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…
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…
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…