Cuatrecasas mobilises taskforce to aid country’s savings banks
Spanish law firm Cuatrecasas Gonçalves Pereira has launched a multidisciplinary team to specifically advise the country’s troubled savings banks.
Garrigues out of sight of rivals as Spanish sector starts to feel the economic pinch
The Spanish legal market grew by 11 per cent during 2008, but the economic downturn has slowed its growth, which stood at 16 per cent in 2007. Juan Carlos Machuca Relatively high rates of growth were experienced at the largest Spanish firm Garrigues, which increased turnover by 15 per cent, from e258.6m (£223.4m) in 2007 […]
Spain: Green with energy
Spain has led the way in renewable energy, but the financial crisis coupled with regulatory change is having an impact. Will Spain’s ‘green’ commitment hold firm? asks Luke McLeod-Roberts One of the more romantic images of Spain is the figure of Don Quixote astride a trusty steed against a backdrop of windmills bleached by the […]
Herbies bags Links trio for Madrid launch
Herbert Smith has pounced on the Madrid office of Linklaters for three partners to open an office in the city. The firm has brought four Spanish lawyers in total into its partnership for the launch. They include former Linklaters M&A and restructuring partner Alvaro Sainz and Miguel Riaño, an energy and infrastructure specialist. The hires […]
Dewey City partner sets up new office in Madrid
Dewey & LeBoeuf is preparing to launch a Madrid office, with a London partner spearheading the initiative. Dewey & LeBoeuf is preparing to launch a Madrid office, with a London partner spearheading the initiative. Berge Setrakian, who currently divides his time between London and New York, was in the Spanish city along with New York and Paris partner Margaret Civetta to […]
DLA boosts Madrid with Roca Junyent hires
DLA Piper Madrid has hired a restructuring team from independent Spanish firm Roca Junyent. Insolvency expert Javier Díaz-Gálvez, and economist Luis Martin both join DLA Piper as partners in its Madrid restructuring group. The two partners are joined by a team of 11 lawyers and economists. Díaz-Gálvez specialises in insolvency and restructuring, advising international and […]
Cuatrecasas advises on part privatisation of Spanish airport operator
Spanish firm Cuatrecasas Gonçalves Pereira has picked up a prized instruction from the country’s airports operator on its partial privatisation. State airport owner and manager Aeropuertos Españoles y Navegación Aérea (Aena) announced this week that Cuatrecasas had won the €699,000 (£621,780) contract, which went out to tender earlier this year. Almost every firm in Spain […]
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Spain’s Gómez-Acebo & Pombo mourns death of two partners
Spanish firm Gómez-Acebo & Pombo is mourning the death of two of its partners within a week. The firm has announced that its head of real estate Victoria Llavero passed away on 20 March while honorary president and co-founder Ignacio Gómez-Acebo Duque de Estrada died at the weekend. Llavero died aged just 55 from injuries […]
WFW launches Spanish tax practice with PwC hire
Watson Farley & Williams (WFW) has launched a tax practice in Spain after hiring a lawyer from PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC). Luis Soto joins WFW’s Madrid office, which opened in 2009, from Landwell PriceWaterhouseCoopers Tax & Legal Services after 15 years at the firm. He joins as a partner in the international tax group. Soto is a […]
Portugal’s Sérvulo & Associados opts for sole managing partner
Portuguese independent Sérvulo & Associados has voted through a transition to a single managing partner model, with Pedro Furtado Martins taking up the new role. Furtado Martins will chair the firm’s executive board, which also includes partners Ricardo Guimarães and João Saúde. The role of managing partner was previously shared by Rui Medeiros and Fernando […]
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Kennedys launches in Portugal via merger with alliance firm
Kennedys has merged with its Portugal-based associate office Almeida & Athayde to launch Kennedys Portugal. Founding partners Paulo Cruz Almeida and Augusto de Albuquerque de Athayde will join the firm with three assistants. Senior partner Nick Thomas said: “In making this move, Kennedys is consolidating its footprint in the Iberian peninsula and using this as […]
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SNR Denton seals alliance with Portuguese firm, adds 10 firms to Africa network
SNR Denton has added 10 firms to its Africa network, bringing its total number of tie-ups in the continent to 21. Five of the 10 new firms have been brought into the network as part of SNR Denton’s new alliance with Portuguese firm F Castelo Branco & Associados Sociedade de Advogados. The Portuguese firm has […]