Iberia’s lawyers report that the financial crisis is clearly having an impact on the nature and volume of disputes now being seen. The downturn is bringing more business pressures and commercial relations are under
Competition lawyers across Iberia agree that the financial crisis has had a clear impact on the type of work they are now seeing, but equally significant has been the increasing confidence and remit of national
The European Commission has played a vital role in helping mitigate the impact of the financial crisis, say lawyers in Brussels, but issues continue to emerge and procedural flexibility can only help so much
Perhaps the clearest message from the 70-plus General Counsel attending this year`s In-House College – hosted by Iberian Lawyer with ESADE Law School – was the increasing requirement to get more from less and add more
The start of May will see UK-based Lovells and Hogan & Hartson of the US merge to create Hogan Lovells, one of the top ten largest law firms in the world by both size and revenue.
The past 18 months have seen unprecedented pressures placed on the European economy bringing to the forefront role of the European Commission (EC), says Nadia Calviño, Deputy Director General for Mergers and Antitrust in the
The renewed focus of much of the work of the Banco Banesto legal team is towards analysing and balancing risk, says Mónica López-Monís, Secretary General
Javier Folguera’s role as General Counsel and Vice-Secretary to the Board of leading Spanish satellite company Hispasat may have required an education in the satellite business but he was already very comfortable managing cross-border
The Audiencia Nacional Employment Chamber judgment of 25 February 2009 confirmed in Spain the legality of the dual scale of rights (mainly in relation to salary) regulated by the current CLH (Tierra) collective bargaining agreement.
The Spanish impatriate tax regime, enacted in 2004, also known as the ‘Beckham Law’ – as football player David Beckham was one of the first individuals to apply it – was amended with effect from January 1, 2010, despite pressure
