The European Commission recently announced new legislation to address work-life balance and women’s underrepresentation in the labour market. Across the EU, the overall rate of employment of women is still 11.5 percentage points lower than that of men and it estimates that the economic loss due to the gender employment…
The Criminal Code was amended through Organic Law 1/2019 (the “Law”) to incorporate certain EU Directives, specifically Directive…
Despite geopolitical shifts, uncertainty and various factors that seem to affect numerous sectors, the global luxury and fashion…
Introduction Following the recent third rejection of the Brexit withdrawal agreement in the UK Parliament, a no-deal Brexit remains firmly on the agenda. This alert sets out some of the main sanctions and export controls issues arising from a no-deal Brexit which are likely to impact upon companies operating in…
We are pleased to invite you to the ICC-Baker McKenzie Thirteenth Annual Conference 2019 on “Trends and Developments…
Leverage the value of connected compliance to your competitive advantage In the autumn of 2017, we spoke with…
Across the globe, tax is at the top of the agenda in newsrooms and boardrooms alike, owing to a marked rise in the number of cases being contested. New research Baker McKenzie recently conducted shows that the amount of tax globally under dispute is so large that it wipes out…
The Spanish Ministry of Justice issued Ministerial Order 319/2018 which requires Spanish non-listed companies to disclose their ultimate beneficial owners to the Companies Registry and keep said information updated.
A judicial decision has confirmed the admissibility as evidence, to justify a dismissal, of the emails of the dismissed employee obtained in the course of an internal investigation.
In an opinion issued on 22 November 2017, EU-the Advocate General confirmed that the EU competition law provisions do not apply to companies that are part of the same corporate group. However, assurances from those companies might be necessary in case of simultaneous participation in public tendering process in order to protect the free and fair competition between all tenderers.