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The European Parliament and Council’s Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD), (which has amended Regulation (EU) 537/2014, Directive 2004/109/EC, Directive 2006/43/CE and Directive 2013/34/UE) has come into force. This means that more companies are required to report on corporate sustainability issues. The world and the economy are changing, and the CSRD is adapting to new sustainability…

The bankruptcy proceedings Pre-Pack is born out of the need to guaranty an orderly and a more efficient way to proceed with the winding up process, thereby reducing the excessive duration of insolvency proceedings and in benefit of a higher percentage of recovery. The sale of productive units of a company involved in bankruptcy proceedings…

Over the last few weeks, many regulations have been published with the aim of trying to reduce the foreseeable negative effects that the State of Alarm and the paralysis of a large part of the activity may cause in our economy. One of the latest topic is the potential increase of insolvency proceedings as a…

Foreward by Andrew Chilvers As companies continue to look for opportunities in global markets, directors from diverse jurisdictions are hired to serve on the boards of foreign businesses as well as domestic ones that have operations and assets in other countries. Enterprises across the world look for directors from other jurisdictions for any number of…

The rebus sic stantibus clause as a tool for modifying or terminating lease contracts in cases of serious affectations by COVID-19, and the current criteria of the Supreme Court. In these turbulent days, when the media and social networks abound with alarming news about the fall of the stock markets, not enough attention is being…

How the state of alarm declared as a result of the expansion of the Coronavirus has affected the judicial and administrative system, and how the Government has had to take measures to safeguard the rights of citizens in these matters. The situation caused by the fast expansion of COVID-19, also known as “Coronavirus”, has forced…

Spanish Royal Decree-Law 8/2020, of 17 March, on urgent extraordinary measures to face with the economic and social impact of COVID-19. The following is a summary of the Royal Decree-Law (hereinafter RDL) that regulates labour matters, and specifically, the measures to make the mechanisms for temporary adjustment of activity more flexible in order to avoid…

A big thank you to Bosco de Gispert Segura for hosting the first IR Global member-led Iberian meeting in Barcelona.  The members discussed how they can jointly promote their membership of IR with the aim of being more visible to potential clients and focused on how they can promote business with Latin America. We hope…

A heavy blow for the legal service provider Financialright in the proceedings before the Munich Regional Court on the largest action for damages against the European truck cartel. The Munich Regional Court dismissed the action brought by the legal service provider Financialright on behalf of more than 3,000 freight forwarders for almost 900 million euros,…

A heavy blow for the legal service provider Financialright in the proceedings before the Munich Regional Court on the largest action for damages against the European truck cartel. The Munich Regional Court dismissed the action brought by the legal service provider Financialright on behalf of more than 3,000 freight forwarders for almost 900 million euros,…

A cancellation of high economical and legal effect: A tense calm has taken over the city of Barcelona last week, after it has been agreed unilaterally by the organising body GSMA, the cancellation of the Mobile World Congress 2.020 which was to be held from 24th to 27th February. Likewise, even that barely mentioned, also…