Protecting Foreign Direct Investment Making an investment into another state, known as foreign direct investment (“FDI”), generally carries a significantly different risk profile to investment in an investor’s domestic...
How could the independent law firms of the Libralex network work together in approaching Single (SFO) and Multi (MFO) Family Offices? What do these offices need and in particular, what do the underlying clients need in form of legal services? Can Libralex present some...
I. Scope of Application In order to attract foreign investment into Portugal and to help in the economical recovery, the Portuguese Government has created a regime for the granting of so-called “golden visas” to citizens of third countries, thatwish to...
Several unions in the air transport sector have decided to organize and carry out a workers strike to oppose recent government measures. Such workers strike was to include the non-performance of several daily tasks required to maintain all air services within the main...
The Italian government (still) hopes to prevent people from starting never-ending legal proceedings (in 2012, almost five million civil proceedings were still pending) and has enforced a new decree (DL n.132/2014 of 12th of September 2014), with the aim to increase...
These sample clauses are intended for use in the United Kingdom and internationally and ADR Group endeavours to keep them current with developments in United Kingdom legislation and case law as well as European Union directives and regulations. Alternative clauses for...
A Peaceful New Year? The EU is planning 2015 will bring peace to businesses and consumers they deal with. This is in the shape of new laws that will come into effect on 9 July 2015 . This can only be good news – it is estimated that in 2012 out of 6.4...
ADR methods, such as mediation and arbitration, are increasingly becoming the method of choice of parties in dispute. Quicker, cheaper, and more flexible as to the outcome than the courts, many clients are choosing these routes over litigation. In the international...
The publication contains a collection of articles describing the current state of the law in Europe and in the United States regarding class actions and other procedural tools for collective litigation. The majority of the articles have been written...
