GA_P advises Impax on the sale of a 42 MW PV plant in operation to Sonnedix

In Judgment 1505/2025, the Supreme Court analyses the use of the term 'Donut' by a competitor that markets ring-shaped pastry under another trade mark. Although previous instances considered the use to be merely descriptive, the Supreme Court rejects this on the grounds that it is a reputed trade mark, which triggers enhanced protection. This protection requires avoiding any unfair use of the prestige or distinctive character of the trade mark. The court concludes that the use made was not fair and may involve parasitism and dilution.

The new update to the OECD Model Tax Convention on Income and on Capital incorporates regulatory adjustments, interpretative clarifications and additional criteria in response to recent developments in international taxation. It addresses relevant issues relating, among other things, cross-border teleworking, the exploration and exploitation of natural resources, transfer pricing aspects of financial transactions or information received through exchange of information.

The protocol, agreed jointly by the Courts of Barcelona and Alicante, provides for priority handling of applications for pre-trial examination and fact-finding orders, as well as applications for interim measures —with or without a hearing— in matters relating to patents and technological innovations, industrial designs, trademarks and copyright, as well as antitrust, unfair competition and unlawful advertising, when linked to products or presentation, display, promotion, offering or sale activities connected to MWC 2026.

Recently, the Tax Agency’s departments have been altered in order to, among other things, adapt their roles and responsibilities to new forms of tax-related administrative cooperation —covered by Council Directive (EU) 2021/514 (DAC7) and transposed into the Taxation Act —. Among these, we highlight in this commentary the importance of joint audits, recalling their main characteristics and analysing some of the problems that their implementation may pose

The Supreme Court holds that mere knowledge that the limitation period has been interrupted in relation to another eventual joint and several co-debtor is equivalent to interruption. This doctrine will not be justified in most cases.

This paper analyses the subject matter scope of application of a ‘director liability to shareholder claim’ (claim for payment of damages filed by a shareholder against a company director). Although, as a general rule, shareholders cannot claim compensation for the harm caused to their share in a company’s estate, compensation for de facto expulsions or harm to liquidating dividends may be awarded through a director liability to shareholder claim.

The universal standing of consumer associations has no legal basis and creates perverse effects.

The newsletter covers the main developments in Pharma & Healthcare legislation and case law.

The Government approves royal decree that implement important aspects of internship agreements, such as the maximum number of internship agreements per workplace, the content of individual training plans, details on mentoring processes, and limits on their use.