Publications - Corporate and M&A
Highlights of the Revised Negative Lists for Foreign Investment Access
“Special Administrative Measures for Foreign Investment Access (Negative List) (2019 Edition)” and the “Special Administrative Measures for Foreign Investment Access in Pilot Free Trade Zones (Negative List) (2019 Edition)”…
Libra: the legal and regulatory aspects will be decisive for the new currency
The Libra Association, founded by Facebook and 27 other organizations, intends to promote the construction of a global financial infrastructure and issue from it a new cryptocurrency called Libra, enabling operators to carry out payment transactions…
The first stage has begun for law transposing EU directive on the encouragement of long-term shareholder engagement
The Ministry of Economy and Business has announced commencement of the comment period for the Preliminary Bill amending the revised Capital Companies Law, approved by Legislative Royal Decree 1/2010, of July 2, 2010 and other financial legislation,…
Shareholders only have the right to inspect certain documents and content
In Colombian public limited companies and simplified joint stock companies, inspection rights are subject to a series of rules regarding the documents and content that can be inspected. We recommend preparing regulations setting out how shareholders…
Things to know on the Chinese pricing tag
To the retail operators, administrative penalty imposed on price cheating is one of the most common administrative penalties they would face in their daily operation. Price Cheating, as provided in the Pricing Law of the People's Republic…
Regulations are issued on the use of cloud computing for financial services in Colombia
In response to the digital transformation of services for the storage, processing and use of data, and to promote the use of cloud computing for the provision of financial services, the Colombian Finance Authority (Superintendencia Financiera de…
These are Spain's measures to prepare for a no-deal Brexit in the fields of employment, judicial cooperation, financial services and customs
The Spanish government has adopted a range of contingency measures to prepare for the event of the United Kingdom leaving the European Union without an agreement on March 30, 2019. They are temporary measures approved through Royal Decree-Law 5/2019…
Energy auction process in Colombia ends, no contracts have been awarded and a new process is expected
The conditions for competition set for the auction were not met. The next auction is expected to take place in the second quarter of this year. Before June 30, 2019 in other words.
Colombian Superintendence of Industry and Commerce maintains merger control thresholds
The Colombian Superintendence of Industry and Commerce (SIC) issued Resolution 93503 of 2018 which sets the value of operational revenue and/or total domestic assets that shall be taken into consideration when evaluating the need of conducting…
CNPD publishes model of record of processing activities
The National Data Protection Commission has published on its website a model of record of processing activities for controllers and a model for processors, in accordance with the requirements set forth in article 30 of the General Data…
SIGI – New vehicle in Portugal for real estate investment
10 main features of Portuguese REITs
Colombia: financial institutions can invest in fintech companies
In order to maximize the benefits that innovation brings to the finance industry and thereby to increase people’s access to financial services, the Colombian Ministry of Finance issued Decree 2443 of 2018, authorizing credit establishments,…