Welcome to The Passport, your regular round-up of the most important stories to come from the European legal market. In this week’s edition, we take a look at the Warsaw firm doing succession right; why Norway’s Thommessen is managing lockstep carefully; and a big change takes place in the London office of an Iberian firm. […]
Do you have an idea in your mind for your firm’s perfect headcount size? The more lawyers you have under your roof, the more revenue you can generate. On the flip side, you’re also paying more salaries and the associated costs. That balancing act is never going away. Spain’s Uría Menéndez, however, can tell you […]
After years in the wilderness, the property markets of Spain and Portugal are undergoing a renaissance, creating new opportunities for lawyers
DLA Piper has announced plans to integrate Portuguese relationship firm ABBC after a six-year best friends relationship.
Garrigues partners have re-elected chairman Fernando Vives for a second five-year term at the helm of the firm.
Iberian firm Cuatrecasas Gonçalves Pereira has entered the Colombian market through an association with local firm Posse Herrera Ruiz.
Portuguese firm PLMJ has ended its exclusive relationship with China’s Dacheng, a year after the latter announced its landmark merger with Dentons.
“Insurance is a kind of promise: if everything goes south, I’ll be here,” Zurich Portugal general counsel Nuno Bastos claims. But insurers are taking the hit from unstable markets, an increase in regulation and unpredictable natural catastrophes and have to adapt. Quickly
Iberian firm Garrigues has continued its expansion across Latin America, bolting on Chilean firm Avendaño Merino. Avendaño Merino, which will now be known as Garrigues Chile, has a team of more than 20 lawyers. Five lawyers will become Garrigues partners; Oscar Ferrari, Luis Felipe Merino, José Miguel Rioseco, Luis Eduardo Correa and Rodrigo Fernández. The […]
Recovering Portugal is becoming a land of opportunity for Iberian firms seeking a cross-border pipeline of work
Luxembourg firm Arendt & Medernach, Germany’s GSK Stockmann & Kollegen and Italian firm Pavia e Ansaldo have all announced the launch of new offices in neighbouring European jurisdictions. Arendt opened a representative office in Paris at the start of the year, becoming the first Luxembourg firm to have a presence in the French capital. The […]
Spanish firm Gómez-Acebo & Pombo has posted a 2.03 per cent rise in revenue to €60.2m in 2015 following four successive years of decline. The firm posted a fourth year of decline in 2014 with a 2.8 per cent drop in revenue from €60.7m to €59m. Turnover fell from €61.9m in 2012 to €60.7m in […]