Publications - Criminal Law and Internal Investigations
Specialists from the different areas of practice of Garrigues in Mexico analyse, from all perspectives of business law, the main regulatory developments that will impact companies in the country this year.
The culture of regulatory compliance is evolving, driven by new legal obligations and the consolidation of stricter control mechanisms. The new developments in internal information systems and the new criminal offences linked to EU restrictive…
A person involved in criminal proceedings may acquire what has come to be known as "supervening notoriety" and have to accept that his or her identity will be disseminated. However, after a number of years, the question arises as to the possible…
The law conceives access to protection as a right of any whistleblower who reports irregularities within organisations and guarantees their personal integrity and that of their property, as well as the preservation of their living and working…
The European Commission has just published its proposal to regulate digital services in two texts which even it considers ambitious: the Proposal for a Regulation on Digital Markets (analyzed here) and the Proposal on a…
Article by José Vicente Iglesias, partner at Tax Department of Garrigues in Madrid ('Expansión').
On May 25 2016, the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) became mandatory, having been published in the Official Journal of the European Union three weeks earlier. The regulation established a term of two years within which members states and…
Business secrets are one of the most important intangible assets of companies, particularly in the context of the digital economy. Until now, however, the legal protection afforded them was fairly limited and was normally relegated to the…
It was published today in the official Gazette Law no. 73/2017, of August 16th, introducing the twelfth amendment to Portuguese Labor Code.
On May 4, having been several years in the making, the Official Journal of the European Union finally published the regulatory instruments forming the new European framework for personal data protection, namely:
On September 11, 2015, the Official State Gazette (issue 218) published Organic Law 10/2015, of September 10, 2015 on access and publicity concerning certain information contained in judgments rendered in tax fraud matters.