As far as companies response to the cartel threat goes, prevention is always better than cure, believes Jaime Pérez-Bustamante, partner and head of competition at Linklaters in Madrid.
The current global economic situation is creating challenges for competition law but it must nonetheless overcome them, believes Nuno Ruiz, partner and head of competition at Vieira de Almeida.
The unfolding global financial crisis is prompting governments to circumvent established competition or procedural rules leaving the potential for continuing administrative confusion, say Miguel Pena Machete and Claudio Monteiro of Serra Lopes Cortes Martins &
The increase in company disputes arising out of the declining economic situation across Iberia is placing further strains on Spain and Portugal’s domestic courts, say lawyers, and as a result now is the time
The rising demand for arbitration expertise in Brazil offers opportunities for Portuguese lawyers both inside and outside of the country, says José Miguel Judice, a founding partner of PLMJ in Lisbon.
As the number of company insolvencies in Spain continues to climb, emphasis is therefore being placed by creditors on ensuring that any agreements they enter into are capable of standing up to scrutiny in a
From an international arbitration perspective, the last five years have seen a revolution of arbitration in Spain, says Jean-Marie Vulliemin, partner of Switzerland’s Froriep Renggli, currently celebrating the 5th anniversary of its office in
Spain is experiencing a new wave of disputes driven by the economic crisis, says Pablo Bernad Ramoneda, Head of KPMG’s Europe Middle East and Africa Forensic Group, a clear trend from which is an
Given the current economic context, the ongoing revision of Portugal’s Labour Code offers the potential to promote greater economic growth and business competitiveness, through its stated intention to increase productivity and employment levels.
On 21 December 2007, Law 47/2007 amending the Spanish Securities Market Law (LMV) implementing the Directive on Markets in Financial Instruments 2004/39/EC (MiFID) came into force.
