Simpson Thacher advised Copec on the acquisition of ExxonMobil’s fuels and lubricants distribution business in Colombia, Peru and Ecuador.
Watson Farley & Williams (WFW) advised industrial supplies distributor IPH Group on the acquisition of Madrid-based industrial product provider Julsa.
Linklaters advised information technology company Tecnocom in relation to a takeover bid from Spanish consulting company Indra.
Allen & Overy has hired M&A partner Fernando Torrente from Cuatrecasas Gonçalves Pereira.
MLGTS advised Sonae Investment Management on the acquisition of stakes in three venture capital funds.
Portuguese law firm Vieira de Almeida (VdA) has recruited real estate partner Miguel Marques dos Santos from Garrigues.
The data protection paradigm is changing and companies in Portugal will soon be responsible for this issue, says Gabriela Barreto, general counsel at ACP Automóvel Club de Portugal.
PLMJ partner Daniel Reis says that, in general, organisations do not analyse the risk of data protection activities on individual rights.
Despite a scarcity of assets in the Spanish real estate market, opportunist funds are still looking to complete more ‘imaginative’ deals, while in Portugal, development and tourism-related projects are generating considerable work for lawyers
