing firms
Can the report be used in proceedings outside Spain?
That depends on the forum, and it is a question for you rather than for us. What we can say is that the report is prepared to the Spanish evidential standard and signed by a licensed detective, which is the necessary condition here and generally the more demanding one.
Will you take an instruction where the lawful basis is unclear?
No. We screen every instruction and decline the ones that fail, including where the client is willing to pay. An investigation without a legitimate interest exposes your firm as well as ours, and produces evidence that will not survive the first challenge to it.
How quickly can you deploy?
For urgent matters we can usually begin within twenty-four hours of instruction, subject to the conflict check. Tell us the deadline at the outset — timing often determines whether the evidence exists to be gathered at all.
Do you work directly with clients or only through firms?
Both. Where a firm instructs, we report to the firm and correspond through it unless told otherwise, and we do not discuss the matter with the client without your authority.
Can you recover funds or enforce against assets you find?
No, and any firm claiming otherwise is describing something an investigator cannot lawfully do. We locate and document. Recovery and enforcement are legal steps that belong to you.
Confidential · No obligation
Tell us what you need to establish and by when. We'll tell you what can lawfully be done in Spain, what it would take, and whether it is likely to get you there — before you commit anything.