Grupo Pullmantur´s Javier Somoza says clients do not have to go to top tier law firms to find high quality lawyers, with highly recommended legal advisers available at ‘affordable’ firms
Motivating and attracting young lawyers – in the face of competition from corporations and hedge funds – can be difficult with the result that the legal sector needs to convince new recruits to buy into its values
President Trump’s ‘Buy American, Hire American’ policy not expected to restrict Spanish companies’ ability to win infrastructure development contracts
Lawyers in Lisbon report that international arbitration is a practice area that has undergone ‘extraordinary growth’ in terms of both income and billable hours
The emergence of cutting-edge healthcare technology is rendering current legal frameworks obsolete, while the sector is also generating significant levels of transactional work
Fears that Catalonian independence dispute will lead to decrease in M&A and real estate activity as foreign investors become nervous
Foreign direct investment doubled between 2014 and 2016 as assets in the Portuguese finance, insurance, science and technology sectors changed hands
Deal flow was increasing in the real estate, technology, transport and energy sectors, with private equity deals up 161% year-on-year
