It is vital that clients investing in Africa get high quality compliance advice or they could run the risk of senior executives going to prison if they breach regulations, attendees at the Legal Community Week
In-house lawyers should make the maximum effort to understand the business they work for as this will enable them to communicate better with the other members of the business, according to Luis F. Lozano Olivares,
Clifford Chance advised Partners Group on the acquisition of a portfolio of 15 Spanish companies – owning 32 real estate assets – from Meridia Iberian Real Estate.
Herbert Smith Freehills advised Nazca Capital on the €45 million acquisition of Spanish biopharma company Diater.
KPMG Abogados has promoted Francisco Fernández and Esteban Guitián to partners.
Ecija is to incorporate 14-lawyer Madrid firm Jiménez de Parga.
Linklaters advised PFE Spain Megapark, a subsidiary of UBS, on the acquisition of a commercial building in San Sebastián de los Reyes, Madrid.
Madrid law firm Thomás de Carranza Abogados has hired María Gomes Sousa to head the firm’s labour law department.
The Barcelona Bar Association (ICAB) has launched a quality standard certificate for law firms that, among its indicators, includes an evaluation of how effectively equality policies have been implemented.
Madrid-based Accuracy partner Laura Cózar will be among the speakers at the Legal Community Week event, which will be held in Milan next week.
