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Who it is for
This service is designed for foreign companies and founders ready to establish a legal presence in Spain. Whether you are a post-Brexit UK company, a US technology business looking for a European entity or a Latin American operation expanding into Europe, the legal requirements are the same and the cost of getting it wrong is real. The service covers the complete legal framework: corporate structure, regulatory obligations from day one, commercial contracts and data compliance. By the close of the engagement your company will be legally incorporated and operationally ready to enter the Spanish market.
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Deliverables
Entering Spain without a clear legal analysis of the establishment options available is a decision that is difficult and expensive to reverse. This engagement resolves that analysis first (subsidiary, branch or permanent establishment, with the regulatory and operational implications of each) and then builds the complete legal framework for the chosen structure: incorporation, compliance from day one, GDPR and the commercial contracts needed to operate. You begin trading on a footing that will not need correcting six months into the market.
A unilateral confidentiality agreement signed by PASSAS before the video consultation, available at no additional cost on request. It binds the firm alone — no signature is required from the client — and adds an explicit contractual layer on top of the professional secrecy obligations inherent to the practice of law.
A 60-minute working session by video call in which we analyse your situation, your specific needs and our ability to help you. We assess whether we can take on the matter and give you the fixed price in advance. You can book it directly through the Google Calendar link on our website and pay €90 by Stripe.
Legal analysis of the establishment options available to a foreign company seeking to operate in Spain: subsidiary, branch, permanent establishment or other structures. Determines the recommended structure on the basis of the relevant operational and liability factors, and sets out the map of applicable legal obligations.
The documentation required for GDPR compliance and, more broadly, for any rules on data protection and on the processing and transfer of data, including international transfers, both in dealings with users and with the providers that process data on your behalf, with the legal mechanisms needed to operate without regulatory exposure.
Contractual documentation to formalise relationships with clients and suppliers, with the terms, liabilities and scope clearly defined from the first engagement. Includes the services agreement adapted to the company's operations, with limitation of liability clauses and payment terms, ready to sign.
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Timeline
At PASSAS we work fast, and we intend to be faster than the competition without losing quality along the way. That is why we like to tell you how long you will wait for your service. It is an indicative figure, since some engagements are more complex than others. The Engagement Letter sets out a deadline tailored to your matter, one we will do everything we can to meet, or to beat. That is our commitment to quality.
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Fees
We tell you what you will pay for your service: at PASSAS we work with a transparent fee policy. That said, we are not a marketplace. Every service is tailored and the fees follow the workload borne by the lawyer in charge. Even so, we want to give you an indicative price for this service, so that deciding to instruct us and booking your virtual consultation is easier.
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Frequently asked questions
A subsidiary is a Spanish company with its own legal personality, which ring-fences the liability of the parent and allows the business to operate without restriction. A branch has no separate legal personality, so the parent answers for its obligations, and its registration is quicker. A permanent establishment is a tax characterisation that can arise even without a formal structure, purely from how the business operates in the territory. The choice governs liability, taxation and contracting capacity, and it is decided inside the engagement with the business model in front of us.
Yes. Foreign shareholders and directors need a Spanish tax identification number, and so do foreign companies holding shares in the new entity. It is the step that most often delays an incorporation, because it depends on administrative appointments and on the legalisation or apostille of corporate documents from the country of origin. For that reason it is handled at the start of the engagement rather than at the end.
The engagement runs to three weeks from the point at which the documentation of the parent and the shareholders is available. Incorporation in the strict sense (name reservation, capital, public deed and registration at the Commercial Registry) takes part of that time; the remainder goes on the contracts, data protection compliance and the documentation the company needs in order to start operating.
From €5,000 + VAT, at a fixed price agreed in the engagement letter. It covers the analysis of the form of establishment, incorporation, the contractual architecture, data protection compliance and the legal pack for your digital presence. Notarial and registry charges, public fees and taxes are not legal fees: they are set out separately because a third party sets them and a third party is paid.
Then the question that matters is whether that activity has already created a permanent establishment and what obligations follow, which means reviewing contracts, commercial presence and invoicing flows before deciding anything. The 60 minute Virtual Consultation at €90 (VAT included) exists precisely for that, and the amount is deducted from the first invoice if an engagement follows.
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