Spanish firm Cuatrecasas is set to share profits and create joint practice teams with the members of its Iberian alliance The alliance, CGMP, is developing common teams of lawyers working in M&A and tax. The firms will share almost 10 per cent of their combined profits. CGMP contains Cuatrecasas, Portuguese firm Gonçalves Pereira, Brazilian firm […]
The transposition of the European Union (EU) Rights of Establishment Directive into Portuguese law is delaying the opening of a number of offices, including a Uría & Menéndez office. On 20 July, the directive allowing EU firms to open in any EU country was transposed into Portuguese national law. Spanish firm Uría hopes to be […]
CUATRECASAS, the largest independent Spanish firm, has formed an alliance with firms in Portugal and South America, with the aim of merging to form the first Ibero-American law firm. The other partners in the alliance are Goncalves Pereira, Castelo Branco in Portugal, Machado, Meyer, Sendacz e Opice in Brazil, and Perez Alati, Grondona, Benites, and […]
An English barrister who has spent 18 months in a Portugese jail without trial has filed a suit with the European Court of Justice to try to change the country’s criminal code. Law professor David Lowry, a director of financial services company Paramount, was arrested in April 1997 when the Portuguese share authority raided the […]
Portugal’s attorney general, Cunha Rodrigues, is deciding whether to prosecute Ernst & Young, Price Waterhouse and Coopers & Lybrand over allegations that they advised on Portuguese law. Dr Soares Machado, president of the Lisbon Bar Association, said that the Bar had lodged a complaint against all three with Rodrigues. Two years ago, he said, Ernst […]
Leading Spanish firm Cuatrecasas and its Portuguese ally Goncalves Pereira Vinhas Castelo Branco e Associados have extended their exclusive working agreement to both a Buenos Aires and a Sao Paulo-based firm. The two firms are leading 60-lawyer Brazilian banking and finance practice Machado Meyer Sendacz e Opice Advogados and 50-lawyer Argentinian business law practice Perez […]
Leading Portuguese firm AM Pereira SAragga Leal Oliveira Martins has insisted that it has no plans to merge with Arthur Andersen but has admitted being in talks with the accountant’s captive Spanish law firm, Garrigues Andersen. The revelation follows Lisbon press reports that merger plans between AM Pereira and Andersens had fallen through after disagreements […]