Female Litigation Lawyers: The Present-day Action Heroes?
This year, the International Bar Association (IBA) has launched a global survey to investigate why female lawyers leave law firms31/08/2017
The application of tax treaties to collective investment vehicles: The Portuguese case
The purpose of this article is to make a brief summary of the problems and issues regarding the application of conventions to avoid double taxation to collective investment vehicles, and then to summarize the solution recently (2015) adopted by the Portuguese legislator to address such issues in an...03/07/2017
White-collar crime in Portugal: risks and challenges
With an economy that is still fragile and trying to define the right way out of the financial crisis that led to the intervention of the IMF/European Commission in the middle of 2011, any analysis of white-collar crime in Portugal is dominated by the investigations relating to the main financial...15/03/2016
Focus on the Angolan power sector – Investment in capacity building, efficiency and steps towards liberalisation
2015 brought a revision of the Angolan power sector law (PSL), which followed a 2014 reorganization of the attributions of its major stakeholders (all state owned enterprises (SOE)), most of which had ambitiously been forecasted in the 2011 National Energy Policy and Security of Supply Strategy...26/01/2016
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