The downturn affecting Spain and Portugal is not the only driver of the current international expansion of Iberia’s major business, but it is certainly encouraging them to look more carefully at foreign markets, say Spanish and Portuguese lawyers.
A focus is placed on rebuilding and restoring Mozambique’s transport and communications infrastructure and to restore its position as a regional conduit to neighbouring landlocked countries.
The past year has seen Chinese investment increase across Latin America’s mining, oil and gas, and agribusiness sectors, says Juan Martín Perrotto, Head of Uría Menéndez’s recently established Beijing office.
There is no single reason why Spanish companies are now increasingly expanding abroad as each is driven by its own strategic needs, but recurring legal themes do arise when businesses move abroad, says Francesc Segura
The major development projects emerging across parts of Africa and the Middle East, where many countries continue to invest heavily in expanding their infrastructure and communications networks, are presenting Iberian companies with new and unique
The globalisation of markets and the need to diversify risk means that expansion is an unavoidable decision – the internationalisation of companies is an unstoppable process. In order to facilitate both clients’ national and international ambitions
The perception of Portugal as a platform to the Portuguese-speaking world derives from years of interconnection enabling it to act as a clear “bridge” for interrnational investors. Portugal has for decades maintained a clear historic,
The influx of international investment into Angola continues but there is also now emerging a flow out of the country, to Europe and elsewhere in Africa. Even in the face of a global drop in
There may be continuing optimism about the long-term economic prospects for Central and Eastern Europe but the lessons learnt in one country are not easily transposed into another. The relative impact of the economic crisis
Most transactions now have an international element, be it the parties involved, the reach of the companies’ operations, the sources of finance or the applicable laws, so consideration must also be given to how any
