48 2022 The Create and Grow Law speeds up company formation

The Create and Grow Law speeds up company formations in Spain

The Create and Grow Law is a boost for small and medium-sized companies (SMEs) in Spain, designed to remove obstacles to economic activities, reduce late payment practices in business transactions, and provide financial support for business growth.

Legal actions available to condominium owners associations: The action for cessation

The Spanish Horizontal Property Law provides for two specific actions for the condominium owners association in the event of nuisance or delinquent co-owners or occupants. One of them is the action for cessation.

38 2022 Why franchise your business in Spain?

Four reasons to franchise your business in Spain

The franchise agreement enhances the franchisor’s distribution of products and provision of services and enables the franchisor to create a uniform commercial distribution network.

Loyalty shares in Spain

Loyalty Shares: are they beneficial to the growth and stability of a company in the long term?

The concept of loyalty shares was heavily involved in the subsequent changes to the reform of the Spanish Companies Act (Ley de Sociedades de Capital). Its introduction aims to reinforce the attractiveness of the corporate regime in Spain to investors.

green hydrogen

Green hydrogen, the substitute for fossil fuels

Hydrogen is a highly reactive chemical acquired through a process known as electrolysis by which electrical currents facilitate the breakdown of water molecules into oxygen and hydrogen.

energy retailer Spain

Energy trading in Spain: requirements and market players

Energy retailers are companies that access the transmission or distribution networks, acquire energy and sell it to final customers. Registration as an energy retailer company requires fulfilling some requirements.

green hydrogen

Regulatory framework of green hydrogen in Spain

Hydrogen production is an industrial activity classified within the chemical industry to produce inorganic gas. Its regulatory framework is still limited in Spain; hence, the application of other regulations prevails.

director’s labour liability

Director’s liability in the Labour Law field in Spain

The lack of specific regulation on labour matters does not exempt directors from liability if they occur in labour and social security infringements.

Posting workers abroad

Posting of workers from Spain abroad

In the business world, posting workers abroad to fulfil a specific objective is widespread. Depending on the type of posting, the company must meet one or other requirements and obligations.

International jurisdiction insolvency

International jurisdiction in insolvency matters

Although the center of main interests of a company is presumably its registered office, courts admit refutation of this presumption if brought by the creditors.