Iñigo Cisnero’s appointment as General Counsel of Gamesa Corporación Tecnológica coincided with a dramatic change in strategic direction for the wind energy company, he says. The result has been to place increased responsibility on the legal department, for its lawyers to play a much closer role in operations, and for them to be able to […]
Ashurst’s pre-emptive emphasis on distressed debt and refinancing issues has helped shape not only its response to the global downturn in M&A and leveraged transactions, but also strengthened the firm’s focus towards
Law firms placing increased emphasis on building international links
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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 Sebastiá
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
