Good yields in the Portuguese real estate market, along with growth in the tourism sector are generating a significant amount of work for lawyers, according to Duarte Garin, managing partner of Uría Menéndez-Proença de Carvalho in Lisbon.
Significant investment in the financial, real estate and tourism sectors set to continue, while clients’ data protection concerns increase
Adjusting to the impact of artificial intelligence on the legal sector is one of the key challenges facing law firms, says João Caiado Guerreiro, managing partner of Caiado Guerreiro.
As Lusophone Africa suffers the effects of lower oil prices, law firms in Lisbon are turning their attention to more unfamiliar jurisdictions
With banks having stricter lending requirements, clients need specialist lawyers who advise them on all stages of a project, including advice on how public bodies will react
Andrade Gutierrez carries out a cost-benefit analysis when selecting legal service providers because the company requires wide-ranging experience and a global perspective, even from local firms
While Grupo FerroAtlántica instructs some of the world’s biggest law firms, it also uses smaller firms as they are sometimes ‘more competitive and efficient’, says Carla Inés Cerdán Molina
Revenue is on the increase again at Araoz & Rueda after several tough years – though the firm has considered a number of merger offers in the past, it continues to cling fiercely to its independence
Remuneration systems often only reward lawyers for what they bill, rather than compensating them for taking on leadership tasks, says Redstone’s Moray McLaren
Duarte Schmidt Lino, partner at PLMJ, says recent events have shown that non-compliant companies can “crumble” in a few months and destroy investors’ and board members’ lives.
