Our Services

Our Core Services

Advocacy & Engagement

We shape regulatory outcomes through the design of Advocacy plans, solutions & strategies that are:

• Legally solid, realistic and defensible

• Focused on business-risk mitigation and commercial opportunities

• Designed with practical implementation in mind from day one

• Supported by a strategic engagement plan that considers the political and institutional landscape

• Understandable for lawmakers & governments in constructive dialogue with authorities and public consultations

Legal & Regulatory Compliance

Once regulation is approved, we provide practical, business-oriented legal advice to ensure compliant implementation across different jurisdictions.

With 10+ years conducting regulatory assessments in highly regulated industries worldwide, we focus on:

• Concrete, actionable guidance

• Compliance solutions aligned with commercial priorities

• Clear risk assessments enabling rapid decision-making

Beyond regulatory compliance our FMCG Fractional General Counsel service offers pragmatic support on commercial contracts (sales, supply, distribution, services, logistics), competition and anti-trust laws and litigation management with strong FMCG experience.

Bonus Services

For companies, we offer Investment Sherpa Service: support for companies expanding or investing abroad, including market-entry consulting and introductions to authorities and key industry partners. Specialization in Spain (national & Canary Islands) and APAC.

For governments, government-owned entities and political parties, we provide the following additional services:

• Public–private cooperation projects to attract investment

• Policy and campaign advisory on industry-related programs

• Senior-level speechwriting and political messaging

CabLab Expert Desks

While our expertise in highly regulated industries allows us to operate across different sectors, there are several niches where our depth of knowledge and track record make us a clear reference.

These Expert Desks reflect the areas where we combine sector or jurisdiction-specific insight, solid stakeholders network, regulatory mastery and practical experience to deliver highly specialized support.

FMCG Desk: Tobacco & Nicotine, Liquor and other Consumer Goods

We bring robust, hands-on in-company experience in Advocacy, Regulatory Implementation and Legal Affairs for Consumer Goods across multiple jurisdictions. Our expertise covers:

• Packaging & Labelling: health warnings, plain packaging, multilingual requirements, market-specific compliance.

• Marketing Restrictions: display bans, point-of-sale limitations, Generation Ban/ End-Game-Policies, marketing claims.

• Flavour Bans & Ingredients Regulation: additives restrictions, ingredient reporting obligations.

• Track & Trace Systems with complex cross-border requirements.

• Single-Use Plastics (SUP) & EPR Schemes.

• Regulatory Risk Management: end-to-end support on investigations, risk assessments, and interactions with supervisory authorities.

• Industry Coalitions: cooperation with national and supranational authorities, industry associations and cross-sector coalitions.

• Commercial Legal Support: drafting and negotiation of supply, distribution, logistics, manufacturing and licensing agreements.

• Litigation Support: management of commercial and regulatory disputes affecting highly regulated FMCG portfolios.

This desk is where our combination of legal, regulatory and advocacy capabilities delivers the highest value: pragmatic solutions grounded in deep category knowledge.

Iberia & Canaries Advocacy Desk

Our deep understanding of both the Canary Islands regional framework and the Spanish national political ecosystem positions us as an ideal partner for advocacy projects in Iberia & Canaries across highly regulated industries. We support clients with:

• Participation in public consultations, regulatory drafting processes and engagement with the Spanish Parliament, Canary Islands Parliament, and national/regional governments.

• Strategic relationship building with key institutional stakeholders.

• Investment “Sherpa” services for companies entering or expanding into Spain or the Canary Islands: we accompany investors, facilitate introductions, and help build solid relationships with national, regional and local authorities.

This desk combines regulatory insight, political understanding and on-the-ground experience to deliver impactful advocacy in Spain.

Travel Retail Desk

With several years working inside the Global Travel Retail and Duty Free ecosystem, we are uniquely positioned to act as a strategic Regulatory and Legal partner for companies operating in this Global channel.

We provide:

• Expertise navigating complexities of the Travel Retail and Duty Free regulatory framework.

• Global support with advocacy and compliance with packaging, ingredients, labelling and marketing requirements across markets.

• Advisory on allowances regulations. 

• Experience engaging on Customs, APAC and EU Travel Retail files, including global Duty Free campaigns.

• Strong working relationships with the main Travel Retail and Duty Free Associations and Senior Industry Leaders.

• Contractual set up between brands and Duty Free Distributors and Retailers.

The Travel Retail channel requires regulatory specific precision and global advice covering multiple market requirements— this desk offers exactly that with unique Travel Retail and FMCG expertise.

FAQs on our value proposition

Is CabLab a Law Firm or a Public Affairs Agency?

With CabLab you get both in one: integrated Legal, Regulatory and Advocacy expertise.

You are not hiring a lobbyist with limited legal & business understanding.
You are not hiring a law-firm Partner disconnected from political reality.

We master both fields — across multiple global markets — to provide coherent, end-to-end regulatory consulting for highly regulated companies.

What else differentiates you from other firms/ consultancies?

Do you invoice per hour? How can we collaborate?

We move away from old-fashioned hourly billing to offer flexible solutions:

• Fractional Counsel: a regulatory/legal/policy expert embedded into your team for as long as needed — including secondments, parental-leave coverage or extraordinary workload peaks, in local or regional scopes.

• Ad-hoc project & campaign support / flexible hours packages: tailored to your concrete needs and internal rhythms, including multi-country regulatory projects. Budgets pre-agreed in advance- without surprises.

Our team has external law-firm/consulting experience, but most of our careers were built in-house, within Corporate Affairs and Legal departments of highly regulated multinational companies across EMEA, APAC and the Americas.

This shapes our pragmatic, business-first approach:

• We avoid unnecessary long memos and generic monitoring.

• We speak your business language.

• We are used to advising Senior Leaders in companies and associations.

• We know the industry deeply, so we can add value immediately,

By delegating industry-specific Legal & Advocacy work to us, you free up your time for strategic leadership of your Legal, Corporate/ Public Affairs function or Association.

Our previous career paths included management of Legal and Government Affairs in multinational Business Units in Europe and Americas, Middle East and APAC.

Consequently, regardless of being based in Spain and our deep Spanish regulatory and political expertise, we are in a position to offer our services to businesses with operations all around the globe that can benefit from our deep industry expertise.

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