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¿Qué es un warrant? Un warrant es un título valor negociado en un mercado oficial de valores que otorga a su titular el derecho (pero no la obligación) de comprar o vender una determinada cantidad de un activo, denominado “activo subyacente”, a un precio fijo y durante un plazo determinado. El activo subyacente puede consistir […]

It is not unknown that some businessmen have opted over the years to leave their companies “inactive” when, in fact, they should have opted for their dissolution and liquidation before they became the so-called “Zombie Companies”. The purpose of this decision was none other than to avoid considerable dissolution and liquidation costs (basically, the formal […]

On the  10th of March it came  into force the obligation for investment funds to adapt and update the information in their prospectuses for investors in the sense regulated by EU Regulation 2019/2088 of the Parliament and the Council of  the  27th of  November 2019. The mentioned EU regulation is directly applicable to all EU […]

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. […]

As every year, the Directorate  – General of the AEAT publishes the general guidelines of the Annual Tax and Customs Control Plan in the BOE (Official Government Gazette), which establishes the criteria where the actions of the tax verification and inspection bodies will be based during each financial year. On Monday the 1st of February, […]

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 […]

There are many doubts that arise when deciding to appoint a legal entity administrator of another company and, for this reason, the matter should be studied in depth before making decisions. Mainly, administrators (or potential administrators) are usually interested in this option to try to protect themselves regarding the liabilities that may arise from its […]

Royal Decree Law 19/2018 of the 23th  of November 2018 on payment services, in force since the 25th of November 2018, in its Article 45, concerning the payment service provider’s liability in the event of unauthorised payment transactions, states the following in its first point: “… in the event that an unauthorised payment transaction is […]

Due diligence is a verification process of possible contingencies and risks of a certain asset or company in operation. Is an essential precaution to avoid the frustration of the investor’s acquisition profitability expectations. In addition, as we know from self-experience at Devesa & Calvo Abogados, sometimes it is the seller himself who previously commissions professionals […]

After participating in numerous hotel acquisition processes from the point of view of negotiation and operational legal advice, one learns to detect which are the aspects that can potentially entail the greatest legal contingencies in this sector. These are issues that, if are not properly analyzed within the framework of a prior due diligence work, […]