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Forward through technology: Écija

For a managing partner, Hugo Écija exudes rare confidence in these times. The reason being that his firm Écija is about to enter a bold new stage. It has felt relatively little impact from the

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Gibraltar: Embracing the future

The ECJ’s ruling on the legitimacy of Gibraltar’s fiscal autonomy may help to dispel outdated perceptions of it as a ‘tax haven’ and move it further into the financial mainstream.

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Barcelona Report 2009: Redefining the brand

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

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A more focused approach to IP enforcement

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

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Avoiding the wave of data protection fines

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