Role Conflict and Role Ambiguity in the Family Business
Being father and chairman at once is the problem everyone sees. Not knowing what is expected of each person weighs more, and is discussed far less.
Pablo Gómez-Acebo Calonje
Analysis and reflections
Business and private wealth law, and everything around it: decisions, families and people.
Third-generation therapies in the family business
- IWhat behavioral science already knows, and hasn’t reached the family council yet
- IIBehavioral activation, or paralysis by prudence
- IIIAcceptance and commitment, or the protocol turned into a cage
- IVDialectical behaviour therapy, or why you cannot separate the family from the business
- VFunctional analytic psychotherapy, or the adviser is in the room too
- VIMindfulness-based cognitive therapy, or the protocol that does not provide for relapse
From family business to family office: what breaks along the way
Many families do not break while they have the business. They break after selling it, when only wealth remains. And the reason is not money.
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The Rise of the External General Counsel: What the Data Says, and What I See from Spain
More and more midsize companies and subsidiaries of international groups are engaging their general counsel from outside. The data, and the view from inside.
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The In-House Legal Department Nobody Knows They Can Have
Between calling a law firm and getting by without help there is a third way that few midsize companies consider: the external general counsel.
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Critical Thinking and Postformal Thought: What Actually Protects a Professional Against AI
Everyone calls for critical thinking. What truly protects a professional from artificial intelligence is another skill, less well known.
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Real estate taxation in Spain: a 2026 reference note
An overview of the taxes on buying, renting and holding real estate in Spain, for residents, non residents, individuals and companies.
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The Living Will: What No One Else Can Decide For You
The one document that is not about money or companies. It is about the body, and about who decides for it when you can no longer speak.
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When It’s Already Too Late: The Cost of Not Having Decided
What happens in the family and in the business when capacity is lost with nothing planned, and what can still be done.
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New Family Business Law in Madrid: 99% Reduction on Inheritance and Gifts
Madrid increases the tax relief on inheriting or gifting a family business, widens who can benefit and shortens the time it must be kept.
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How to Set Up a Company in Spain From Abroad, Without Ever Visiting
A foreign partner can set up a Spanish company without traveling to Spain. The full procedure, step by step, and the one formality that does require being there.
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The Crossroads of the Family Business: Cognitive Decline, Law 8/2021, and Corporate Control
When the founder begins to falter, everyone notices and nobody says so. What the law provides and how to protect the person and the business without breaking the family.
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Assertive Lawyering: Neither Passive Nor Aggressive
Neither yielding nor attacking. Psychology has described a third way since 1949, and Spain's Organic Law 1/2025 is pushing lawyers towards it.
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The Family Conversation: Why It Fails and How to Frame It
Why family conversations about powers of attorney and autocuratela break down, and how to structure them. Three reasons, five decisions, and when to bring in a third party.
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The Preventive Power of Attorney: The Front Door Before Autocuratela
A well-designed preventive power of attorney avoids going to court. What it is, its two modalities, and why it pays to combine it with autocuratela.
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The Conversation No One Wants to Have: Autocuratela
Since 2021 you can appoint, in a public deed, who will support you if you ever need it. What autocuratela is, how it's granted, and how to talk about it as a family.
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You’re not being empathetic, you’re being sympathetic
For years I confused empathy with sympathy. Why listening without trying to fix things changes conversations, and negotiating tables too.
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The 10% That Saves Us: Why AI Still Has No Biography
Artificial intelligence is right almost every time. What it still lacks is a life lived, and that is where the judgment that sets a professional apart comes from.
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Survivorship Bias in the Legal Profession: Success or Attrition Tolerance?
Making partner no longer convinces as the measure of success. Perhaps large firms do not select the best, but those who best withstand the wear.
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AI and editorial responsibility
When a text must be labeled as generated by artificial intelligence, and when it is enough for a professional to review it and answer for it.
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European Artificial Intelligence Regulation: what every company must review now
The AI Regulation is already in force. Prohibited practices, the 2026 timeline, and the steps your company must take before August.
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“Sorry, not for you”: The Day They Pulled the Plug on Our AI
The risk of depending on models we do not control is no longer a warning. What it means for a European company to lose access from one day to the next.
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The Matthew Effect in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
Artificial intelligence does not level abilities. It multiplies the advantage of those who already know how to think, and leaves the rest further behind.
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The Fear of Looking Stupid
Perhaps the greatest value of artificial intelligence is not giving right answers, but letting us ask the questions we do not dare to ask in front of others.
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Broken Contract
The graduates who boo speakers praising artificial intelligence are not rejecting technology. They are protesting a contract between generations that they feel has been broken.
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The AI Nobody Hired
Many companies already use artificial intelligence without asking the usual questions: who answers if something goes wrong, and what happens to confidential information.
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We Did It with Gas. We Are Doing It with AI.
Today's price for artificial intelligence is an entry price. Europe already learned with gas what it costs to depend on a supplier who later changes the terms.
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