As the year of 2016 is coming to an end, there is an interesting melting pot of draft legal frameworks and circumstances in Portugal that call for renewed focus on the advantages of competition law compliance.
The conclusions presented on 13 July by the Advocate-General of the European Court of Justice regarding the compatibility of the limitation of the retroactivity of the annulment of floor clauses with EU law seem not to
DLA Piper was instructed by Telefónica on the €321 million sale of Argentinian free-to-air channel Televisión Federal to Viacom.
Linklaters’ Lisbon office advised Chinese conglomerate Fosun on the acquisition of a 16.7 per cent stake in Portuguese bank Millennium BCP.
Linklaters’ senior partner in Madrid, Sebastián Albella Amigo, has joined the Spanish Securities and Exchange Commission (CNMV) as president.
Jones Day has recruited tax partner Carlos Albiñana from Allen & Overy.
Lisbon law firm RRP Advogados represented cement company Secil before the European Court of Justice in its victorious tax case relating to inbound dividends paid by non-EU companies.
Cuatrecasas Gonçalves Pereira represented Uber in the European Court of Justice in a case related to the company’s provision of digital services.
Lisbon-based Miranda Alliance has added a new member office in Ivory Coast as it seeks to boost its practice in Francophone Africa.
Allen & Overy advised Infracapital on the €150 million sale of Spanish photovoltaic plants located in Huesca, Navarra and Valladolid to Renovalia.
