The Legal 500

Legal Developments in Portugal

• M&A Revival: taking off The corporate insolvency processes connection

  2009 focus and aims
  - Cameira Law

• JOINT SESSION OF THE BANKING, CORPORATE AND M&A COMMISSION

  CORPORATE GOVERNANCE IN PRACTICE
  - Cameira Law

• JOINT WORKING SESSION OF THE M&A COMMISSION AND THE COMPETITION COMMISSION

  ACQUIRING REGULATED BUSINESSES: MERGERS AND ACQUISITIONS AND COMPETITION LAW PERSPECTIVES
  - Cameira Law

• Exercising Stock Options

  Exercising Stock Options…....1 Summary of recently enacted Legislation……………………3 Case Law ……………………..6 News in brief………………... 9
  - Cameira Law

• Amsterdam, the place to settle

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  - Russell Advocaten

• PUT & CALL OPTIONS OVER SHARES: ADVANTAGES AND PITFALLS

  Are put and call options expressly regulated in your legal system or do they fall under general contract law?
  - Cameira Law

• New Immigration Law

  The expansion of the oil and gas industry in Equatorial Guinea ("EG") has caused a significant increase in immigration, not just of qualified workers, but also of a substantial number of unskilled , and often illegal, immigrants, especially from the neighbour countries.
  - Miranda Correia Amendoeira & Associados

• Production Sharing Agreements: The New Contractual Paradigm for the Brazilian Oil Industry

  Despite a few setbacks on the way and the protracted discussions, the congress has finally approved Law 12.351/2010, of 22 December 2010, thereby replacing the old oil concession inplace in Brazil by a new set of contractual standards.
  - Miranda Correia Amendoeira & Associados

• New Building Permits Building Regime

  A New Building Permits Legal Regime was recently enacted in Cape Werde by way of Decree-Law 19/2011, of 28 February 2011.
  - Miranda Correia Amendoeira & Associados

• Tax incentives in the 2011 Budget

  As in past years, the 2011 Budget of the Macao Special Administrative Region (OR/2011) provided for various Tax exemptions, including for industrial tax and stamp duty, and deductions for professional tax (on work related income), urban property tax and complimentary income (on industrial and commercial income).
  - Miranda Correia Amendoeira & Associados