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market need to understand that deal valuations and strategies that may have worked only a year ago are now totally outdated, says Fernando Torrente, cohead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
The past few months may have seen Portuguese and Spanish investors freeze their international expansion, in line with uncertainty over company and asset values and finance availability, but the latter half of 2009 will likely see
Lessons from the past can help consortia prepare for future Portuguese projects, says Maria Castelos, partner in the PLMJ project team.
With the intention of attracting highly qualified professionals and other high net worth individuals in order to facilitate and promote the transfer of scientific, technical and artistic knowledge, and consequently contribute to Portugal’s economical
In this modern world of global economics and commerce, piracy and counterfeiting are increasingly at the top of both the economic players’ and lawmakers’ concerns as their impact on business, industry, consumers and the economy
In late February, the European private equity industry was given an opportunity to present its views to the European Union on the regulatory framework which should apply to it in the future. In front of
On February 2, 2008, decree-law no 363/2007 came into force and the production of energy in Portugal entered a new era. The principle behind the new law is to save energy, reduce costs and protect the environment. Indeed,
