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
The question of whether an employer can run background checks and require medical examinations from job applicants has been an issue in Portugal for some time. It becomes even more complex when we need to
Recent headlines may have highlighted dissatisfaction by some Latin American countries with certain investment arbitration processes, but this does not mean the end of arbitration in the region, insists Pedro J. Martinez-Fraga, Miami-based coordinator of
Each business dispute may be different but following best practices can help to make a litigation or arbitration run more efficiently, says Ignacio DÃez-Picazo, dispute resolution partner at Herbert Smith in Madrid
The Portuguese courts may have already been running at over-capacity before the onset of the financial downturn, but efforts are at least now being made to make litigation more efficient, and to encourage alternative dispute
