The Legal 500

Legal Developments in Spain

• Antitrust Newsletter 18 (December 2009)

  Antitrust Newsletter 18 (December 2009)
  - Garrigues

• Newsletter September 2009

  Commercial - Labour - Tax
  - Rivero & Gustafson Abogados

• Life Sciences Overview 2008/09

  Law 29/2006 (26 July 2006) on guarantees and rational use of medicinal products and medical devices is the central regulation governing medicinal products. The law still requires development through a large number of Royal Decrees, during 2008 and 2009. Many provisions of Law 29/2006 (such as the sale by post or by telematic means of certain medicinal products) do not appear to be enforceable until such legislation is enacted. This particularly applies to rules on medical devices, which are included in Law 29/2006, but need legislation to be effectively enforced. Such specific legislation is currently being developed, including for medical prescriptions and traceability.
  - Jausas

• Newsletter 4/2009 - López Acosta, Rivero & Gustafson

  New EC regulation on community trademark. Urgent measures in tax, financial, bankruptcy and employment matters. Amendments to the Spanish Corporation Act (LSA). New taxes approved.
  - Rivero & Gustafson Abogados

• Getting the Deal Through: Trademarks - 2009

  What may and may not be protected and registered as a trademark?
  - Iuris Valls Abogados

• TECHNICAL ANALYSIS OF THE PROPOSED SPANISH REIT

  The Spanish Goverment has approved a Draft Bill (the "Project") introducing a new vehicle "Sociedades Anonimas Cotizadas de Inversion en el Mercado Inmobiliario" (the "SOCIMI").  The aim of this project if to boost the Spanish real estate market.
  - PEREZ-LLORCA

• Newsletter 2009/1- López Acosta, Rivero & Gustafson

  -Derecho de participación en beneficio del autor de una obra de arte original.
  - Rivero & Gustafson Abogados

• Financial Market Updates

  As published in the Spanish Official State Gazette on November 8, the Executive Committee of the Fund for Acquisition of Financial Assets (the “Fund”) has convened the first two auctions for the acquisition of assets for November 20 and December 11, with the following characteristics. (See attached document)
  - Garrigues

• The pain in Spain

  The approval of the Concurso Law (Ley Concursal) in Spain on 9 July, 2003 was the realisation of a long sought-after aspiration in Spanish property law – namely the reform of the legal instruments for dealing with distressed businesses. Today, only a few years later, day-to-day practice shows that some of the old problems are resurfacing.
  - Garrigues

• Nov. 2008 Newsletter - López Acosta, Rivero & Gustafson

  Mercantile: New secured amounts in the Deposit Guarantee Fund for Credit Institutions. Tax: Analysis of the draft law to abolish wealth tax, generalise the system of monthly VAT reimbursement and introduce other modifications to tax legislation. Employment: Decisions of the Supreme Court relating to dismissals on economic grounds
  - Rivero & Gustafson Abogados