Companies across all sectors and of all sizes need to understand the issues that can affect their intellectual property portfolios and strategies, which means that their advisers must make an additional effort to anticipate the

Outsourcing is an area of growing business activity and information technology emphasis across Portugal, says Fernando Resina da Silva, Head of IT at Vieira de Almeida & Associados.

The emergence of new areas of medical research such as pharmacogenomics present not only new regulatory and clinical trial issues, but also impact significantly on data protection regulation, says Maria de Lourdes Lopes Dias of

Falling CD sales and the difficulties of successfully exploiting internet downloads is prompting record companies and recording artists to explore new types of commercial contracts, explains Pedro Alemán of Pedro Alemán Abogados in

The incorporation of more complex dispute resolution clauses in long-term commercial contracts enables parties not only to avoid unnecessary litigation, but also offers the chance to resolve technical or trivial matters without adopting a fixed

The entry into force in September 2007 of a new Spanish Competition Law has brought a dramatic rise in the regulatory emphasis against cartels, says Pedro Callol, Head of Competition at Roca Junyent. The result being

The current economic situation means that law firms must stay close to their clients in order to fully understand the issues impacting on them, but also to be alive to potential new opportunities for them,

Despite the economic uncertainty affecting the Iberian economy the ability of companies to expand across the Spanish and Portuguese borders continues to present many with new and emerging opportunities, says Serena Argente Escartín

The scale and rapid spread of the issues currently affecting the world's finance markets is indicative of both the interconnection and complexity of modern deal-making. But the global business environment is one in which