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
The publication of a Draft Mediation Law and reforms to the 2003 Arbitration Act indicate that Spain is now taking the two dispute resolution mechanisms seriously, says Bernardo Cremades
This year will see Antonio Vazquez’s role as Vice President and Chief Counsel for Kraft Foods Latin America (KFLA) expand as it integrates the regional operations of Cadbury
In the 22 years that Tomás López Fernebrand has been with Amadeus he has seen a revolution not only in his company’s own business but the travel sector as a whole
