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Train to gain

Portuguese law firm GPA is growing rapidly with managing partner Sofia Gouveia Pereira attributing its success, in part, to a willingness to invest in training

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Aiming high

Spanish law firm Ecija has completed mergers with 11 law firms in the last two years as it pursues its goal of being the leading ‘Spanish and Portuguese-speaking’ law firm – while this could be seen as

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Attracting investors

Private equity funds have a growing appetite for deals in Spain and Portugal, Jorge Viera Landaluce, managing partner of Rainforest Dunas Capital, explains what assets funds are targeting and the latest trends regarding how deals

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Battle-hardened

When Hogan Lovells opened in Madrid 15 years ago, some market observers believed they were making their move too late, but today the firm’s Spanish operation boasts more than 100 lawyers – Madrid managing partner Lucas Osorio

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Football crazy

Iberia is home to some of the biggest professional football clubs in the world and consequently, the sports industry is generating significant work for the region’s law firms

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Building bridges

In his role as general counsel at Total and president of ECLA, Jonathan Marsh (pictured) will be paying much closer attention to Spain and Portugal in the near future – the creation of Iberian law firm

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Expanding workload

Banco Credibom’s Lisbon-based head of legal Duarte Gomes Pereira says his team is having to deal with a growing amount of regulatory work in recent years – consequently, he is often on the lookout for

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Passing the baton

At the end of this year, PLMJ founding partner José Miguel Júdice will leave the firm he founded more than 40 years ago after making an acquaintance in a Portuguese prison cell – here he talks