Practice areas

Main areas of intervention:

• Legal counselling in incorporation, mergers and acquisitions and company restructuring.
• Drafting of Shareholders Agreements.
• Legal counselling of General Meetings and Board of Directors meetings
• Legal counselling in partnerships, joint-ventures and multiple cooperation agreements.
• Drafting of Corporate Governance strategies.

Main areas of intervention:

• Legal counselling in the companies’ day-to-day labour issues, including drafting of work contracts, confidentiality and exclusivity agreements, contract termination agreements, termination of fixed-term contracts, disciplinary procedures, labour restructuring procedures and collective redundancies.
• Legal counselling and support in other HR issues such as work time schedule management, place of work issues, training, parenting, holidays, absence from work, supplementary work, compensation and corresponding payment processing and collective employment contracts.

Main areas of intervention:

• Legal counselling and consulting in the preparation and conclusion of the most diverse types of contracts, including distribution agreements, agency contracts and franchising contracts.
• Legal counselling in all matters related to contract execution, including individual restrictive trade practices, competition, at-distance and off-premises contracting, in addition to all due requirements related to any commercial activity.
• Legal counselling to credit intermediation as well as procedure implementation vis-à-vis all due requirements related to money laundering and terrorist financing.
• Company compliance support, including prevention and audits to ensure that the best commercial practices are in force.

Main areas of intervention:

• Legal counselling and consulting in contractual and extra-contractual civil liability, consumer law (including contract general clauses) and protection of personal data, including the preparation and review of policies and all due documentation related to privacy compliance.
• Legal counselling and consulting in family and succession law, namely divorce proceedings, custody, asset inventory and division, and succession planning.

Main areas of intervention:

• Legal counselling and consulting in property purchase and sale, from the project phase to the preparation and conclusion of purchase and sale contracts, including financing and guarantee provision, namely mortgages. Execution of all due proceedings related to the Portuguese Tax Authorities, Real Estate Registry and notaries.
• Condominium constitution.
• Legal counselling and consulting in the preparation, celebration, execution and termination of work contracts, including Engineering, Procurement and Construction Agreements and Consortium Agreements.
• Consulting in technical service provision contracts (architecture, engineering, Project Management and site supervision).
• Legal counselling in rental agreements for habitational and non-habitational purposes and of retail stores in shopping malls.
• Legal counselling and consulting in urban, touristic and commercial licensing and in the celebration of urban planning contracts.
• Consulting in the acquisition of real estate companies.

Main areas of intervention:

• Broad experience in litigation (civil, environmental, labour, maritime, urban and commercial activity liabilities) as well as national and international arbitration.

Main areas of intervention:

• Consulting in operations for the disposal and acquisition of financial assets.
• Counselling in investment services regulatory and compliance matters
• Consulting in the structuring and creation of collective investment undertakings, in securities, real estate or venture capital areas.
• Many years of experience in issues related to regulation and supervision of financial institutions, in particular of fund management companies, as well as on the preparation of the respective procedure manuals.
• Broad experience in transaction consulting, with the participation of collective investment bodies.

Main areas of intervention:

• Licensing, aeronautical certifications
• Aeronautical penalties
• Passenger rights