Joint ventures between international real estate investors and local partners in Spain are a growing trend which is providing significant opportunities for law firms, according to BDO Abogados’ head of real estate, Juan Gómez-Acebo.
Investment in retail property in Spain has exceeded €3.2bn so far this year, with a number of major assets having changed hands in recent months
Demand among foreign investors for Portuguese real estate assets is soaring with the result that, in some segments of the market, it is starting to outpace supply, says Maria Margarida Torres, a senior lawyer at
The introduction of new EU rules on data protection means it will be boom time for TMT lawyers in the next year
Storage of large amounts of sensitive data on the cloud, as well as the greater reliance on third parties to provide services creating complex legal issues
Firms with ‘shared vision’ link-up as Spanish clients grow operations in Portugal, while imminent introduction of General Data Protection Regulation promises significant opportunities
Companies digitising their businesses need to adapt their entire client contracting process as well as changing their organisation’s internal regulations
Technology, media and telecommunications (TMT) lawyers in Portugal are able to provide an effective range of legal services to foreign clients acting in other jurisdictions, says Magda Cocco, partner at Vieira de Almeida in Lisbon.
New regulations enforce tough penalties for breaches of the law with clients facing fines of €20m or 4 per cent of their total worldwide turnover
