The financial crisis has prompted differing responses by law firms, but if this means a return to a more “professional” approach it may be no bad thing, says Luis Riesgo of Jones Day in Madrid
Arbitration practitioners at Debevoise & Plimpton are seeking to establish a new Protocol, which they hope will encourage good practice worldwide
Gómez-Acebo & Pombo is a law firm in transition. Recent years have seen Spain’s fourth largest firm undergo radical change as it seeks to re-stake its claim to be among the country’s pre-eminent
The slowdown at home is pushing Iberian businesses to explore new opportunities abroad. Are they looking to the usual suspects – like Latin America – or new parts of the world, and what role is there to
‘Evolution’ was the theme of the recent Biannual Law Firm Symposium at Georgetown Law School. As firms in some countries start reporting their first rise in business since the financial crisis, lawyers are pretty much
Raposo Bernardo & Associados has emerged as a new kind of internationally-minded Lisbon-based law firm, with a focus as much on developing its profile outside of Portugal as within it. The strategy appears to be working.
Spanish and Portuguese lawyers take a mixed view as to whether Iberia’s transactional markets are coming back to life. Deal volumes remain depressed, as do values, and financing and liquidity concerns continue to complicate
General Counsel must ensure processes exist to discover and deter anti-competitive behaviour The increasingly high profile of competition regulation and regulators, and headlines detailing the dramatic success of anti-cartel and leniency investigations and applications, are
Some of the world's global law firms have started to report the first signs of growth following the recession. Is it true to say that the economic crisis has caused a major change in
The stakeholders in the legal market have finally become aligned – clients are now at the centre of the legal services solar system with premium law firms relegated to an orbiting position, says Bryan Hughes, Chief
