Companies’ expansion plans are inevitably on hold until certainty returns to the international banking system, and to which the Bank of Spain’s regulatory approach may suggest the way forward, says Sebastián Albella at Linklaters in Madrid.
Iberian Lawyer’s Madrid Annual finds that despite the economic and financial uncertainty that currently characterises many of Europe’s commercial and legal centres, a sense of pragmatism nonetheless prevails among law firms within the
We are seeing a great deal of international interest in clean technologies, and Spain’s position as a leading global player already in the wind and solar energy sectors clearly suggests further investment opportunities,” says
Companies across all sectors and of all sizes need to understand the issues that can affect their intellectual property portfolios and strategies, which means that their advisers must make an additional effort to anticipate the
Outsourcing is an area of growing business activity and information technology emphasis across Portugal, says Fernando Resina da Silva, Head of IT at Vieira de Almeida & Associados.
The emergence of new areas of medical research such as pharmacogenomics present not only new regulatory and clinical trial issues, but also impact significantly on data protection regulation, says Maria de Lourdes Lopes Dias of
Falling CD sales and the difficulties of successfully exploiting internet downloads is prompting record companies and recording artists to explore new types of commercial contracts, explains Pedro Alemán of Pedro Alemán Abogados in
The incorporation of more complex dispute resolution clauses in long-term commercial contracts enables parties not only to avoid unnecessary litigation, but also offers the chance to resolve technical or trivial matters without adopting a fixed
The entry into force in September 2007 of a new Spanish Competition Law has brought a dramatic rise in the regulatory emphasis against cartels, says Pedro Callol, Head of Competition at Roca Junyent. The result being
The current economic situation means that law firms must stay close to their clients in order to fully understand the issues impacting on them, but also to be alive to potential new opportunities for them,
