Raposo Bernardo & Associados has emerged as a new kind of internationally-minded Lisbon-based law firm, with a focus as much on developing its profile outside of Portugal as within it. The strategy appears to be working.
Spanish and Portuguese lawyers take a mixed view as to whether Iberia’s transactional markets are coming back to life. Deal volumes remain depressed, as do values, and financing and liquidity concerns continue to complicate
The stakeholders in the legal market have finally become aligned – clients are now at the centre of the legal services solar system with premium law firms relegated to an orbiting position, says Bryan Hughes, Chief
The publication of a Draft Mediation Law and reforms to the 2003 Arbitration Act indicate that Spain is now taking the two dispute resolution mechanisms seriously, says Bernardo Cremades
This year will see Antonio Vazquez’s role as Vice President and Chief Counsel for Kraft Foods Latin America (KFLA) expand as it integrates the regional operations of Cadbury
In the 22 years that Tomás López Fernebrand has been with Amadeus he has seen a revolution not only in his company’s own business but the travel sector as a whole
The enforcement of competition law in Spain has experienced important changes during the last two and a half years. A new Act (Act 15/2007, on Defence of Competition, ADC) entered into force, creating a new Competition
Various positive measures are now available as alternatives to making redundancies. Rather than provide an analysis of the various measures as outlined in Article 51 of the Spanish Workers Statute here we set out some of
Gibraltar continues to move to the ‘onshore’™ mainstream but events inside and outside the Territory continue to impact on its economic evolution, while a recent scandal has placed the legal market itself under scrutiny.
Following the legal authorisation included in the 2009 Budget Law, the Portuguese Government approved on September 23, 2009, the new tax regime for non habitual resident investors (alias nonordinary tax regime, alias foreign tax resident regime).
