Law firms need to embrace change, participants at a recent Iberian Lawyer forum heard, to look at their working practices and how they deliver their services
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Fee reductions alone are not enough to address concerns over service levels, says Mark Willis-Jones, Deputy General Counsel at Armstrong World Industries, Inc.
Iberian Lawyer research has seen some law firm leaders suggest that their firms will have to move away from a reliance on transactional-led practices towards more advisory-led work, as clients regulatory and compliance needs increase.
The ECJ’s ruling on the legitimacy of Gibraltar’s fiscal autonomy may help to dispel outdated perceptions of it as a ‘tax haven’ and move it further into the financial mainstream.
Gibraltar is finding itself at the forefront of the judicial interpretation of some of the key issues now emerging from the global economic crisis, say Joseph Triay and Robert Vasquez of Triay & Triay in
In order to counter the decline of Barcelona’s traditional heavy industry and manufacturing base, Iberian Lawyer’s Annual Report finds the city reinventing itself as an international research and development and technology centre to
The current business situation continues to present businesses with new opportunities but the emphasis on advisers must now be more than merely facilitating entries into new markets.
Iberia has clearly not proved immune to the global downturn in M&A, say lawyers, with transactional and private equity both significantly down. But while companies may not be expanding, many are restructuring and refinancing
Even in the midst of the current economic crisis, and fragility of many business sectors, with the right motivation deals can still be done, say Vanda Cascão and Sofia Barata of Vieira de Almeida (
Despite the collapse of highly leveraged private equity activity, start-up and venture capital investment remains active says Isabel Dutilh, managing partner of Dutilh Abogados in Madrid. But while investments rely much less on bank financing
