Soundly regulated and safe financial institutions are crucial for financial stability in the European Union (EU), and must have as their foundation a common framework ensuring prudential oversight and consumer protection throughout the internal market.
The current financial and economic crisis is affecting the performance of many companies and employers have inevitably felt the need to implement cost-saving measures.
On 2 June 2009 a new rule of the Spanish Treasury Department (EHA/1421/2009) entered into force which, within the context of the market abuse regime, regulates the criteria defining, and develops the obligations, procedures and forms of
The Portuguese real estate market is going through an obvious period of stagnation, caused by the financial crisis, which has rapidly spread to real estate promotion, sales and purchases.
Brisa, one of the world’s leading motorway concession companies with operations across Europe, North and Latin America, is continuing to face new legal issues
Governments and regulators have seen a clear need to respond to the global financial crisis, but how such mechanisms will work in practice has yet to be fully explained
Despite the scale of the legislation now emerging in response to the financial crisis, regulatory and legal certainty will always prove a challenge, says Manuel Conthe
Legal heads should emphasise the efficient use of technology across their own departments, businesses and with law firms, says Christopher Barnard, General Counsel Coca-Cola Europe
Iberia´s in-house lawyers report that more than ever they want law firms to know their businesses better, to be more proactive and to highlight issues they may not even know they need help with.
For many around the world, Bernardo Cremades is the most public face of Spain’s arbitration community. At home he promoted the reform of what was then an outdated arbitration regime and supported the launch