On 18 March 2020, Royal Decree-Law 8/2020 of 17 March, on urgent extraordinary measures to deal with the economic and social impact of COVID-19, entered into force. This regulation has been adopted by the Spanish government in the context of the state of alarm in which the country finds itself...

Although it has not been possible to replace the Bankruptcy Act with a completely new law (the last attempt was the "Preliminary Insolvency Act" ( Voorontwerp Insolventiewet ) in 2007), the Bankruptcy Act has (fortunately) had many updates since 1893. The most recent update, the Modernization Bankruptcy Procedure Act (...

This series of articles was originally published in EG magazine and online: article one – an untapped opportunity , article two – what are the barriers , and article three – the way forward Tokenisation refers to the process of representing an asset on a blockchain, with tokens issued to...

This Insight sets out a high level summary of key parts of the Coronavirus Act 2020, which received royal assent and became law in the UK on 25 March 2020. The full text of the Act and near-final accompanying Explanatory Notes are available online. The Act provides the legal basis...