Contents
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Company & Corporate
annual report
Price war
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Sport annual report
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Corporate lawyers in Spain facing pressure on fees 31
Pedro Rueda
Araoz & Rueda
In the money
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Portuguese online gambling market opening
up to foreign operators
António Mendes de Almeida
Vieira de Almeida
48
M&A activity set to increase, but profitability
remains a challenge
Carlos Blanco
Roca Junyent
32
Sport sector clients increasingly looking for
specialist lawyers
Roberto Vallina Hoset
Roca Junyent
49
Bank restructuring creating liquidity in M&A
market
Sharon Izaguirre
Deloitte Legal
32
New TV deal leads to soaring demand for
legal services among Spanish football clubs
Ignacio Legido
BDO Abogados
49
Growth in Portuguese real estate M&A
driving client demand for fixed fees
José Diogo Horta Osório
Cuatrecasas, Gonçalves Pereira
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Guide to leading lawyers
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M&A activity on the increase in Portugal but
downward pressure on fees persists
Jorge Bleck
Vieira de Almeida
33
Corporate divestment in Portugal creating
opportunities for lawyers
Maria João Ribeiro Mata
PLMJ
34
Businesses in Portugal ‘should consider
merging to boost competitiveness’
Alexandre Jardim
pbbr
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Special focus: Employment
Starting to blossom
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Asking employers to record staff working hours
is unfeasible due to flexitime and teleworking
Aurora Sanz
Grant Thornton
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Increase in M&A deals creating jobs in Spain
Sergio Ponce
Uría Menéndez
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International investors, including private
equity funds, driving demand for legal advice
in Portugal
Nuno Azevedo Neves
ABBC
35
Companies outsourcing activities in
Portugal face new liabilities
Maria da Glória Leitão
Cuatrecasas, Gonçalves Pereira
55
Portuguese real estate, energy and technology
sectors have potential for deal activity
Pedro Guimarães
FCB Sociedade de Advogados
35
More Portuguese companies ‘insourcing’
employment law matters
Tiago Piló
Vieira de Almeida
55
Portuguese healthcare M&A on the rise
José Maria Corrêa de Sampaio
Inês Sequeira Mendes
Abreu Advogados
36
New labour laws could set finishing time for
working day and enable homeworking
Carmen Galán
Lener
56
Banks’ increased reluctance to lend will create
market for new financing products
Javier Gomez Dominguez
PwC Legal
37
More labour reform needed in Portugal to
help businesses recover from the crisis
Inês Albuquerque e Castro
FCB Sociedade de Advogados
56
Lawyers need in-depth industry knowledge to
add value for clients
Nieves Briz
Jausas
37
Portuguese M&A resurgence
boosting
Benjamim Mendes
ABBC
Guide to leading lawyers
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