Business setting up and self employment

Geslegal offers a global and specialised service in all aspects of law connected with business. Once you have your business idea, you will need someone to assist in setting up the relevant licenses and registering your business in the appropriate offices such as Social Security and Treasury Department and to provide your staff with contracts of employment.

We cover a wide range of areas of legal assistance, among others:

  • Checked Starting a business or becoming an entrepreneur
  • Checked National and International Taxation
  • Checked Financial Law and Insurance
  • Checked Setting up of companies and trade marks requests
  • Checked International trade operations, logistics, bills of landings and Incoterms
  • Checked International sale of goods, services and securities
  • Checked Import and export as well as Lease contracts and agreements
  • Checked International litigation and arbitration
  • Checked Legal and financial matters at European level.

If you are interested in free legal advice relating to self-employment or starting up a business, please press the button “Legal Advice” on this page.

Legal Advice for Self-employment

If you are thinking of working in Spain and you are an EU national you can enter Spain as a tourist and register with the Spanish National Employment Office (Instituto Nacional de Empleo - INEM) or other regional employment agencies to look for a job, then you have 90 days to find employment. You can obtain an extension after that date or leave Spain and re-enter for a further 90 days. Once you get a job, your employment contract will be necessary to apply for your residence card.

We can offer you expert legal advice and legal assistance in all the legal matters concerning working on your own. In Spain being self employed means you have the status of trabajador autónomo, which in summary means the following:

  • 1.- You are an adult individual who will be carrying out commercial activity without having any type of employment contract with another legal entity. For example, this may be the case for company directors, translators or writers.
  • 2.- Responsibility: As for most other countries the individual is personally responsible out of his/her personal assets for all debts incurred in the course of their commercial activities.
  • 3.- Social security: You will be required to sign up to state social security under the scheme for autónomos (self-employed).
  • 4.- Tax: a self-employed person pays tax at the same rate as for all individuals.
  • 5.- Legal Advice for Starting up a business.

The choice of the legal form to adopt for starting up a company should be made after careful study, in order to choose the one which best suits the characteristics of the project to be carried out. In Spain, the most suitable legal form for small and medium-sized businesses is the Limited Liability Company.

But our services do not end in something as limited as the formation of a company, but we provide legal advice to our clients after the outset of their business ventures, and thereafter in the development and evolution of their economic activities, including any future transformation, disposal or liquidation, as well as in situations involving insolvency. We also advise our clients on their relations with competitors, suppliers, customers and partners, as well as with public administrations and institutions.