Angola privatisations – knowledge helps open up foreign investment
A new privatisation programme opening up in the African country is a big turning point and could lead to a diversified economy, but investors need to be aware of the risks involved
Portugal’s fight against the black market
Despite a recent survey suggesting channelisation in Portugal is moving in the right direction, one regulated operator wants the threat posed by unlicensed sites treated as a cyber crime. EGR Compliance puts the country’s online gambling market under the spotlight to investigate the extent of this scourge. Practically every regulated online gambling market faces unwanted […]
Whitening combat: Between stove and freezer
By Sofia Ribeiro Branco Law No. 83/2017 of 18 August, which establishes preventive and repressive measures to combat money laundering and terrorist financing, provides for the obligation to abstain from obliged entities (namely banking institutions) when they know or suspect that the operations may be associated with funds or other assets arising from or related […]
VdA contributes to the sports law encyclopedia
By João Medeiros, Carla Gonçalves Borges Sports Law is increasingly in Portugal, as in today’s world, unavoidable. Whether the public sports legal system or the regulations emanating from multiple organizations of the sports association movement, there are many rules applicable to the sports sector, with practical projection in the daily lives of many, from states […]
“Public policies and tax policy” article by Samuel Fernandes de Almeida
By Samuel Fernandes de Almeida The debate and policy around the next The state budget for 2020 has begun, as has the list of claims of the left parties of the Government, starting with more public investment, an increase in the national minimum wage or still unidentified in the tax system. What can already be […]
The police state of competition
By Ricardo Junqueiro Enforcement of competition rules is leading to the creation of a police state within another state, where everything is allowed to those who investigate and punish, and less and less to those who are investigated and defended. Adam Smith would be far from imagining that his late eighteenth-century realization that the free […]
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Finance lawyers dominate in FTSE350 in-house teams
Almost half of all the lawyers at the companies in the current FTSE350 that have a UK-based in-house legal team work in the banking and finance sector, The Lawyer can reveal. According to data compiled for the new FTSE350 report, 40 per cent of the lawyers tracked at in-house teams in the UK work for […]
The speed read: Clifford Chance’s canny graduate strategy; bye-bye Ballheimer; and 2020 predictions
Firms serious about bagging the best graduate talent should take a look at Clifford Chance A few years back, a bunch of firms set up events for first-year law undergraduates – a group long ignored on the milkround in favour of second and third-years. We predicted what seemed like the obvious conclusion: the war for […]
Shearman and King & Spalding lead on takeover of Eddie Stobart
A pair of US firms have advised on the takeover bid of haulage company Eddie Stobart as its shareholders have approved its rescue by asset manager DBAY Advisors. King & Spalding’s London corporate partners William Charnley and Marcus Young advised Eddie Stobart, which had to secure £55m bailout funding from Douglas Bay Advisors, on the […]
A&O and ENSafrica lead on South African Airways rescue
South African firm ENSafrica and Allen & Overy are leading on the business recovery of one of Africa’s largest airlines, South African Airways, saving it from collapse. ENSafrica’s chairman Michael Katz is leading for the airline on behalf of the National Treasury of South Africa, which manages its national economic policy. South African Airways is […]
Jones Day set to bid farewell to Russia with office closure
Jones Day is to shut its doors in Moscow, The Lawyer understands, after setting up in Russia 16 years ago. The decision means the US firm will no longer have a fixed presence in the country, with the closure expected later this year. Jones Day initially entered the Russian legal market back in 2003, with a total […]
Mayer Brown jumps on innovation bandwagon with new ’embrio’ programme
Mayer Brown’s managing partner Jeremy Clay is backing a new global innovation plan to trial new technologies.