Hitachi Energy organized a round table with customers on 7 April to discuss current world events and their possible impact on the company. Ignacio Guillén, from Giménez Torres Abogados, spoke alongside Sven Hoffmann, from Heussen, Germany; David Gu, from JunHe, China; and Philip D’Costa, from Penningtons Manches Cooper, UK, reaching a hearing of 70 Multilaw […]
On 25 September 2020 the First Instance Court No. 81 of Madrid passed a judgment adopting precautionary measures in application of the rebus sic stantibus clause. The doctrine of the rebus sic stantibus clause is a reasonable theoretical construction from an equity point of view but devoid of regulation. It is, above all, a clause […]
1. Background On March 14, the Spanish Government approved the declaration of the state of alarm to deal with the health emergency caused by COVID-19 in Spain, through Royal Decree 463/2020. This Royal Decree established “the suspension and interruption of procedural periods“, that specified that their calculation “shall continue at the moment the Royal Decree […]
On April 28, 2020, the first procedural reform was made to meet the challenge posed by COVID-19 to the Administration of Justice. To this end, the Royal Decree-Law is divided into three chapters; the first dedicated to procedural measures; the second with regard to measures in the field of bankruptcy and corporate; and the third […]
