Crimes against property (theft, fraud, extortion, cheating, breach of trust)
Crimes against persons (bodily injury, medical malpractice)
Drug trafficking
Money laundering, corruption, embezzlement, abuse of power
Tax evasion and tax offenses
Financial Crimes for violation of disciplinary rules of the market activity, whether imposed by the Securities Code, whether the regulatory activity of the market (CMVM or the Bank of Portugal)
Proceedings with respect to violations of Intellectual Property
Corporate Litigation
Disputes/suspension of corporate decisions – Disputes/suspension Board of Directors’ resolutions
Directors’ and Officers’ Liability (Managers/Directors/Supervisory Board)
Appointment and removal of corporate boards holders/legal notices/processes relating to the share capital
Protection of minority shareholders
Failure of distribution agreements and agency of its indemnity claims
Tax Litigation
Permanent tax advisory companies, local authorities, associations and their services
Consulting and tax optimization of restructuring and internationalization operations
Tax Consultancy in international taxation headquarters
Tax Litigation
Tax misdemeanours
Drawing up of legal advice
Advice in criminal tax litigation
Public Procurement
Monitoring of public entities in choosing the type of procedure to be followed
Preparation of procedure parts (competition programs, specifications, etc.)
Monitoring of the entire course of the procedure, including proposals for negotiating sessions
Assistance in the preparation of proposals and challenging procedural acts
Corporate Governance
Records and authorizations for the protection of personal data
Harassment Prevention at work
Compliance with corporate governance rules
Administrative
Administrative Litigation in various areas
Public Procurement in general
Public Works Contracts
Urbanism
Banking and Financial
Advice within the institutional banking law (regulation and banking supervision)
Assistance of corporate and regulatory aspects related to the activity of these institutions and financial products in the corporate finance area
Preparation, negotiation and formalisation of bank contracts of a different nature, namely financing contracts, leases and factoring
Credit Restructuring
Commercial
Company formation
Mergers
Acquisitions
Demergers
Transformations
Transmissions of shareholdings, businesses or assets
Group Restructuring
Corporate finance
Constitutional
Protection of rights, freedoms and constitutional guarantees
Concrete Supervision of Constitutionality
Family, Juvenile and Succession
Litigious Divorce
Divorceby mutual consent
Regulationof parental responsibility
Divisions of inheritances
Health and Pharmaceutical
Introduction of authorisation of the reference medicinal products and generic medicines
Import and export of drugs
State Reimbursement in the price of drug
Licensing distribution authorisation holders entities wholesale drugs
Licensing of pharmacies, including their transfer
Conducting clinical trials
Misdemeanor proceedings brought by regulators.
Environmental
Adaptation of the organizations rules and legal requirements for environmental projects
Analysis and management of legal risks
Analysis and formatting carbon sequestration projects ( the Kyoto Protocol and the Clean Development Mechanism)
Environmental Impact Ratings
Licensing of economic activities and emission of effluents, waste management, health and safety
Environmental offense Processes
Obtaining titles of use in the public domain
Consumer
Fundamental rights and consumer protection
Debt and consumer in debtedness
Advertising
Quality and product safety
Employment
Negotiating collective and individual labour contracts
Termination of trading of individual employment contracts
Support for human resource departments in companies
Preparation of legal opinions on labour, individual or collective situations
Preparation of inquiries and disciplinary procedures
Emerging Equity industrial accidents and occupational diseases
Offences labour
Advising on the acquisition and merger of companies and corporate restructuring
Urban Planning
Land-use planning: spatial plans and projects of national interest
Planning
Development Planning: detailed plans
Analysis of urban soils
Control and monitoring of administrative processes of urban transformation
Verification o permits and licenses
Analysis of compliance with the requirements of the relevant sectorallegislation
Checking for restoring legality of procedures or punishment
Insurance
Insurance contracts
Regulation and supervision
Corporate operations: bancassurance alliances; mergers, demergers and acquisitions of insurance and reinsurance undertakings, and domestic and international operations of assignment of insurance portfolios
Mediation of insurance and reinsurance
Plans and pension funds
Tax
Consultancy in various taxes, planning application to legal and natural persons of legal savings mechanisms
International Tax Planning
Tax planning, particularly in the VAT, IRC, customs fees and stamp duty
Tax Litigation in variousareas
Real Estate
Assistance to developers, builders and real estate agents in the various stages of the projects, drafting of works and supply contracts, pledge contracts, purchase and sale deeds, exchanges, mortgages, leasing, financing and records
Eviction claims
Negotiation with tenants
Maritime and Transport
Construction, financing and acquisition of ships
Operating Contracts and operation of ships
Navigation Accidents
Litigation and marine insurance
Mergers and acquisitions of related companies to the maritime sector
Ports: terminals and port services; regulation and financing
Purchase and international sales
Super-yachts
Tourism law
Sea fishing
Labor and tax law of maritime business
Restructuring and Insolvency shipping companies and shipyards
Financing, leasing, renting, and buying and selling of vehicle fleets and rolling stock
Concessions and freight authorisations and passengers and rail access
Acquisitions and mergers of transportation companies
Freight operators and vehicle rental
Rail accidents and administrative procedures, legal and arbitration
Transportation insurance by road, rail and rolling stock
Corporate
Company formation
Merger, demergers, transformation and dissolution of companies
Acquisition and control of shareholdings
Shareholder agreements, social pacts changes, transfers of quotas and shares
Mergers and Acquisitions
Acquisition of all kinds of unlisted companies by purchase, merger, capital increase, etc.
Acquisition of listed companies (takeover bids), including operations with a view to withdrawal of trading on regulated markets (public-to-private transactions) and excluding minority shareholders, if applicable
Turn-arounds, restructurings. Advice on investments in companies in financial difficulties (distressed M&A)
Mergers, demergers, global transfers of assets and liabilities, domestic and cross-border.
Corporate restructuring and groups
the headquarters shift to other jurisdictions
Distribution of dividends and reserves
Acquisition financing. Advice to buyers and financiers: senior and mezzanine financing.
Emissions of bonds, debt instruments
Securitisation of assets
Foreigncitizens
Acquiring Portuguese Nationality
Legalization
Residence
Fiscal Regime
Insolvency and Restructuring
Advice in the pre-insolvency stage
Responsibility of administrators
Preparation of agreements between creditors
Insolvency administrator Activity monitoring
Expedients relating to collective redundancies
Advice on liquidation stage
Recognition and enforcement of judgments in foreign insolvency proceedings
Investment in insolvent assets or liabilities
Company Restructuring and group
Refinancing and debt restructuring
Advice on the stage prior to insolvency
Negotiation with financial institutions of distressed debt funds or
Standstill agreements and “bridge loans”
Structuring guarantees packages
Acquisition of assets and debt of companies in crisis (distressed assets & debt)
PaymentAgreements
Debt Capitalization
Foreign Investment
Legal advice for foreign capital investment in Portuguese companies
Legal advice for investment of domestic companies abroad
Registration and regularization of foreign capital
Media and Social Communication
Advice on the sectoral regulation of audiovisual media and other media services
Legal status of entities providing audiovisual services
Buying and selling companies providing audiovisual media services and media
Assistance for participation in public tenders.
Industrial and Intellectual Property
Insignia marks and patents registration processes, as well as domain name registration
Copyright and publishing contracts, considering this area new branches of law such as the Information Technology and the Internet
Technology transfer and technical assistance agreements
