In order to counter the decline of Barcelona’s traditional heavy industry and manufacturing base, Iberian Lawyer’s Annual Report finds the city reinventing itself as an international research and development and technology centre to
Barcelona's economic revolution is helping to encourage the emergence of a new business approach, say Joan Roca and Jordi Casas of Roca Junyent.
The current business situation continues to present businesses with new opportunities but the emphasis on advisers must now be more than merely facilitating entries into new markets.
The value of intellectual property (IP) rights may not at first glance be affected by an economic downturn, but the manner in which companies enforce them certainly is, says Alejandro Angulo, partner at Barcelona-based IP
In April 2008, a new regulation developing Organic Law 15/1999 that implemented the EU´s Data Protection Directive, came into force, updating spain´s own existing data protection regulation (LOPD), and bringing stringent new rules affecting the
Iberia has clearly not proved immune to the global downturn in M&A, say lawyers, with transactional and private equity both significantly down. But while companies may not be expanding, many are restructuring and refinancing
The current economic and financial crisis is raising issues that many companies may have never before experienced, says Pedro Rueda, partner at Araoz & Rueda in Madrid. While legal advisers need of course to understand their
Companies contemplating a sale or acquisition in the current business market need to understand that deal valuations and strategies that may have worked only a year ago are now totally outdated, says Fernando Torrente, cohead
Even in the midst of the current economic crisis, and fragility of many business sectors, with the right motivation deals can still be done, say Vanda Cascão and Sofia Barata of Vieira de Almeida (
Despite the collapse of highly leveraged private equity activity, start-up and venture capital investment remains active says Isabel Dutilh, managing partner of Dutilh Abogados in Madrid. But while investments rely much less on bank financing
