Corporate Compliance in Tenerife & Fuerteventura
Programmes that prevent corporate criminal liability — sized for real businesses.
Compliance is cheaper than the alternative.
What we handle
- Criminal-risk mapping under article 31 bis
- Codes of conduct, policies and protocols
- Whistleblowing channels run independently
- GDPR alignment and data-protection audits
- Anti-money-laundering obligations mapped
- Training sessions staff actually remember
- Acting as your external compliance officer
- Programme reviews and documented updates
Since companies became criminally liable in Spain, a working compliance programme is the difference between an incident and a conviction.
We build and maintain compliance for small and mid-size companies — the size the off-the-shelf manuals ignore. Risk maps, codes of conduct, whistleblowing channels, data-protection alignment and the training that makes it real. Proportionate to your business: a hotel, a builder and a clinic do not carry the same risks.
The framework is national — the Penal Code’s article 31 bis, the whistleblowing law, data-protection rules — but enforcement is local: inspections, complaints and proceedings land in the islands’ courts and agencies. A programme that exists only in a binder fails exactly there.
Three stories we hear every week.
"We're 20 people. Do compliance rules really apply to us?"
"An employee reported something and we have no channel for it."
"Our manual is from 2019 and nobody has opened it since."
How we work
Olga Caballero
Founder & Lawyer — Costa Adeje · CorralejoAdvising international clients across the Canary Islands since 1998, in person and by video. Compliance is built with the lawyer who would defend the company in court — the programme is designed to survive that test.
Español · English · Deutsch · Русский · ItalianoFive languages spoken in-house — and live-translated video for five more.
Olga Caballero Martel · Colegiada nº 2805, Ilustre Colegio de Abogados de Las Palmas.
Meet the teamIn their words
Very competent law firm.
Competent and personable.
Very good professionals, and very kind.
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Compliance — what clients ask first.
Is a compliance programme legally mandatory?
Parts are: whistleblowing channels for companies over 50 staff, data protection for everyone, AML duties in some sectors. The criminal-prevention programme itself is not compulsory — but it is what can exempt the company if an employee commits an offence.
What does a programme include?
A risk map of your actual activity, controls and policies over the risky processes, a reporting channel, training and periodic review — documented, because in court the evidence of a living programme is the defence.
Our manual came from a consultancy. Is that enough?
If it does not match how the business really works, no — generic manuals fail precisely when tested. We audit what you have before proposing anything; sometimes adaptation is enough.
What is the directors' personal exposure?
Directors answer for supervision failures: a company offence without a serious programme reaches them quickly. A documented, working programme is their personal protection too.
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Would your compliance stand up in court tomorrow?
Book a consultation in person or by video — a clear, honest reading of your case in your own language, and a plan and fee agreed before any work begins.