The new Spanish Startup Law in 90 seconds The new Spanish Startup Law is already being processed in the Spanish Congress of Deputies. If you are a startup (or an investor), the question you are probably asking yourself is: will I be able to benefit from it and, if so, how and when? This…
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2021 has been the first year in which I have practised entirely as an independent lawyer in Madrid. It has been two and a half years since I left active politics and this year that has just ended was key to securing the goal of restarting professionally and moving forward. Fortunately, 2021 has lived…
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Spain takes a first step to regulate Autonomous Vehicles The Spanish Official Journal (BOE) publishes today Law 18/2021 of 20 December, which amends the Law on Traffic, Circulation of Motor Vehicles and Road Safety. The headlines of this new Law focused on the fact that it will no longer be allowed to exceed…
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Lime keeps me awake at night On Saturday, at 7:30 a.m., I was woken up by a strange noise. Five electronic notes were repeated every 30 seconds to a minute. In fact, they followed each other at random intervals. I deduced that it was the sound of an electronic game; someone was hooked on…
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Limited companies with only one euro of capital? Watch out for the small print On 27 July, the Spanish government approved the draft bill known as the “Crea y Crece Law” (Create and Grow Law). Its goal is to promote the creation and growth of companies in Spain. The bill is currently in the…
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Fourteen Proposals to Improve the New Spanish Startup Law And the day finally arrived. Five months after announcing that its approval was “imminent” (and more than two and a half years after starting its processing), on 6 July the Government approved its Report on the Draft Startup Law. Spain does not yet have…
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The Madrid Region invents a Public Poison Pill The poison pill (or shareholder rights plan) refers to a strategy that companies use to avoid a hostile takeover. It was invented by the legendary American lawyer Martin Lipton of Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz in 1982, i.e. at the beginning of the great wave of…
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Spanish Congress passed the New Riders Act: What now? The Spanish Congress has today passed the so-called “Riders Act“. This Act basically imposes two things: the presumption of a labour relation between riders and delivery platforms; and the obligation of all companies (whether they are platforms or not) to share with workers’ councils…
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Innovation in Madrid’s new Sustainable Mobility Ordinance: progress and doubts The Madrid City Council has just published its Preliminary Draft of the New Sustainable Mobility Ordinance (SMO). This text updates in depth the Ordinance approved in 2018 (it changes 109 of its 250 articles). It will be subject to a public hearing until 26…
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Blocking the sign of the times: a first analysis of the new Spanish Riders’ Law The Spanish Minister of Labour, Yolanda Diaz, gave a surreal press conference yesterday to present the new Riders’ Law. Here is a summary. While comparing herself to U.S. President Biden, the minister literally said that this is “a major…
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