In view of the upcoming and most important reform in the investment funds industry in the last 25 years, Cuatrecasas, Gonçalves Pereira held an Iberian conference today, with lawyers from its Lisbon and Madrid offices.

Experts in M&A transactions in the Iberian market attended the annual Iberian M&A and Private Equity Forum this morning at the Hotel Palace in Madrid, organized by Mergermarket and strategic partner Cuatrecasas, Gonçalves Pereira.

The president and the director of the Cuatrecasas International Institute for Legal Strategy on Human Resources, Salvador del Rey and Fernando Moreno respectively, held a meeting yesterday with a group of experts on labor information.

Experts from Cuatrecasas, Gonçalves Pereira met this morning to discuss intellectual property in China with business executives and clients interested in the Chinese market.

Cuatrecasas, Gonçalves Pereira’s managing director Rafael Fontana yesterday revealed that the firm had registered a turnover of €235 million in 2009.

Chairmen and managers of Spain’s leading brands discussed the importance of brand reputation yesterday, at a session held at the Cuatrecasas, Gonçalves Pereira office in Madrid and organized in conjunction with The Leading Brands of Spain Association.

Last week, Iberian Lawyer organized a talk, which was held at Cuatrecasas, Gonçalves Pereira, to enable the prominent litigation partners of the main law firms to discuss the current status of this practice area.

The London office recently hosted a seminar on investing in Latin America via Spain, attracting the interest of many clients. This was organized by Enric Picanyol, Sonia Velasco and Cristian Conejero.

Corresponsales europeos y latinoamericanos compararon el sistema de financiación autonómica española con de sus países de origen durante la última sesión del año del ciclo “Los Desayunos Jurídicos de Cuatrecasas, Gonçalves Pereira”.

Mr. Manuel Medina, a professor of constitutional law and director of the Democracy and Local Government Foundation will speak on the Autonomous Region Financing Act on Wednesday, December 16, at the recently inaugurated International Press Center.

Salvador del Rey and Fernando Moreno, chairman and president, respectively, of the Cuatrecasas International Institute for Legal Strategy on Human Resources, presented the launching of the institute in Seville.

AEMEC has formed the Aemec/Euroshareholders panel of judges at the Cuatrecasas, Gonçalves Pereira headquarters in Madrid, under the chair of Manuel Olivencia. It will grant annual awards in recognition of excellent relationships with minority shareholders

Cuatrecasas, Gonçalves Pereira released El Arbitraje Comercial Internacional en América Latina, a pioneer book on Latin American arbitration. The book contains comments on legislation and jurisprudence from the 21 jurisdictions making up Latin America.

Iberian Lawyer pays homage to the Cuatrecasas, Gonçalves Pereira ‘under Forty’.

Last week, Fide presented Gestión del Conocimiento en los Despachos de Abogados: Implantación y Práctica (Knowledge management in law firms: implementation and practice), the first book written in Spanish on this topic.

Cuatrecasas, Gonçalves Pereira helped promote the renewable energies industry on Tuesday, June 9, by organizing a workshop on the tax benefits of investing in these energies. It held the workshop at the European Future Energy Forum.

Some 10 journalists working for different Seville media outlets attended a course given by partners, Luis Olivencia and Francisco Ballester, and lawyer, José Luis Ballester, called “Creditors’ Meetings and Refinancing in the Ongoing Crisis.”

Twenty-four multinationals ans Spanish leading companies support the Cuatrecasas International Institute for Legal Strategy on Human Resources—an initiative aimed at finding innovative solutions for employers’ labor concerns.

Joanes Labayen explains the Basque Country’s economic pattern

Some 20 partners and over 30 newspaper journalists, including journalists from newspapers specializing in law and economics, attended the New Year cocktail afternoon, which Emilio Cuatrecasas traditionally holds every year for mass media professionals.

Ten foreign media correspondents based in Madrid attended a new session in the Los Desayunos Juríricos series last November 6. The session tackled Spain’s labor legislation on hiring and layoffs, a hot topic set against the backdrop of the ongoin crisis.

Cuatrecasas delivered a training course on the origins and developments of the financial collapse to journalists working for Grupo Prisa. More than 20 reporters from El País, Cinco Días, Cuatro, Ser and Prisa.com attended the seminar.

Pilar Cavero, the head of our labor department, advises Madrid bar association on pro-bono matters.

Cuatrecasas and ExpoZaragoza organized a day at the Conference Center of the exhibition on July 15, dedicated to analyzing water management. The event is part of the series of lessons called Los Desayunos Jurídicos Cuatrecasas.

70 reporters working at 12 different media outlets attended Cuatrecasas second course for journalists. Conferences dealt with current issues ranging from the morgage industry to the MiFID directive.

Emilio Cuatrecasas invited Chinese ambassador to Spain, Exmo Qiu Xiaoqi, to a dinner at Cuatrecasas on June 19.

On June 2, Cuatrecasas welcomed a group of French correspondents based in Madrid.