Spanish FDI and Artificial Intelligence

With the much-debated reforms to Act 19/2003 of 4 July, on capital movements (“Act 19/2003”), the Spanish foreign direct investment (“FDI”) regime has been expanded over the past few years...

In this Legal Briefing, we analyse the main new features introduced by this new regulation in relation to the suspension of the liberalisation regime for foreign investments...

Three years after the introduction of Spain’s FDI General Screening Mechanism (in 2020), Spain has finally approved its FDI Implementing Regulation...

It has become usual in Spain’s FDI system for reforms to be introduced by measures formally unrelated to FDI...

On 28 November 2022, the Council of the European Union gave its final approval to the new EU Foreign Subsidies Regulation...

We set out below the main takeaways from our practical experience with Act 19/2003 over the past two years...

Below, we will consider the most important questions regarding the Spanish rules on FDI in relation to national defense...

In this Legal Briefing, we analyse the judgment of the Spanish High Court that annulled a CNMC resolution on the grounds that it did not establish the existence of a breach of competition law through circumstantial evidence...

In this Legal Briefing, we analyse the judgments of the Supreme Court that annulled two resolutions of the CNMC. The Supreme Court found that the CNMC had exceeded the 18-month deadline to conclude the proceedings...

The Ministry of Industry, Tourism and Trade has finally published its long-awaited Draft Royal Decree on Foreign Investment...

Another day, another ground-breaking change in Spain’s FDI rules...

There is a lot of hype about the Spanish FDI regulations introduced by a number of Royal Decrees in 2020...