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Cuatrecasas makes up 10 to partnership across five offices
Cuatrecasas Goncalves Pereira has announced its annual promotions, with 10 lawyers made up to the firm's partnership following last week's partners' conference. The promotions, which are spread across five of the firm's offices, mark a decrease on ...
28 Mar 2011 | 16:28 | 
Magic circle duo line up on Qatar Holding's €2.1bn Iberdrola deal
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, Allen & Overy (A&O) and Uria Menendez have all taken roles on Qatar Holding's €2.1bn (£1.8bn) investment in Spanish utility company Iberdrola. Freshfields acted for Qatar Holdings, fielding a London team led by co...
16 Mar 2011 | 16:01 |
A&O hires Uria Menendez investment funds head for Madrid office
Allen & Overy (A&O) has bulked up its Madrid office with the hire of Uria Menendez's investment funds head Salvador Ruiz Bachs. Ruiz Bachs is set to join the firm in the coming weeks from the Madrid arm of Uria, where he has been of counsel since 2...
16 Mar 2011 | 14:53 |
Watson Farley launches Madrid tax practice with PwC partner hire
Watson Farley & Williams is to launch a tax practice in Madrid with the hire of a partner from Landwell PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) Tax & Legal Services in Spain. Luis Soto is set to join the Madrid arm of Watson Farley next week, when he will bec...
10 Mar 2011 | 17:28 |
Iberia
Toby Lewis looks at Iberian firms' foreign ambitions while Uria Menendez reports on the future of the Spanish savings bank
10 Mar 2011 | 14:24 |
Foreign Exchange
With markets in their local jurisdictions depressed, many Iberian firms are looking for new frontiers, writes Toby Lewis
09 Mar 2011 | 11:19 |
The weak link
Five out of seven failing banks identified by the European stress tests in 2010 were Spanish savings banks. Rafael Nunez-Lagos reports on their future
09 Mar 2011 | 11:19 |
Kennedys seals merger deal with Portuguese alliance firm
Kennedys has merged with its Portuguese alliance partner Almeida & Athayde as the fast-growing UK firm continues its international expansion. The merger went live today (1 March) following a six-year relationship between the two firms.
01 Mar 2011 | 19:10 |
Garrigues appoints new head of London office
Garrigues has appointed a new London managing partner to succeed the outgoing Guillermo Munoz-Alonso. Ignacio Corbera Dale has been appointed to the role, effective 1 February, and has relocated to London from the firm's Barcelona office. The ap...
18 Feb 2011 | 12:29 |
Uria announces 3% revenue rise for 2010
Uria Menendez has posted a 3% rise in turnover for the last financial year, becoming the last of the Spanish big four law firms to issue its 2010 results. Turnover climbed to €186.5m (£156.9m) over the year, up from €181m (£152.2m) in 2009. T...
15 Feb 2011 | 12:58 |
Eversheds' Spanish alliance firm to split from international network
Eversheds' Spanish alliance partner is set to break away from the firm's international network, citing differing strategies as the reason for the move. Eversheds Lupicinio will split from Eversheds International later this year after six years as a...
14 Feb 2011 | 17:27 |
BA shakes up in-house team as Iberia merger goes live
British Airways (BA) has reshuffled its in-house legal team in the wake of its merger with Spanish airline Iberia, which went live last month (24 January), and its protracted cabin crew dispute. BA general counsel Maria da Cunha, who previously hel...
08 Feb 2011 | 07:22 |
Olswang opens in Paris with partner hires from Dechert and local firm
Olswang is launching an office in Paris with the hire of Dechert's local banking and finance head, as well as bulking up in Madrid with a double partner hire from Bird & Bird. The firm is set to launch in Paris in the coming weeks after hiring Step...
02 Feb 2011 | 15:19 |
Spain’s Gomez Acebo unveils financials and partner shake-up
Spanish independent Gomez Acebo & Pombo has posted a 2% increase in turnover during 2010, with the firm also announcing its new partner promotions and ditching its pure lockstep remuneration structure for partners. Revenue for the 2010 financial ye...
02 Feb 2011 | 10:55 |
Olswang hires partner for Spanish employment team launch
Olswang has launched an employment practice in Madrid with the hire of Bird & Bird employment partner Daniel Cifuentes. Cifuentes joined Olswang's Madrid arm at the end of December to establish and head Olswang's Spanish employment practice. Bird &...
01 Feb 2011 | 07:58 |
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