Gómez-Acebo & Pombo is a law firm in transition. Recent years have seen Spain’s fourth largest firm undergo radical change as it seeks to re-stake its claim to be among the country’s pre-eminent
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Spanish and Portuguese lawyers take a mixed view as to whether Iberia’s transactional markets are coming back to life. Deal volumes remain depressed, as do values, and financing and liquidity concerns continue to complicate
Barcelona is a city of many facets. Internationally, a growing number of investors consider it a focus for research, design and the creative industries, with Catalonia a perennial tourist favourite. From a domestic point of
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
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
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
The State aid question is clearly now highly relevant to companies, believes José Luis Buendía, Head of Garrigues’ Brussels office.
The issues being presented by clients to Iberia’s restructuring and insolvency lawyers remain consistent, but as the financial crisis evolves their relative weight in the equation might have changed, say many. Significant also has
The re-election of the Socialist government in Portugal appears to have given the green light for the major public infrastructure programmes that many believe will help revitalise the Portuguese economy. But the start of the
As we draw to the end of one of the most challenging years for law firms and their clients in recent history, what are your thoughts on what 2010 will bring? Will the 'difficult 2009' be followed
