BDO has recorded a total of $12.8 millions in 2022, which represents a year-on-year growth of 12.8% more than 2021. With regard to the number of employees, the firm has increased by 14.4%, which translates into a total of 111,305 professionals in 1,803 offices in 164 countries around the world. In terms of business areas, […]
by ilaria laquinta Young but with clear ideas Jordi Mercadé, 38 years old and managing partner and founder in 2008 of Baker Tilly Abogados, the Spanish legal division of the major consultancy firm. In the last 14 years, under his leadership, the legal team has grown significantly to 70 professionals (including 12 partners), mainly in […]
by michael heron Portugal has been a critical market for Spanish law firms during the last decades. This hardly comes as a surprise, as Spain has consistently topped the FDI (foreign Direct Investment) table for Portugal. Earlier in November, Velae Legal Group announced it was the latest Spanish firm to enter the Portuguese market, merging […]
Andersen Iberia has just launched a China desk and will also be the European coordinator of this initiative, channelling the opportunities that arise in this area for European countries. Coordinated by Juan Ignacio Alonso Dregi (pictured), partner in Andersen’s Barcelona office, together with associate Wenbo Zhou, the China desk will advise both Chinese clients in […]
The Global LegalTech Hub Day (GLTHDay) was held in Madrid as an international epicentre with sold out attendance in person and more than 3,200 attendees from all continents in online format. The Espacio Fundación Telefónica in Madrid has been the main stage and was consecrated as a space for cooperation and coopetition of the legal […]
by michael heron A few years ago, BMW was on the lookout for its next big project. The company needed to find a team capable of innovating and delivering on a series of key products that would arguably shape the future of the business and notably its market share in the electric mobility sector. After […]
The transactional market in the spanish real estate sector has registered up to november 2022 a total of 266 mergers and acquisitions, between announced and closed, for an aggregate amount of €12,780m, according to Transactional Track Record’s (TTR) data. In monthly terms, in november 2022 a total of 40 transactions were recorded in the spanish […]
by ilaria iaquinta A frontline player. This is how Ana Buitrago, in-house counsel with more than 30 years of experience and head of Amazon’s legal services and associate general counsel for Southern Europe, Germany and the UK until recently, describes herself. “I am very committed. When I am in a team, in a league, I […]
by michael heron When a law firm in Iberia announces the creation of a new practice area or team, eyebrows are sometimes raised. Suspicious scepticism is inevitable as one tries to analyse how genuine the attempt is to start or chase a new trend. But when it comes to technology and Ecija, it might be […]
A third of medium-sized companies in Spain admit that they still do not report on any aspects related to their greenhouse gas emissions, while 12% say that they do not have a reporting plan in place at the moment. This puts Spain six points above the European average (28%) and 11 points above the global […]
