Publications - Corporate and M&A
By June 18, 2022, companies (whether public or private) and public entities, especially those employing 50 or more workers, are obliged to implement a whistleblowing channel so that workers, shareholders, members of corporate bodies, service…
In an earlier edition of our Latin American Viewpoints newsletter (see here), we analyzed the main provisions applicable to notification of mergers and acquisitions in Chile, Peru, Colombia and Mexico. In this second part, we examine a…
The main new steps approved by the government for the electricity industry are a revision of the remuneration parameters for 2022, and measures to speed up the application handling procedures for renewable energy projects.
Poland has plans to build the largest infrastructure project in the EU connecting Europe and Asia and making the country a passenger and cargo hub. This initiative, expected to mobilize over €30,000 billion, presents an opportunity for Spanish…
The legislation, currently under a public consultation period, will set out an infringements and penalties system for companies that fail to fulfill their duties to respect, protect and promote human and environmental rights and will ensure access…
On 25 January 2022, the CNPD issued its first guidelines on the processing of personal data in the context of direct marketing electronic communications.
Individuals or legal entities will have to be registered where the services linked to virtual currencies are located in Spain.
Since 2018, China started to implement the “Negative List” approach for the administration of foreign investment nationwide, and has updated the Negative Lists periodically since then. The Negative Lists set out in a centralized manner…
Main new legislation and news in relation to anti-money laundering and combating terrorism financing (AML/CTF) - 3Q21.
This register, which was regulated in Spain last April to adapt the Spanish legislation to the 5th Anti-Money Laundering Directive, introduces a whole set of specific requirements to be taken into account by virtual currency exchange providers and…
In current M&A practice, when talking about transactions of a certain size, it is important to take economic competition factors into account, and a preliminary and important element that especially needs to be considered is what the merger…