Our partner, Andrés Mas, and our lawyer Lucía García are the co-authors of the chapter dedicated to Spanish Jurisdiction in the 2019 edition of the international guide to "Mergers & Acquisitions", published each year by ICLG (International comparative legal guide). Click here to access the content.
To celebrate the 200th Anniversary of the Prado Museum, Ramon y Cajal Abogados is sponsororing the "Una pintura para una nación. El fusilamiento de Torrijos" exhibition, by Antonio Gisbert. This work of art was entrusted to the Prado by the Spanish State during the times of the Sagasta Liberal Government in order to uphold the noble and dignified memory of the Liberal Politician José María Torrijos (1791-1831) and of his colleagues, who were executed by Fernando VII. It is one of the most recognised paintings in the last time period of Spanish History.
On December 29, the General Directorate for the Gambling Regulation ("DGOJ") signed the Resolution authorizing the shared online poker liquidity, which will come into force tomorrow, 16 January 2018.
The Resolution modifies certain resolutions on gambling activities provided for in Law 13/2011, of May 27, of gambling regulation, and provides for the authorization by the DGOJ a liquidity regime shared among operators of the countries that signed the shared liquidity Agreement on June 6, 2017 in Rome.
Action Sport Soc. Coop, ARL (Action Sport), a distributor of Nike products based in Italy, brought a claim in the Netherlands against Nike European Operations Netherlands BV (Nike) on the grounds that the latter had wrongly terminated its distribution contract on 28 December 2015. Nike opposed this claim, holding that its termination had indeed been lawful. Particularly, it contended that Action Sport had been reselling, without its consent, Nike products through the Amazon platform, which was not a member of Nike’s selective distribution system.
Our IT and Gaming department analyzes the latest updates in the Spanish gaming sector, promoted by the Spanish Directorate General for the Regulation of Gambling (“DGOJ”) in the last months:
The United Kingdom’s ("UK") decision to leave the European Union (the "EU") (the so-called Brexit) may imply that the UK-based financial institutions are excluded from the common legal system and, particularly for the purposes of this note, are no longer able to operate under the so-called "EU passport" which enables to carry out some or all of their activities in other EU Member States.
As announced by the Spanish Data Protection Agency’s Director, Mar España, during the Annual Open Session held on 26 June 2016, a public consultation procedure has been opened for the amendment of Act 15/1999, on the Protection of Personal Data (“Spanish Data Protection Act”).
The Spanish Data Protection Agency ("SDPA") has started 2017 with the publication of three documents, which intends to facilitate data controllers and data processors the adaptation compliance with the General Data Protection Regulation.
The documents, which have been drafted in collaboration with the regional authorities (Catalan and Basque Agencies), and have been published in a section of the website of the SDPA created for this purpose, are the following:
After the invalidation, by the European Court of Justice in October 2015, of the European Commission Decision which declared that entities adhered to the so-called “Safe Harbor” granted a level of protection equivalent to this applicable to the Member States, a large number of companies have been forced to seek alternative mechanisms to legitimate their data transfers to the United States.
Finally, after more than four years of work, the General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”) was published May 4 in the Official Journal of the European Union (“OJEU”). As indicated in its Article 99, the new regulation will be applicable since May 25, 2018.
