The Supreme Court has handed down a ruling of particular relevance to companies whose place of work is physically the same as their registered office. The ruling examines whether the Labour and Social Security Inspectorate may freely gain access, without the company’s consent and without a court order, to an industrial unit, office, premises or production facility that also serves as the registered office of a commercial company.

On 2 December 2025, the Council of Ministers approved a further postponement of the Verifactu Regulation, once again delaying its entry into force until 2027. The measure is set out in Royal Decree-Law 15/2025, published in the Official State Gazette (BOE) on 3 December 2025. This decision represents a further change to the timetable for the roll-out of the Veri*factu systems and certified invoicing software, which form part of the government’s strategy to strengthen tax control and reduce fraud.

A trade mark review should not be limited to confirming that registrations exist and have been renewed. The real aim is to understand the role the trade mark plays in the business. Before consulting databases or requesting certificates, it is worth understanding the target’s business strategy: the importance of the trade mark in attracting customers

A new round of applications for generic top-level domains (gTLDs) by ICANN is scheduled for April 2026, the first such round since 2012. Top-level domains (TLDs) are the final part of a domain name. This means that any company that meets the requirements will be able to apply for its own top-level domain extension, as companies such as Canon, Seat and Barclays have already done with the gTLDs .canon, .seat and .barclays.