Renewables-related restructuring work and trade and export finance matters are creating significant opportunities for law firms, according to Clifford Chance partner José Guardo.

Bird & Bird partner Javier Fernández-Samaniego says there is a "great window of opportunity" for law firms in Cuba, while investors are also increasingly interested in the Pacific Alliance.

It is being reported that the Spanish authorities are bringing a criminal prosecution for suspected exports of military aircraft engines to Russia in breach of the EU's sanctions.

The considerably extended negotiations do not suggest that the eventual deal struck is likely to please all parties.

The Spanish Government has passed a Royal Decree temporarily suspending pre-allocation registration as well as abolishing financial incentives for new energy production projects from cogeneration, renewable energy sources and waste.

On 4th February 2005 the Spanish Tax Authorities submitted a new Plan for preventing Tax Fraud to the Government. This new Plan establishes specific measures for controlling specific imports from Asia, as well as fighting against the black market in trademark counterfeiting and the smuggling of CD and DVD recorders

The Spanish Supreme Court, on February 19th 2018, has issued a sentence confirming that Spanish Inheritance and Gifts Tax Law is against the free movement of capital stated...

No passado mês de junho foi publicada a lista oficial das indicações geográficas (IGs) da União Europeia (UE) e da China cuja protecção será considerada através de um acordo bilateral a concluir este mesmo ano.

In the various figures, projects or coordination processes relating European level to the Industrial and intellectual property undoubtedly the European Patent Effect Unit and the Unified Patent Court is expected to be much affected.

On 1 October 2004, the new Law 15/2003, of 25 November, came into force, reforming the Penal Code and introducing some important practical changes which will affect criminal protection of intellectual property rights.

1 July 2005 marked exactly one year since Council Regulation nº 1383/2003, came into force to replace Regulation (EC) nº 3295/94, concerning customs actions against goods suspected of infringing certain intellectual property rights and the measures to be taken against goods found to have infringed such rights.

In the various figures, projects or processes of coordination at European level concerning the Industrial and intellectual property, undoubtedly the Community Design and the Mark of the European Union will be one of the most affected figures.

After many years of negotiations, on 27 April 2016, the European Regulation concerning the protection of individuals in respect of the processing of personal data and the free movement of this data, has finally seen the light of day.

En el mes de junio se publicó el listado oficial de las indicaciones geográficas (IGs) de la Unión Europea (UE) y de China que serán protegidas mediante un acuerdo bilateral que se cerrará este mismo año

The European Commission has recently approved a proposal for a Directive and a proposal for a framework decision aimed at harmonizing the criminal measures that every member State uses to fight both counterfeiting and piracy.

Herbert Smith Freehills has helped secure an important victory for the Kingdom of Spain in a long-running investor-state arbitration concerning regulatory changes made by Spain in 2010 to the...

The decision recently delivered in the case Central Santa Lucia L.C. v. Meliá Hotels International S.A., brought before the First Instance Court of Palma de Mallorca, is one of the first rendered by a European court.

The Spanish Council of Ministers has approved a draft bill to amend the 2003 Spanish Arbitration Act, which will now be submitted for approval by the Spanish Parliament.

A new Spanish Arbitration Act was approved on December 23, 2003 and will come into force in March, 2004. The new Arbitration Act replaces the one previously in force, dating from 1988.

US law firms are benefiting from Iberian infrastructure and capital markets investment in both North America and Latin America...