Europe/Portugal

The Global Legal Post launches international comparative guide to cryptoassets

Edited by Brown Rudnick partners Jane Colston and Jessica Lee, online resource outlines emerging legal frameworks for cryptoassets

Pérez-Llorca adds 17 lawyers from rivals for Lisbon launch

Six partners and their teams join from firms including Portugal’s RRP Advogados as Spanish heavyweight continues international expansion

Pérez-Llorca prepares Lisbon launch as international expansion continues

Leading Spanish firm follows up recent office openings in Brussels and Singapore with planned Lisbon launch next year

Skadden, Clifford Chance advise on Generali’s €2.3bn acquisition of Liberty Seguros

Cash deal sees Irish heavyweight Matheson and Portugal’s Morais Leitão also called in

  • 1yr

'If your dreams don't scare you, they are not big enough' - Europe's young lawyers mark association's 30th anniversary

Young lawyers and bar leaders commemorate the founding of the European Young Bar Association at Lisbon conference

Spain’s Cuatrecasas integrates with Portuguese firm SLCM in Lisbon

SLCM’s team will operate under the Cuatrecasas brand from January next year

Abreu unveils 'integration' of Porto firm ACRLEX

Four lawyers join Porto office in move that promises to hand Abreu membership of the Interlex network

DWF builds LatAm and Africa expansion potential with Iberian associations

Associations with Portuguese law firm and Spanish loss adjusting business follow 2019 acquisition of 40-partner Spanish law firm RCD

  • 2yrs

Top Portuguese M&A lawyer opens up over strategy dispute as he quits CS Associados for Vieira de Almeida

Francisco Sá Carneiro leaves the firm he helped found 12 years ago as it heralds 'a new cycle and generational transition'

Lawyers must embrace AI and stop seeing themselves as some sort of superhero

Vieira de Almeida's Paula Gomes Freire is optimistic about a future where machines drive business efficiency but humans stay in control

Linklaters names German regulatory lawyer as new Europe-wide managing partner

Frankfurt-based Andreas Steck to head up newly combined Western and Eastern Europe business

Linklaters expands D&I scholarship scheme across seven European offices

Roll out of programme designed to lower barriers to legal careers follows pilot at London headquarters

Littler enters 12th European country with Portugal tie-up

DCM Lawyers adds two offices to employment and labour law specialist's global network

Top tier Portuguese boutique CS Associados prepares for 'generational change' as co-founders bow out

Francisco Sá Carneiro and Fernando Campos Ferreira to leave CS Associados at the end of the year

Eversheds Sutherland joins forces with Portugal's FCB

Combination adds 70 lawyers and five locations, including two in Africa, to international firm's footprint

  • 3yrs

Portugal's Abreu Advogados shrugs off Covid-19 impact as revenue climbs to €33.6m

Revenue growth is 12% higher in 2020 than the previous 12 months pre-pandemic

  • 3yrs

Kennedys gets Portuguese boost

Firm grows presence in Portugal with merger of Lisbon boutique firm.

  • 4yrs

PLMJ lawyers depart for rival

Team moves round the top table of Portugese legal firms as PLMJ lawyers leave for Lisbon rival Abreu Advogados.

  • 4yrs

Dentons Lisbon-bound?

Dentons is believed to have been in talks with a number of law firms in Portugal, eyeing a possible new office in Lisbon.

  • 5yrs

Brexit and environment on the agenda in busy week for maritime lawyers

European Maritime lawyers meet in London Brexit, hot on the heels of IMO approving GHG programme and rejecting US last minute pitch.

  • 5yrs
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