Technology and regulated markets in Spain. Move forward with the right authorisation, in the right order.
You have decided to bring a digital-economy or technology product, or a regulated activity, to Spain, or you are about to. We help you sequence the regulatory and commercial route, with a senior lead who coordinates your specialists and keeps the business moving.
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Regulation sets the pace. Someone has to set the sequence.
In regulated sectors the temptation is to wait until everything is resolved, or to launch before knowing what is allowed. Both are expensive. The regulator, partners and first customers run on different calendars.
We lead the sequence: what needs authorisation, what can move in parallel, which conversations come first. Your advisers run the regulatory processes; we make sure they serve the plan.
By sector: manufacturing, agriculture and energy · financial services, retail and travel · government, education and healthcare.
Phase 1
Map the perimeter
Which parts of the activity are regulated in Spain, based on your advisers' analysis, and what that means for the plan.
Phase 2
Sequence the route
Regulatory, commercial and operational work, so work moves in parallel instead of waiting in series.
Phase 3
Coordinate your specialists
Regulatory processes, through your advisers, aligned with the business.
Phase 4
Partners and first customers
Preparing conversations with sector partners and first customers consistent with your regulatory position.
03 / When it fits
When it fits.
Instead of waiting for the licence before thinking about the marketWhat can move in parallel should.
Instead of launching and regularising laterIn regulated sectors, order matters.
Instead of purely legal adviceLegal analysis is essential; leadership sets the business sequence.
04 / What goes wrong
The expensive mistake is in the order. The filing is the known part.
Typical costly mistakes
- 01Treating regulation as a final step
- 02Promising customers or partners before knowing what is allowed
- 03Assuming an authorisation obtained in another country is enough for Spain before confirming with your advisers what Spain requires
- 04Keeping regulatory advisers apart from the commercial plan
- 05Confusing strategic advice with a licence
Common objections
“We already have regulatory advisers.”
Good. We coordinate your lawyers, auditors and specialists; we do not replace them.
“Licence first, everything else later.”
Often there is commercial and operational work that can move in parallel, respecting the process.
05 / Questions
Frequently asked questions.
Do you obtain licences or authorisations?
Your advisers run regulatory processes. We coordinate and sequence: what needs authorisation, what can move in parallel and which conversations to have first.
Which sectors do you work with?
Digital economy, technology and regulated activities in general. We assess each case on the call.
How quickly do you reply?
We aim to reply within two business days.
06 / Next step
Book a free 30-minute diagnostic call.
A direct conversation with our Founder & CEO about entering a regulated market in Spain: where you are, what is blocking you and what can move now. We aim to reply within two business days. We are a small senior firm. Each mandate is a Year One Partners engagement. Personally led by our Founder & CEO, Xavier Cima, who brings in senior advisors for each client when the mandate requires it or, if the client prefers, recommends senior advisors for the client to engage directly; the decision always rests with the client. Y1P is responsible for the scope, the deliverables and the organisation of its own mandate; advisors the client engages directly are responsible for their own engagement.
Email us to book the callWhat to include
Help us prepare the call.
- 01Company name and website
- 02Home country
- 03Sector
- 04Stage (for example Series A, B or C)
- 05Target date for starting in Spain
Send these details by email to office@yearonepartners.com.
Scope
What we do, and what you get.
We advise boards and CEOs of companies from any market entering Spain and Europe in the digital economy or a regulated sector. We work in phases: map the perimeter, sequence the route, coordinate your specialists and prepare partners and first customers. You get a map of licences and authorisations built with your lawyers, a route that sequences regulatory, commercial and operational work, and partner and customer conversations consistent with your regulatory position. Your advisers run the regulatory processes. Your board decides.