Lawyers specialising in a particular field understand a client’s business and therefore the advice they provide is practical, rather than theoretical, says Citibank’s Isabel Charraz
Chinese toy manufacturer Rastar Group was advised by Rousaud Costas Duran on the acquisition of 54% of the capital share of Spanish La Liga football club RCD Espanyol.
Herbert Smith Freehills advised the Kingdom of Spain in its victorious investor-state arbitration under the Stockholm Chamber of Commerce rules commenced by European investors Charanne (of the Netherlands) and Construction Investments (of Luxembourg).
Cuatrecasas Gonçalves Pereira advised Banco Popular on the sale of Universalpay Entidad de Pago to US company EVO Payments International.
Ontier advised Grupo Carso, the Latin American conglomerate owned by the Mexican billionaire Carlos Slim, on its takeover bid for property company Realia.
Confidence building in Portuguese legal sector with more than half of partners in Portugal expecting a further increase in earnings in 2016
