In April 2008, a new regulation developing Organic Law 15/1999 that implemented the EU´s Data Protection Directive, came into force, updating spain´s own existing data protection regulation (LOPD), and bringing stringent new rules affecting the way that businesses manage their data, says Marta Plana at Osborne Clarke in Barcelona, increasingly regarded as the technology capital […]
For Jochi Jiménez, General Counsel and Compliance Officer at HCC Global Financial Products (HCC Global), the global economic crisis is bringing changing legal requirements, opportunities and risks.
Lisbon-based Sérvulo has looked to expand its practice spread in recent years, but its core focus on government and projects work means that it now faces a window of opportunity, say its lawyers.
Iberian lawyers’ continue to assess the relative merits of “alternative-based” billing
El presidente del IBA, Fernando Peláez Pier, que participó recientemente en un desayuno organizado por Iberian Lawyer, sugirió que los abogados internacionales estaban sufriendo – aunque la medicina necesaria para la enfermedad de la profesió
El primer boceto del Reglamento de la Ley de Acceso a debate
As far as companies response to the cartel threat goes, prevention is always better than cure, believes Jaime Pérez-Bustamante, partner and head of competition at Linklaters in Madrid.
The current global economic situation is creating challenges for competition law but it must nonetheless overcome them, believes Nuno Ruiz, partner and head of competition at Vieira de Almeida.
The unfolding global financial crisis is prompting governments to circumvent established competition or procedural rules leaving the potential for continuing administrative confusion, say Miguel Pena Machete and Claudio Monteiro of Serra Lopes Cortes Martins &
The increase in company disputes arising out of the declining economic situation across Iberia is placing further strains on Spain and Portugal’s domestic courts, say lawyers, and as a result now is the time
