Field Fisher Waterhouse (FFW) is set to secure a long-awaited Spanish member for its European Legal Alliance after entering a trial association in December with Barcelona-based firm Jimenez De Parga

The 50-lawyer Spanish firm, which specialises in IT, competition and administrative law, entered into the three-month trial with FFW’s European Legal Alliance in December, after forging close links with German member Buse Heberer Fromm over a number of years.