Successful professional people are notoriously reluctant to take on the mantle of leadership. Increasingly, there are excellent reasons why they should, say Professor Laura Empson and David Morley ‘If you always do what you’ve always done, you’ll always get what you’ve always got.’ It’s a phrase that carries a useful message in the context of …
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Traditional leadership models suggest people hanker for a hero in time of crisis. That’s an unfamiliar and uncomfortable role for law firm leaders say Professor Laura Empson and David Morley What do people look for in their leaders when crisis strikes – especially one as profoundly disconcerting, enduring and uncertain as the current Covid-19 pandemic?
In March last year – as the Covid-19 crisis gathered pace – I wrote in Legal Business that if you’re a leader when an emergency happens, you need to act like one. I added that, as the leader, you are also communicator-in-chief. Talking to leaders over the last few months, it’s striking how acting like a …
Insolvency and restructuring proceedings are intricate and complex. Practitioners must be able to combine legal knowledge, in particular in the areas of litigation, finance and transactions, with strategic, tactical and managerial skills to deliver positive results. Prager Dreifuss has extensive experience and a longstanding tradition in insolvency and restructuring matters. In the wake of the …
In 2019, our article in Legal Business ended as follows: ‘Therefore, with the benefits of a renewed legal and regulatory framework and of an environment where low interest rates facilitate access to funding, 2020 is likely to follow in line with the current year, promising continued intense activity and diversity’. In January 2020, VdA organised …
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The effects of the pandemic on Portuguese businesses are not uniform. We can find sectors that have shown some resilience and a capacity to explore the opportunities that have materialised despite everything. Operations that were started before the pandemic are being concluded, such as the purchase of PRISA’s share in the media group Media Capital …
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When considering key trends and developments in the legal sector in 2020, it is impossible to ignore the global Covid-19 pandemic and its impact on working practices around the world. The BVI has risen to these challenges thanks to its modern and flexible legal framework and proactive adoption of innovative new technology including virtual hearings …
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Renewable has been the star sector in the Spanish energy market during the last years. The country weather conditions, the existence of a relevant experienced industry, the availability of financing, the support of the public administration and the recent policies have resulted in a very successful cocktail, permitting a significant development of renewable technologies making …
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In these turbulent times we are experiencing in the workplace, with a constantly changing legislative framework, the Spanish legal landscape was recently altered by the judgment handed down on 11 January 2020 by the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU), on collective redundancies (case C-300/19). Whereas, just before the summer, news was appearing …
Many of us were caught in the making of transactions when the Covid-19 outbreak started or, at least, hit Europe causing a complete shutdown in many countries or started them while confined at home experiencing the sudden and unexpected demise of the economy. While assessing the business impacts of the pandemic in ongoing transactions and …
