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Javier Menor leads the Corporate/M&A Practice Group and a partner in Baker McKenzie's Barcelona office. He is also a member of the Firm’s Corporate/M&A, Private Equity and Competition Practices Groups and has 20 years' experience in advising clients in these areas. He is recognized as one of the best lawyers in his field in Spain by the most prestigious directories, including Chambers & Partners, Legal 500 and Best Lawyers. Javier joined Baker McKenzie in 2015 from an international law firm where he was the co-managing partner of the Barcelona office and a member of the global executive committee, in charge of Corporate/M&A at a global level. He is a professor of Competition Law at ESADE Law School and teaches the international contracts program at the Barcelona Bar Association.
In Corporate Compliance

Spain: Royal Decree on Ultimate Beneficial Ownership Registry

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The Government of Spain has approved the creation and operating regulation of the Ultimate Beneficial Ownership Registry, by means of Royal Decree 609/2023 of 11 July 2023, which was published today in the Official State Gazette. This registry is configured as a central and public registry, through which information on ultimate beneficial ownership of Spanish legal entities and other entities or structures without legal personality can be generally accessed.

In Trade and Foreign Investment

Spain: Royal Decree on foreign investments

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The Spanish State Gazette published yesterday contains the Royal Decree 571/2023, of 4 July, on Foreign Investments which is intended to (i) update the procedure for declaring foreign investments for statistical and information purposes (both foreign investments in Spain and Spanish investments abroad); and (ii) develop certain features of Law 19/2003, of 4 July, on the legal regime of capital movements and foreign economic transactions and its implementing regulations, particularly with regard to the introduction of Article 7bis, relating to the suspension of the liberalization regime, in order to provide greater legal certainty to the authorization procedure, for the cases in which this is meant to be mandatory.