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Employment Alert: Coronavirus, National Health Service and Employment Issues

18/03/2020

Royal Decree-Law 8/2020, of 17 March, on extraordinary urgent measures to face the economic and social impact of COVID-19. 

The annotated legislation regulates many different aspects of the country’s operation affected by coronavirus, so this comment will focus on the main measures taken by the government in labour and National Health Service matters. In the current context, the above rule expands the measures already taken with a far-reaching and large economic and social package, with the aim of helping to avoid a prolonged economic impact beyond the health crisis, giving priority to the protection of families, the self-employed and companies most directly affected.

You can consult the alert in attached pdf. 

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Labour
implicaciones

News Alert Litigation & Arbitration: Potential contractual implications of Coronavirus: Force Majeure

06/03/2020

Coronavirus "COVID-19" is having an undeniable impact on the global economy and business activity. Its rapid spread is triggering various legal consequences, which law firms should not ignore. Indeed, several companies have started to declare force majeure scenarios in response to the difficulties they face, thus trying to protect themselves against various claims for contractual breaches.

You can consult the new alert in the .pdf attached. 

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Litigation, Arbitration and Mediation
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Roca Junyent promotes Roger Pla and Enric Moret to partners

10/02/2020
  • The promotions express the firm’s decision to strengthen internal talent and offer career opportunities
  • Lawyers Carlos Blanco and Marlen Estévez have been promoted to equity partners of the firm

Barcelona, 10 February 2020 – Roca Junyent has made a strong bet for internal talent with four outstanding promotions that showcase the potential of the firm’s current team.

Roger Pla, Senior Associate of the Real Estate department has been promoted to partner. Pla has extensive experience and knowledge in disciplines related to the revolution that the industry is facing as a result of technological advancement and new ways of working (coworking) and living (coliving). He also has experience in negotiating and contracting processes and in the counselling of real estate transactions. Throughout his career, he has advised and represented real estate companies and national and international investment funds in both the design of their investments and in the tender and acquisition of public real estate assets.

Likewise, Enric Moret, until now senior partner of the tax department, has been promoted as partner. With over 15 years of experience in providing advice and consulting of business groups nationally and internationally. Moret has participated in business restructuring operations as well as trade and foreign capital investments in Spain. With this promotion, the firm continues to strengthen the tax department, which previously incorporated the partner Raúl Salas and its senior team, tax litigation partner Joan Iglesias and the integration of the boutique tax firm, Segarra de Figarolas.

In addition, Roca Junyent has also promoted partners Carlos Blanco and Marlen Estévez, who as of January 1st have been equity partners. Thus, Blanco will continue to boost the M&A and Commercial through his extensive experience in company law advice of mergers and acquisitions (M&A), stock market listing and MAB, amongst others.

Marlen Estévez will continue to develop the Arbitration department, which she leads. Estévez has extensive experience in the resolution of disputes. Throughout her career, she has lead companies from all sectors in both domestic and international legal disputes, in administrative courts and arbitrary tribunals.
 

Internal Changes

Roca Junyent reinforces international department with the inclusion of Xavier Costa, M&A and Commercial Partner and Chairman of International Association of Young Lawyers (AIJA).  Until now, Anna Viladàs, Intellectual Property Partner and Officer of the International network Terralex and Santi Pagés, M&A and commercial partner and Latam Desks Manager, integrated the department.

Likewise, Xavier Costa y Xavier Altirriba, M&A and comercial partners in Barcelona will take on the management to boost its growth.

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Declaración del IVA

Tax Alert: 2020 VAT draft news

03/01/2020

2020 VAT DRAFT NEWS: Draft adaptation of Law 37/1992, on VAT and its implementing regulation to Directive (EU) 2018/1910, of 4 December, amending Council Directive 2006/112/EC (VAT Directive), which introduces changes, applicable as of 1 January 2020, to harmonise and simplify the provisions for the application of the exemption in intra-Community transactions in general, as well as the regulation of chain transactions and the sale of goods on consignment.

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Tax
JoanIglesias

Joan Iglesias, 2019 AEDAF Award Winner

23/12/2019
  • Tax Litigation Specialist and Roca Junyent Partner receives the award in the category of fiscal advisor in practice
  • With a biennial character, the AEDAF Award recognizes excellence in practice, teaching and research in different tax areas

Barcelona, December 20 – Joan Iglesias, a member of the tax department and person responsible for the tax litigation department of Roca Junyent, has received the 2019 AEDAF Award, which is awarded bi-annually by the Spanish Tax Advisers Association, for the category of fiscal advisor in practice for the work “The res judicata tax in the conviction ruling against the Public Tax Service”.

In his study, Iglesias highlights the technical deficiencies of the regime for the enforcement of the conviction against the Public Tax Service, as well as the serious consequences arising from the procedural reform, introduced in 2015.

Both the announcement of the awards and the criteria of the judges when evaluating the work ratify the difficulty, importance and prestige of the award. With a biennial nature, the primary objective of the award is based on stimulating excellence in practice, teaching and research in the areas of Tax Law, Accounting, Administration and the Company’s Economy, under the perspective of the tax scope.

Joining Roca Junyent

Being a public sector tax policy and tax offence expert, Joan Iglesias joined as a member of the Tax Department and head of the Roca Junyent tax litigation department in January 2019. He is an inspector of the Tax Service on leave. His administrative career has been developed at the Special Delegation of AEAT [Agencia Estatal de Administración Tributaria (State Tax Administration Agency)] in Catalunya, primarily in the departments of Inspection and Collection, where he has exercised various important positions.

He is also a Doctor in Law from the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB). Joan Iglesias has broad teaching experience as a Professor of Finance Law and Tax at various Universities, Professional Schools and specialised training centers. He has published several articles, manuals and monographs on general taxation  and on criminal proceedings for crime against the public tax service.

propiedad-intelectual

TerraLex Cross-Border Copyright Guide

Find attached the full document here.

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Intellectual Property
CDI entre España y EEUU

Tax Alert: Entry into force of Amendments to the Double Taxation Convention between Spain and the United States

20/11/2019

On 27 November 2019, the Protocol[1] introducing important amendments to the Agreement to Avoid Double Taxation signed between Spain and the United States enters into force, (hereinafter, “DTA”). The following are the amendments which, in general terms, we consider to be the most relevant.

 

[1] Protocol amending the Agreement between the Kingdom of Spain and the United States of America for the Avoidance of Double Taxation and the Prevention of Tax Evasion in respect of Income Taxes, and its Protocol, signed in Madrid on 22 February 1990 (BOE (Boletín Oficial del Estado [Official Spanish Gazette]) of 23 October 2019, No. 255)

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Tax
CDI entre España y EEUU

Comparison of the 1990 DTC text and the current DTC text between the US and Spain

The Kingdom of Spain and the United States of America, wishing to conclude an agreement to avoid double taxation and prevent tax evasion with respect to Income Taxes, have introduced a series of amendments to the 1990 Convention.

Find attached the full document here.

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Tax
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