Legal Services

Our legal department provides a wide array of high quality professional services in civil, commercial and administrative law. The department that deals with legal, banking and social services covers all the legal aspects of comparative law, banking law, tax law, real estate ownership law, transport law, European Union law, international law, safety and administrative law.

This department deals with all the formalities relative to the constitution and management of new companies, other entities apart from trusts, on behalf of our clients, in different juridical systems; we provide a domiciliation service, as well as – always in conformity with the legal normative on the matter – fiduciary proprietorship on behalf of third parties and deals with every legal change in the juridical subjects after its constitution.

The legal disputes division offers qualified assistance on commercial disputes and on arbitration procedures nationally and internationally.

Our Services:


Legal and Banking Corporate Services
  • 1. COMPARATIVE INTERNATIONAL LAW
    • a) International Investments
      • International investments
      • Set-up and introduction of joint ventures and negotiation of investment protocols
      • Preparation of contracts and supervision of assets and knowledge transfer
    • b) Corporate Law
      • Company incorporation
      • Acquisition, placement and equity stake control
      • Attributions, mergers, spin-off, financing and corporate domicile change
      • Stake holding and consultancy regarding the set-up of European Economic Interest Grouping (E.E.I.G.)
      • Nacional and international procedures

 

  • 2. BANKING AND FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS LAW
    • a) Financial Institutions
      • Identification of credit institutions and financial institutions, as well as branches and representation offices
    • b) Contracts and Commercial Transactions
      • Secutirization legal advisory
      • Legal advisory on venture capital and capital accumulation/raise projects (acumulação de capital) 
      • Negotiation and issuance of national and international loans
      • Negotiation and issuance of international payment instruments (letters of credit, letters of comfort, etc.)
      • Advisory on financial contracts (leasing, factoring, forfeiting, etc.)

 

  • 3. REAL ESTATE LAW
    • a) Assistance to real estate companies, investment banks and investors in general, national and international, in real estate transactions, including the redaction of contracts in relation to acquisitions, sales, mortgages, rentals and renting.

 

  • 4. TRANSPORT LAW
    • a) Maritime Navigation
      • Supply contracts and onshore and offshore services
      • Insurance for hull, cargo and crew
      • Vessel registration (commercial and sports)
      • Assistance on financing regarding acquisition and/or vessel construction
      • Consultancy regarding maritime law, in straight cooperation with international specialists
      • Legal assistance regarding the redaction of contracts on vessel rental
    • b) Aerial Navigation
      • Financing systems for aircraft sale
      • Aircraft registration
      • Advisory on aereal traffic rights and aerial cabotage licenses (and also, regarding administrative procedures for airline authorizations)
      • Air transport regulation

 

  • 5. EU AND INTERNATIONAL LAW
    • a) Consultancy on competition law and administrative procedures of the antitrust authority of the EU
    • b) Consultancy on policies regarding European structural funds, grants and subsidies in favor of EU States
    • c) Legal opinions in several languages on any matters, jurisprudence or normative law, within the scope of EU law
    • d) Consultancy on customs law and international customs agreements
    • e) Consultancy on criminal law, comparative law and international law, in particular economic crime law

 

  • 6. ADMINISTRATIVE LAW
    • a) Privatization
    • b) Telecommunications law (radio, television, multimedia)
    • c) Disclosure of national and international tenders

 

  • 7. INSURANCE LAW
    • a) Insurance and reinsurance contracts
    • b) Access to the insurance market in any country of the EU

Litigation Advisory
  • 1. INTERNATIONAL LITIGATION
    • a) Advisory on litigation of cases of civil, criminal, commercial, fiscal, labor, maritime and aerial nature
    • b) National and international arbitrage and enforcement of international sentences
    • c) Extrajudicial means regarding the resolution of controversies
    • d) Advisory on insolvency lawsuits and restructuring/rehabilitation
    • e) Advisory on cases of professional negligence
    • f) Advisory on negligence and personal