The access and exercise of the activity of insurance and reinsurance is regulated by a new legal regime, approved by Law 7/2019 of 16 January, which transposes into the Portuguese law the Insurance Distribution Directive - Directive (EU) 2016/97.

Although the said Law has introduced significant changes to the previous regime, the essence of the preceding legal framework is preserved, namely its structure and the underlying principles, and the diploma seeks to ensure regulatory stability in all matters and provisions that are not based in the European Union regime.

 

 

 

 

Analysis of the EU proposal to tighten border controls intended to check the obligation of cars to drive around with compulsory civil liability insurance and its alignment with the freedom of movement decreed in Schengen.

 

 

 

On 5 December last year, the new Organic Law on Data Protection and digital rights safeguard was published on the BOE (Spanish Official Gazette). It governs the new working rights in the area of the protection of personal data.

 

 

 

The second edition of start-up Portugal gives new momentum to the National Entrepreneurship Strategy, focusing on three main axes: supporting the ecosystem; attracting investment and improving funding; and promoting the internationalisation of Portuguese start-ups.

 

 

 

Due to the increase in activity of the real estate market in Portugal, Belzuz Abogados, that has been actively present in the country for the last 20 years, engaged Paula Henriques Lourenço as Head of the Real Estate Department in Lisbon.

Paula has developed her career in the area of Real Estate in various law firms for more than thirteen years and has a wide experience in providing legal advice and monitoring complex real estate transactions and projects, including the purchase and sale of developments and the setting up of financing structures.

The new Head of the Real Estate Department has a wide academic curriculum, with a law degree from the University of Lisbon and Post Graduation in Corporate Law and Management from the New University of Lisbon, as well as attendance in several courses and seminars of her expertise.

As referred by Enrique Belzuz, Managing Partner of Belzuz Abogados, “Paula is joining our firm to strengthen a key-department in our office in Portugal, which is in full growth and has been involved in important corporate and real estate transactions, such as hotels, tourism developments and local lodging – and both residential and commercial deals”.