White Collar Crime and Investigations Newsletter- H1 2026

In this edition of our Year in Review, we provide an overview of 2025’s most significant developments in the field of criminal law, together with our assessment of the outlook for the year ahead...

On 12 August, Order PJC/908/2025 was published in the Official State Gazette (BOE), establishing 1 September 2025 as the date on which the Independent Whistleblower Protection Authority (“AAI”) will become operational...

In our Year in Review, we provide an overview of 2024’s most significant developments in criminal law, as well as our outlook for the coming year...

In this Legal Briefing, we analyse the most relevant new features of the Law and answer the following questions: Who does the legislation protect? What information can be communicated? Who must implement these measures? What is the Independent Author...

Analysis of the most relevant legislative and jurisprudential developments of 2022...

Under the SCC, bribery occurs whenever a public official receives or is offered a reward to carry out an act or make an omission in breach of his or her duties or in the performance of these duties...

Under the SCC, bribery occurs whenever a public official receives or is offered a reward to carry out an act or make an omission in breach of his or her duties or in the performance of these duties...

The firm held the fifth ‘Pérez-Llorca Labour Law Update’ session of 2022...

This Legal Briefing provides an analysis of the main changes introduced by the Draft Law with respect to the initial text version of the Preliminary Draft Law...

Analysis of questions on key issues that may arise as soon as the law is implemented...

To date, the Spanish Supreme Court’s Criminal Section (SSC) has issued very few rulings that specifically analyse the limits on controlling corporate electronic devices and communication channels...

In this Legal Briefing, we analyse the first version of the static World Wide Web as well as web 2.0...

The approval by the Council of Ministers on 4 March of the preliminary draft law regulating the protection of whistleblowers...

This Year in review 2021 White Collar Crime and Investigations analysis of the most relevant legislative and jurisprudential developments of 2021...

In this Legal Briefing we analyse the preliminary draft Law on the protection of persons who report regulatory and anti-corruption offences...

In this Legal Briefing, we analyse the main new features introduced by Organic Law 9/2021, of 1 July...

The non bis in idem principle may be applied to resolutions handed down by bodies other than criminal courts...

The White Collar Crime and Investigations team has produced its 2020 Annual Round-up, which includes regulatory and case law developments in this area...

The authors of this work analyse the concept of the fictitious majority which makes up part of the type of corporate crime from article 292 of the Criminal Code...

On 7 October, the Council of the European Union announced the approval of the new "whistleblowing" Directive, which must be transposed into Spanish law within a maximum period of two years from its publication...

On 13 March, the latest reform of the Criminal Code, which transposes various EU directives into Spanish law, will come into force...