Es lugar común el miedo que el deudor concursado tiene al día después de haber presentado el concurso. Básicamente es el miedo a lo desconocido, la sensación de dejar de tener el timón de su vida, de su negocio, aunque lleve rumbo de colisión. El día después de que...

En los contratos de franquicia resulta común la obligación a cargo del franquiciado de no ejercer, directa o indirectamente, una actividad comercial similar a aquella en la que se ejecuta el modelo de empresa de la franquiciadora, así como la obligación de no...

The fear the bankrupt debtor feels the day after filing for bankruptcy is commonplace. Basically, it is fear of the unknown, the feeling of no longer being at the helm of the business while it is continuing on its collision course. The day after the lawyer has...

La legislación concursal esta pensada para ayudar a las empresas a mantener su actividad en situaciones de dificultad empresarial. Para ello determina de una forma clara, junto con la legislación mercantil el quien, el cuando, y el porque. El articulo primero de la...

The Civil Code’s Article 1911 is irrefutable. Consequently, until there is reform in our bankruptcy law, an individual person’s bankruptcy does not relieve the debtor from his debts, that means, once bankruptcy proceedings are finalized, the debtor continues to owe...

Bankruptcy law is designed to help companies maintain their business while in difficult commercial situations. In order to do this, the who, when, and why has to be determined in a clear way, supplemented by commercial legislation. The first article of the...

A nuestro despacho ha llegado un asunto bastante llamativo por la conducta llevada a cabo por la entidad franquiciadora. Nuestro cliente lleva más de diez años en su negocio como franquiciado y recientemente la entidad franquiciadora ha abierto otra tienda a...

Like all offices, clients requests come in everyday relating to clients who are managing mortgages or on the point of foreclosing one. Faced with the huge amount of remedial information, everybody thinks that it´s the easiest thing in the world to get the bank to...

"El articulo 1911 del código civil es irrefutable:” Por ello, hasta que se produzca la reforma de nuestra legislación concursal, el concurso de acreedores de persona física no libra al concursado de sus deudas, esto es, una vez finalizado el proceso concursal, el...

Upon my return from my journey to the British Isles, during which I tried to explain and highlight what the bankruptcy procedure situation is in Spain, I had a visit from someone with a question which took me back to 2007. The question brought up by the client is,...

Yesterday I was in a Preliminary Hearing in Madrid (the phase where the evidence is taken to Court). The dispute was about the termination of a contract on behalf of the opposing party (client in the contractual relationship) for shortcomings in delivery on behalf...

In July a creditors meeting made up of a group of three industrial companies dependent on each other took place in the office. The problem, like in so many other bankruptcies, was the impossibility of getgetting the business back on its feet through all types of...

Lately, certain matters have come into the office relating to the fact that the Inland Revenue (or equiv. for Social Security payments/TGSS) assumes responsibility for debts against commercial firm managements originating from the non-payment of employers...

At the beginning of BLOG http://wp.me/pMXkE-36 the issue is discussed about a company that had urged a liability claim against the administrators. Commercial Court No.2 in Barcelona pronounced Sentence Number 251/11 in which it was established on one hand that the...

Ayer estuve en una audiencia previa (fase en la que se aportan al Juzgado los medios de prueba) en Madrid. El pleito versa sobre la resolución de un contrato por parte del contrario (cliente en la relación contractual) por defectos en el cumplimiento de la...

The effects of an auction in settlement of bankruptcy proceedings Fascinating. Our office defends a debtor in a matter which seems very interesting to me and which I think has its own merits. The story is as follows. Within the bankruptcy proceedings something...

Las reclamaciones laborales por parte de trabajadores generalmente genera un crédito que,según nuestra experiencia, se queda incobrable, con la esperanza de que sea FOGASA el que se haga cargo del mismo. No queda más esperanza ante el AUTO del Juzgado que determina...

On numerous occasions business people don’t know exactly where they are and can’t find the help and advice they need. The lawyer is always very busy, the broker agent is someone from all their life and the situation is getting worse. The result is that businessmen...

Labour related claims on behalf of workers generally generate credit which, according to our experience, remains unrecoverable in the hope that FOGASA will be able to take it on. There is little hope that the Court decree will determine the company as insolvent....

A colleague recently asked me to help him out in a matter relating to one of his clients about suspending business activity for various reasons. The clients, who were European, flexible and open-minded and used to changes in trading companies, understood that the...