{mosimage} The internet has changed the world but as there are no barriers to information flows, an important issue is the determination of where liability limits lie, says David Miranda, corporate and technology partner with Osborne Clarke in Barcelona
The economic crisis may have slowed the dramatic growth of the Spanish franchising sector but companies continue to utilise the model to develop their domestic and international expansion, say Fernando J. García Martín
The growth of arbitration is less dependent on the ups and downs of the economy and more about businesses awareness of the process, especially on a regional level
Some suggest that the current changes in the legal market will require new approaches to how law firms will attract and keep their best lawyers. If so, does this require pay and promotion which is
Iberia’s lawyers report that the financial crisis is clearly having an impact on the nature and volume of disputes now being seen. The downturn is bringing more business pressures and commercial relations are under
Competition lawyers across Iberia agree that the financial crisis has had a clear impact on the type of work they are now seeing, but equally significant has been the increasing confidence and remit of national
The European Commission has played a vital role in helping mitigate the impact of the financial crisis, say lawyers in Brussels, but issues continue to emerge and procedural flexibility can only help so much
The start of May will see UK-based Lovells and Hogan & Hartson of the US merge to create Hogan Lovells, one of the top ten largest law firms in the world by both size and revenue.
The State aid question is clearly now highly relevant to companies, believes José Luis Buendía, Head of Garrigues’ Brussels office.
The downturn is not lessening the impact or application of competition law principles
