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Regulation with teeth: Iberia's competition revolution |
Competition lawyers across
Iberia agree that the financial
crisis has had a clear impact on
the type of work they are now
seeing, but equally significant
has been the increasing
confidence and remit of
national competition
authorities. Consequently, the
full impact of new competition
laws and implementation of
new tools in both Spain and
Portugal are only really now
being felt, they say.
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Temperatures rising: the dispute management challenge |
Iberia’s lawyers report that
the financial crisis is clearly
having an impact on the
nature and volume of
disputes now being seen.
The downturn is bringing
more business pressures
and commercial relations are
under greater strain. That
said clear challenges face
parties in dispute, say
experts. For cross-border
and international conflicts,
businesses continue to
prefer the neutrality of
arbitration. Domestically
however, many of the same
businesses prefer the courts.
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While Iberia´s major law firms
are still reporting “business
as usual” it seems that
significant structural changes
are happening, if perhaps
behind the scenes.
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The European Commission has played a vital role in helping mitigate the impact of the
financial crisis, say lawyers in Brussels, but issues continue to emerge and procedural
flexibility can only help so much |
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Maintaining the red lines in European competition policy |
The past 18 months have seen unprecedented pressures placed on the European economy bringing to the forefront role of the European
Commission (EC), says Nadia Calviño, Deputy Director General for Mergers and Antitrust in the European Commission
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A marriage of convenience |
The start of May will see
UK-based Lovells and
Hogan & Hartson of the US
merge to create Hogan
Lovells, one of the top ten
largest law firms in the
world by both size and
revenue. The tie-up,
perceived widely in the
legal sector as the first
transatlantic "merger of
equals" rather than a
merger of necessity is, say
both firms, a progressive
response to the changing
market and needs of
multinational clients. |
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