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Reform of the Civil Proceedings Law Royal Decree-Law 6/2023 of 19 December, approving urgent measures for the implementation of the Recovery, Transformation and Resilience Plan in the areas of public service of justice, civil service, local government and patronage, has thoroughly reformed the Civil Procedure Act. How to notify a civil judicial procedure to a […]
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What is the purpose of a due diligence in the acqu […] What is the purpose of a due diligence in the acquisition of companies? Is it worth the investment?
A due diligence is an investigation process of one or more assets, which may well be of a company or a group of companies. However, before entering into this “indirect” acquisition process (decision to acquire the company as means of acquiring the assets and liabilities contained therein), we should ask ourselves whether it is more favourable, […]
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Legal adviser: Which companies are obliged to appo […] Legal adviser: Which companies are obliged to appoint one?
The legal adviser to the administrative body is a figure regulated by Law 39/1975 of the 31st of October, still in force, whose function is to advise on due compliance with the legality of the adopted Agreements. That said, and although it is applicable to any administrative body (sole administrator, several joint/solidary administrators and/or Board […]
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The Preparatory Phase of the sale of companies. The Preparatory Phase of the sale of companies.
When it is decided to enter into negotiations to carry out a sale of a company or part of its shareholding, the preparatory phase (prior to the signing of the sales contract or Shares Purchase Agreement “SPA”) is of great importance, and can frustrate the operation as a whole if it is not given the […]
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The Rebus Sic Stantibus clause and rent reduction. […] The Rebus Sic Stantibus clause and rent reduction.
The crisis due to Covid-19 has generated a very important economic problem derived from the drop in turnover, clientele loss, capacity limitations, commercial establishments opening and closure hours’ limitation. Many of the establishments are not owned by the activity holder, they are rented with different contract’s term duration and with an established rent in a […]
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The Golden Share (or how to guarantee State contro […] The Golden Share (or how to guarantee State control in privatized companies).
When the State decides to dispose of its shareholdings and leave them – totally or partially – in private hands, there is no guarantee that the services of public interest that these companies offered will be sufficiently protected. For this reason, several of the States that privatized their public companies (energy, gas, telecommunications, electricity, airlines, […]
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Penalties for non-compliance with obligations rela […] Penalties for non-compliance with obligations relating to the Equality Plan.
Having an approved and implemented equality plan is an obligation from the 7th of March 2021 for companies with between 101 to 150 employees. It should be remembered that this obligation was already binding for companies with more than 150 employees. Now companies with 50 or more employees will also have to comply with it. […]
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The new directive that will force SME to implement […] The new directive that will force SME to implement reporting channels.
On the 26/11/2019, the new European directive on the protection for individuals was published, which will make it necessary to reinforce internal control systems to prevent irregularities. The plaintiff’s effective defence, marks the spirit of the regulation which will reinforce compliance in the company. The definitive transposition in Spain of the European Union Directive 2019/1937 […]
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What documentation is the entrepreneur required in […] What documentation is the entrepreneur required in order to request an insolvency proceeding?
According to the law the insolvency proceeding request must be accompanied by all the documents deemed necessary to prove the existence of an insolvency state, such as annual accounts, balance sheets, audit report, payment requests, constraints, embargoes, debt certificates from the Treasury and Social Security etc… In addition, the legislative text lists which documents must […]
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When does it consider the existence worker’s illeg […] When does it consider the existence worker’s illegal transfer?
It is increasingly common for companies to organize the development of their business activity, through figures known as outsourcing. This term implies a cost reduction and limitation of liability of the “client company”, to which such services are provided, derived from the labour relations with the persons providing those external services from which they benefit, […]
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Tax liability for business succession: a real risk […] Tax liability for business succession: a real risk.
Within the economic circulation, on many occasions investment opportunities come up and offer us either the possibility of acquiring other businesses, or either to acquire functioning businesses or others that have ended their activity, but we think that we can relaunch with another type of management. Usually, the acquiring party prefers to buy the business […]
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The Register Book of Partnership or Register Book […] The Register Book of Partnership or Register Book of Contracts between the Single-Member Company and Sole Shareholder.
Should a Single-Member Company present a Register Book of Partners or Register Book of Nominative Shares? It is known, that the administrative body of limited liability companies is obligated to maintain and present a Registration book of Partners, which should contain as follows: (i) the statement of the shares (complete identification, nationality, and address) and […]
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Corporate and negotiation conflicts. Three keys fo […] Corporate and negotiation conflicts. Three keys for success.
In over my 15 years of professional practice I have participated as legal advisor in many corporate conflicts. In some cases, as a lawyer of organizations´ administrators and main shareholders and, in other cases, as a legal representative of minority partners, “rebels” with or without cause that try to enforce their rights with different objectives. […]
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When a group of businesses is considered to be at […] When a group of businesses is considered to be at labour level?
Many of our clients maintain a structure with various interrelated corporate organizations, but ignore exactly which are the consequences that this act can lead to. This is why we should differentiate between “a group of businesses” and “business group”. The first concept is safer in terms of the possible consequences in a labour level, while […]
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Compensation for clients in the agency contract. Compensation for clients in the agency contract.
The article 28 of the agency contract’s Law (Ley de Contrato de Agencia, “LCA”) establishes that “… when the agency contract extinguishes for either a fixed or indeterminate period of time, the agent which has provided new clients to the entrepreneur or that has increased noticeably the operations with the pre-existing clients, will have the […]
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Submission to arbitration in commercial contracts. […] Submission to arbitration in commercial contracts.
It is common in the commercial contracts, collaboration agreements between companies, and agreements of intention, that contractual parties in addition to regulating the main business purpose, individual obligations, contractual terms, resolution causes, or confidentiality duties, they also have to agree before which jurisdiction they will submit to settle the controversies that may arise in the […]
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The statutory stipulations of the remuneration to […] The statutory stipulations of the remuneration to the Administrators and their effects on the deductibility of the corpo […]
In this blog post, we are going to deal with content that often is unnoticed by the small and medium-sized companies, being able to be a main contingency focus with the tax authorities if the proper compliance of the commercial regulations is not adequately revised. In the first place, we must attend to the corporate […]
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The promissory note in asset acquisition operation […] The promissory note in asset acquisition operations.
The promissory note is an instrument used oftentimes in international operations for asset acquisitions, by virtue of which one part (issuer) undertakes to finance the other (beneficiary) a certain amount of money. Although the common thing is that the promissory note makes the funds available in favour of the beneficiary upon prior fulfilment of certain […]
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When the insolvency proceeding is considered guilt […] When the insolvency proceeding is considered guilty.
Article 163 of the Bankruptcy Law states that the bankruptcy must be declared either fortuitous or guilty. Although the Law does not define fortuitous bankruptcy, Article 164 exhaustively regulates the so-called guilty bankruptcy, considering that its declaration applies if, within the two years prior to the date of declaration of the bankruptcy, there was fraud […]
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Which claims are paid first in insolvency proceedi […] Which claims are paid first in insolvency proceedings?
When a company is involved in insolvency proceedings, the first task is to classify the creditors’ claims, because it is essential to determine who will recover its claims from the bankrupt company first. Firstly, a distinction is made between the bankruptcy claims (“créditos concursales”) and claims against the estate (“créditos contra la masa”). Bankruptcy claims […]
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Less than a year ago, Article 62nd of the Consolidated Text of the Spanish Companies Law (“SCL”) was amended, introducing a new section, the current section 2, which has been integrated into the article on the basis of section 1 of Article 2 of Act 11/2018 of December the 28th, which amends the Commercial Code, […]
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Differences between voluntary and involuntary inso […] Differences between voluntary and involuntary insolvency proceedings.
The main conceptual difference between voluntary and involuntary insolvency proceedings is determined by whoever has initiated the proceedings. In this sense, if the application for insolvency proceedings has been made by the debtor itself, it will be considered such a voluntary insolvency proceeding (in Spanish, “Concurso Voluntario”), and the administrative body of the Company will […]
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The so called “pre-bankruptcy proceeding” in Spain […] The so called “pre-bankruptcy proceeding” in Spain during the State of Alert
Article 5 of the Bankruptcy Law states that “the debtor must request the declaration of bankruptcy within two months counted from the date on which it knew or should have known about the insolvency”. However, Article 43 of the very new Royal Decree Law 8/2020 of March 17th establishes that while the state of alert […]
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