Unlocking the EU Market: A Spotlight on Navigating Spain and Portugal’s Legal Landscapes for Japanese Investors

As the global landscape evolves, recognising potential markets’ legal and regulatory frameworks is essential.

With its dynamic economy, an environment conducive to growth and innovation, and a welcoming stance towards investors, the EU and, in particular, Spain and Portugal, offer a stable market with diverse investment opportunities within a common legal ecosystem.

The Spanish Chamber of Commerce in Japan, in partnership with its corporate member, the leading Iberian law firm Pérez-Llorca, is organising an event tailored for Japan’s leading organisations, offering a unique platform to explore the vibrant opportunities within the EU market, with a particular focus on Spain and Portugal, while addressing the complexities of their legal systems.

This seminar is designed to unravel the intricacies of the intricacies of the EU foreign direct investment (FDI), public subsidies, antitrust, intra-EU trade and import regulation, as well as the Spanish and Portuguese legal environments, in order to facilitate a smoother transition for Japanese corporations looking to invest or expand their footprint in Spain and Portugal.

EU市場の解放：日本投資家がスペイン・ポルトガルの法的背景を操作する際の注目点

グローバル化する現代では、可能性のある市場での法律や規制を認識することが重要になっています。

EU、特ににスペインやポルトガルでは、活動的な経済、成長、革新に有利な環境、そして投資家を歓迎する姿勢があることから、共通のエコシステム内で多様な投資機会を提供する安定した市場を提供しています。

在日スペイン商工会議所は、企業会員でありイベリア半島の先導的法律事務所Pérez-Llorcaと提携し、EU市場内で活気ある機会を探求するためのイベントを日本主要向けに開催いたします。特にスペインとポルトガルに焦点を当て、法律システムの複雑さ対処に役立つ内容となっています。

このセミナーは、EUの外国直接投資（FDI）、公的補助金、独占禁止法、EU内貿易、輸入規制、およびスペインとポルトガルの法的環境の複雑さを理解するためにデザインされており、日本の企業がスペインやポルトガルへの投資や足場拡大をスムーズに進めるための支援を目的としています。

About the Speakers

Fausto Romero-Miura

Partner at Pérez-Llorca and Head of the Asian Desk

Fausto Romero-Miura joined Pérez-Llorca in 2000 and made partner in January 2007. He is also in charge of the firm’s Asian Desk. In 2004, Fausto went on secondment to Dewey Ballantine LLP in New York, where he joined the Project Finance team and worked on various international real estate and project finance transactions in LatAm.

Fausto has extensive experience in advising national and international clients on all types of transactions related to the real estate market including the financing, development, execution and acquisition of projects in the real estate, infrastructure and energy fields, including mergers and acquisitions and joint ventures.

He is also very active in advising hedge funds and investment funds on all types of acquisitions in Spain (NPLs, corporate debt, corporate stakes, portfolios of assets, etc.).

His main clients are national and international investors, banks, investment funds, hedge funds, sponsors, industrial companies and national and international developers.

Pablo Hontoria

Partner at Pérez-Llorca and Resident Partner of the Singapore Office

Pablo Hontoria joined Pérez-Llorca in 2011. In 2015, he participated in the opening of Pérez-Llorca’s New York office, where he worked until 2017. Between 2018 and 2020, Pablo worked as an international associate in the New York office of Willkie Farr & Gallagher. In 2020, he returned to the Madrid office and since the beginning of 2023, after its opening, he has been in charge of Pérez-Llorca’s Singapore office.

Pablo specialises in advising domestic and international clients on mergers and acquisitions, transfers of assets and business units, as well as corporate law and corporate governance matters.

He advises both funds and industrial groups on transnational transactions in sectors such as energy, infrastructure, software and food.

While at Willkie Farr & Gallagher in New York as an international associate, he was involved in M&A and venture capital transactions, both in the United States and internationally, with a special focus on the Latin American market.

Recently, he has been involved in the transactions led from the firm’s New York and Madrid offices and has participated in and led a number of significant transactions in the US, Asia-Pacific and Spanish markets in recent years.