Expert Guides - Portugal

The improved disposition of the Portuguese courts (if you can afford them)

According to statistics released in August 2018 by the Portuguese Directorate-General for Justice Policy (DGJP), pending civil actions decreased 13.8% in the first quarter of 2018 when compared with the same period in 2017

13/09/2018 Inês Gomes da Cruz, PLMJ, Portugal

The new European strategy for plastics in a circular economy

Plastic represents one of the most commonly used substances

20/03/2018 Manuel de Andrade Neves, Abreu Advogados, Portugal Madalena Bernardes Coelho, Abreu Advogados, Portugal Telmo Coutinho Rodrigues, Abreu Advogados, Portugal

Are we prepared for the near future?

Recently, I started watching the Norwegian TV show “Occupied”

20/03/2018 Mónica Carneiro Pacheco, CMS Rui Pena & Arnaut, Portugal

Money laundering: the Portuguese way – from good intentions to reality check

Last September saw the coming into force in Portugal of Law No. 83/2017, which establishes anti-money laundering and terrorism financing measures, partially transposing Directive 2015/849/EU, of the European Parliament and of the Council, and Council Directive 2016/2258/EU (the so called 4th...

16/03/2018 Rui Patrício, Morais Leitão Galvão Teles Soares da Silva & Associados, Portugal Filipa Marques Júnior, Morais Leitão Galvão Teles Soares da Silva & Associados, Portugal

Female Litigation Lawyers: The Present-day Action Heroes?

This year, the International Bar Association (IBA) has launched a global survey to investigate why female lawyers leave law firms

31/08/2017 Inês Gomes da Cruz, PLMJ, Portugal Rute Alves, PLMJ, Portugal

Update over the Portuguese recent main legal corporate amendments

During the last semester of 2017, relevant amendments were approved under the Portuguese corporate legislation

31/08/2017 Sofia Barros Carvalhosa, CTSU – Sociedade de Advogados, Portugal

The application of tax treaties to collective investment vehicles: The Portuguese case

The purpose of this article is to make a brief summary of the problems and issues regarding the application of conventions to avoid double taxation to collective investment vehicles, and then to summarize the solution recently (2015) adopted by the Portuguese legislator to address such issues in an...

03/07/2017 Filipe Abreu, PLMJ, Portugal Joana Maldonado Reis, Abreu Advogados, Portugal

Is there a future to the feed-in-tariff system in the European Union?

As it is undisputed, the natural resources are being cut off in an unsustainable rate that calls for action – article 191 (1), §3, TFEU. Accordingly, the renewable energy sources (RES) are being called upon to replace the fossil-based energy.

21/03/2017 Manuel de Andrade Neves, Abreu Advogados, Portugal

APA in Portugal

The Deloitte Portugal transfer pricing practice is led by Patrícia Matos and consists of 27 transfer pricings specialists, located in three offices

26/08/2016 Patrícia Matos, Deloitte, Portugal

Starting-Up a Business in Portugal: A corporate legal approach

Portugal is a country that offers a cost-competitive and skillful labour market, good infrastructures and a great geostrategic location – which has enabled in the past the Portuguese to dominate maritime exploration during the Age of Discoveries

26/08/2016 Sofia Barros Carvalhosa, CTSU – Sociedade de Advogados, Portugal Joana Pereira Dias, CTSU – Sociedade de Advogados, Portugal

Portugal: Two highly competitive tax regimes to attract investment

We are referring to the regime for investment funds and the regime for foreigners to set-up their residence in Portugal

23/06/2016 Bruno Santiago, Morais Leitão Galvão Teles Soares da Silva & Associados, Portugal

White-collar crime in Portugal: risks and challenges

With an economy that is still fragile and trying to define the right way out of the financial crisis that led to the intervention of the IMF/European Commission in the middle of 2011, any analysis of white-collar crime in Portugal is dominated by the investigations relating to the main financial...

15/03/2016 João Medeiros, PLMJ, Portugal Paulo Farinha Alves, PLMJ, Portugal

Focus on the Angolan power sector – Investment in capacity building, efficiency and steps towards liberalisation

2015 brought a revision of the Angolan power sector law (PSL), which followed a 2014 reorganization of the attributions of its major stakeholders (all state owned enterprises (SOE)), most of which had ambitiously been forecasted in the 2011 National Energy Policy and Security of Supply Strategy...

26/01/2016 Manuel Santos Vítor, PLMJ, Portugal Ana Oliveira Rocha, PLMJ, Portugal

Real estate investment in Portugal: back to the busy days of 2007

In the last two years, real estate investment in Portugal has changed in a very significant way, affecting both commercial and residential real estate investment.

After an abrupt fall, in which commercial investment came from a high of around €1.4 billion in 2007 to a minimum of around €100 million...

13/05/2015 Miguel Marques dos Santos, Garrigues, Portugal

Issuance of commercial paper in Portugal

Tiago Marreiros Moreira and Ricardo Seabra Moura Vieira de Almeida & Associados Lisbon

Further to the entering into force of Decree Law 193/2005 in January 1 2006 (that introduced the Debt Securities Special Tax Regime), investment income and capital gains derived by qualified non-resident beneficial...

15/04/2015 Tiago Marreiros Moreira, VdA Vieira de Almeida, Portugal Ricardo Seabra Moura, VdA Vieira de Almeida, Portugal

The new energy economy: Greener, smarter, stored and efficient

Energy lawyers are part of a world deemed conventional and cautious but which is truly one of innovation and challenge. Energy companies, be it fossil fuel, renewable or service companies have been at the forefront of innovation and investment, while working in markets facing various economic and...

14/04/2015 Vanda Cascão, VdA Vieira de Almeida, Portugal

Key challenges in the Portuguese TMT sector

The last couple of years have been particularly challenging for the TMT sector in Portugal. Two of the main Portuguese telecom players (ZON and Optimus) merged, joining forces against the historic national operator. The new operator (branded NOS) is now a global player present in all markets (fixed,...

01/01/2015 Margarida Couto, VdA Vieira de Almeida, Portugal

Recent tax reforms attract investors to Portugal

For several years Portugal faced difficulties in attracting foreign direct investment, partially due to the complexity of its legal and tax system, with direct impact on compliance costs and on the level of legal (un)certainty for foreign investors. In fact, government bureaucracy and taxation have...

01/09/2014 Tiago Marreiros Moreira, VdA Vieira de Almeida, Portugal Francisco Cabral Matos, VdA Vieira de Almeida, Portugal

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Expert	Firm	Practice area
Abreu, Filipe	PLMJ	Rising stars
Afonso Costa, Susana	CMS Rui Pena & Arnaut	Labour & Employment, Women in Business Law
Alves Pereira, José	Alves Pereira & Teixeira de Sousa	Aviation, Commercial Arbitration
Alves, Nuno Peres	Morais Leitão Galvão Teles Soares da Silva & Associados	Telecommunications
Alves, Rogério	Rogério Alves & Associados - Sociedade de Advogados	White Collar Crime
Amendoeira, Rui	VdA Vieira de Almeida	Energy and Natural Resources
Anastácio, Gonçalo	SRS Advogados	Energy and Natural Resources
Anastácio, Gonçalo Gentil	SRS Advogados	Competition and Antitrust
Andrade Amaro, Ricardo	Morais Leitão Galvão Teles Soares da Silva & Associados	Rising stars
Andrade Dias, Mateus	Andrade Dias & Associados	Shipping
Andrade Dias, Pedro	Andrade Dias & Associados	Shipping
Andrade Dias, Teresa	Andrade Dias & Associados	Shipping
Anselmo Torres, Manuel	Galhardo Vilão Torres	Tax
Arantes Fontes, Tito	Uría Menéndez	Commercial Arbitration, Litigation
Arantes Pedroso, Filipa	Morais Leitão Galvão Teles Soares da Silva & Associados	Real Estate, Women in Business Law
Arnaut, José Luís	CMS Rui Pena & Arnaut	Trademarks
Assis, Maria Inês	Abreu Advogados	Rising stars
Azevedo, Raquel	PLMJ	Rising stars
Barreira, Rui	BCH Lawyers	Tax
Barreiros, José António	Sole practitioner	Litigation, White Collar Crime
Barros Carvalhosa, Sofia	CTSU – Sociedade de Advogados	Women in Business Law
Batista, Ana Sofia	Abreu Advogados	Private Equity
Beja Neves, António	Deloitte	Tax
Belim, Catarina	Belim	Tax
Belo, Luís	Deloitte	Tax
Bernardes Coelho, Madalena	Abreu Advogados	Environment
Bernardo, Cláudia	Deloitte	Tax
Botelho Moniz, Carlos	Morais Leitão Galvão Teles Soares da Silva & Associados	Competition and Antitrust
Braga, António Pedro	Morais Leitão Galvão Teles Soares da Silva & Associados	Rising stars
Branco, Luís	Morais Leitão Galvão Teles Soares da Silva & Associados	Banking, Project Finance
Breia, Catarina	Nexia - Santos Carvalho & Associados	Rising stars
Brigolas, Rúben	PLMJ	Rising stars
Brito de Goes, Duarte	Campos Ferreira Sá Carneiro & Associados	Project Finance
Brito e Abreu, Francisco	Uría Menéndez	Private Equity
Brito Ferreira, Catarina	Morais Leitão Galvão Teles Soares da Silva & Associados	Rising stars
Cabrita Neto, Serena	PLMJ	Tax
Camacho Palma, Rui	Linklaters	Tax
Campos Ferreira, Fernando	Campos Ferreira Sá Carneiro & Associados	Private Equity
Cardigos, Pedro	CARDIGOS	Banking
Carneiro Pacheco, Mónica	CMS Rui Pena & Arnaut	Energy and Natural Resources, Women in Business Law
Cascão, Vanda	VdA Vieira de Almeida	Energy and Natural Resources, Project Finance, Women in Business Law
Cassiano Santos, Pedro	VdA Vieira de Almeida	Banking, Capital Markets, Structured Finance and Securitisation
Castelo Paulo, Octávio	SRS Advogados	Telecommunications
Castelos, Maria	Campos Ferreira Sá Carneiro & Associados	Banking, Private Equity, Project Finance, Women in Business Law
Castro Pereira, Miguel	Gómez-Acebo & Pombo	Banking
Castro Silva, Fernando	Garrigues	Tax
Cavaleiro Brandão, Manuel	PLMJ	Commercial Arbitration
Cocco, Magda	VdA Vieira de Almeida	Technology, Media & Telecommunications, Women in Business Law
Coelho, Pedro Simões	VdA Vieira de Almeida	Investment Funds
Corrêa de Oliveira, Pedro	VdA Vieira de Almeida	Rising stars
Correia, Rita	Miranda & Associados	Energy and Natural Resources, Women in Business Law
Cortes Martins, Luís Miguel	Serra Lopes, Cortes Martins & Associados	Commercial Arbitration, Litigation, Mergers and Acquisitions, Private Equity
Cortes, Tiago	PLMJ	Labour & Employment
Cortez Pimentel, Miguel	Morais Leitão Galvão Teles Soares da Silva & Associados	Rising stars
Costa Andrade, Carlos	Uría Menéndez	Capital Markets
Costa e Silva, Carlos	Barrocas Advogados	Shipping
Costa Pereira, Rui	PLMJ	Rising stars
Costa Ramos, Vânia	Carlos Pinto de Abreu e Associados	White Collar Crime
Couto, Margarida	VdA Vieira de Almeida	Best of the Best, Technology, Media & Telecommunications, Women in Business Law
Cruz, Nuno	J Pereira da Cruz	Trademarks
d’oliveira, Pedro Corrêa	Garrigues	Rising stars
da Cruz Almeida, Cláudia	VdA Vieira de Almeida	Mergers and Acquisitions, Women in Business Law
da Glória Leitão, Maria	Cuatrecasas	Labour & Employment, Women in Business Law
da Palma Borges, Ricardo	Ricardo da Palma Borges & Associados	Tax
de Almada, Miguel	Cuatrecasas	Best of the Best, Commercial Arbitration, Litigation
de Almeida Ferreira, Tânia	Cuatrecasas	Tax
de Almeida Pimentel, Ana Cristina	Ana Cristina Pimentel & Associados	Best of the Best, Shipping
de Andrade Neves, Manuel	Abreu Advogados	Environment
de Avillez Pereira, Miguel	Gómez-Acebo & Pombo	Restructuring and Insolvency, Mergers and Acquisitions
de Brito Pereira, Jorge	Uría Menéndez	Capital Markets
de Magalhães Cardoso, António	VdA Vieira de Almeida	Patents
de Moura, Filipe	Deloitte	Transfer Pricing
de Oliveira Pinto Trindade, Marta	Abreu Advogados	Labour & Employment, Women in Business Law
de Sá e Cunha, Paulo	Cuatrecasas	White Collar Crime
de Sampaio, José	J E Dias Costa	Patents
de Sousa da Câmara, Francisco	Morais Leitão Galvão Teles Soares da Silva & Associados	Tax
Dewerbe, Patrick	CMS Rui Pena & Arnaut	Tax
Dias, Teresa Andrade	Andrade Dias & Associados	Women in Business Law
Espanha, João	Espanha e Associados	Tax
Esteves, Jaime	PwC	Tax
Faria, Pedro	PLMJ	Litigation
Farinha Alves, Paulo	PLMJ	Litigation, White Collar Crime
Fernandes de Oliveira, António	AFDO-adv	Tax
Fernandes Ferreira, Rogério M	RFF & Associados	Tax
Ferraz de Carvalho, Francisco	Linklaters	Project Finance
Ferreira Malaquias, Pedro	Uría Menéndez	Banking, Structured Finance and Securitisation
Ferreirinha, Pedro	VdA Vieira de Almeida	Real Estate
Formigal, Rodrigo	Abreu Advogados	Rising stars
Freire, Teresa	pbbr.a	Real Estate
Freitas, Rosa	Deloitte	Tax
Furtado Martins, Pedro	Campos Ferreira Sá Carneiro & Associados	Labour & Employment
Gaio, António	António Frutuoso de Melo e Associados	Tax
Galvão Teles, Nuno	Morais Leitão Galvão Teles Soares da Silva & Associados	Mergers and Acquisitions
Gamito, Conceição	VdA Vieira de Almeida	Tax
Garín, Duarte	Uría Menéndez
Garin, Duarte	Uría Menéndez	Real Estate
Gomes da Costa, Sofia	PLMJ	Real Estate, Women in Business Law
Gomes da Cruz, Inês	PLMJ	Litigation, Women in Business Law
Gomes Freire, Paula	VdA Vieira de Almeida	Banking, Women in Business Law
Gonçalves Pereira, Frederico	VdA Vieira de Almeida	Restructuring and Insolvency, Litigation
Gonçalves, Jorge Salvador	Garrigues	Real Estate
Gorjão-Henriques, Miguel	Sérvulo & Associados	Competition and Antitrust
Graham, Geoffrey	Neville de Rougemont & Associados	Aviation
Guedes Vaz, Nuno	PLMJ	Labour & Employment
Jácome, José	AAA Advogados	Restructuring and Insolvency
Jardim, Alexandre	pbbr.a	Private Equity
Júdice, José Miguel	PLMJ	Commercial Arbitration, Litigation
Lampreia, Joaquim Pedro	VdA Vieira de Almeida	Tax
Leite de Campos, Gonçalo	Gonçalo Leite de Campos & Associados	Tax
Leon, Luís	Deloitte	Tax
Leónidas Rocha, Diogo	Garrigues	Capital Markets
Líbano Monteiro, Nuno	PLMJ	Litigation
Lobo Xavier, António	Morais Leitão Galvão Teles Soares da Silva & Associados	Tax
Loureiro, Carlos	Deloitte	Tax
Lousa, Nuno Ferreira	Linklaters	Rising stars
Lowndes Marques, Filipe	Morais Leitão Galvão Teles Soares da Silva & Associados	Project Finance
Machado de Almeida, Marta	RFF & Associados	Rising stars
Marques Júnior, Filipa	Morais Leitão Galvão Teles Soares da Silva & Associados	White Collar Crime
Marques Mendes, Mário	Gómez-Acebo & Pombo	Competition and Antitrust
Marreiros Moreira, Tiago	VdA Vieira de Almeida	Tax
Matos, Francisco Cabral	VdA Vieira de Almeida	Tax
Matos, Patrícia	Deloitte	Transfer Pricing
Matos, Pedro Vidal	Cuatrecasas	Rising stars
Medeiros, João	PLMJ	Best of the Best, Litigation, White Collar Crime
Mendes, Benjamim	DLA Piper	Labour & Employment
Mendonça, Paulo	EY	Transfer Pricing
Mesquita, Abel	PLMJ	Labour & Employment
Metello de Nápoles, Pedro	PLMJ	Commercial Arbitration
Monteiro, Luís Miguel	Morais Leitão Galvão Teles Soares da Silva & Associados	Labour & Employment
Monteiro, Nuno Líbano	PLMJ	Restructuring and Insolvency, Shipping and maritime
Moura Portugal, António	DLA Piper	Aviation
Moutinho, José Lobo	Sérvulo & Associados	White Collar Crime
Nuno Azevedo Neves, João	DLA Piper	Commercial Arbitration
Oliveira Costa, Mónica	Coelho Ribeiro e Associados	Information Technology
Oliveira, Ricardo	PLMJ	Competition and Antitrust
Ortigão Ramos, Diogo	Cuatrecasas	Best of the Best, Tax
Osório de Castro, Carlos	Morais Leitão Galvão Teles Soares da Silva & Associados	Capital Markets, Mergers and Acquisitions
Paínho, Ana Rita	Anselmo Vaz Afra & Associados	Information Technology
Patrício, Rui	Morais Leitão Galvão Teles Soares da Silva & Associados	Litigation, White Collar Crime
Pereira Coutinho, Frederico	Cuatrecasas	Best of the Best, Corporate Governance, Mergers and Acquisitions
Pereira Coutinho, Pedro	VdA Vieira de Almeida	Rising stars
Pereira de Miranda, Agostinho	Miranda & Associados	Energy and Natural Resources
Pereira Dias, Joana	CTSU – Sociedade de Advogados	Women in Business Law
Pereira Reis, João	Morais Leitão Galvão Teles Soares da Silva & Associados	Real Estate
Perestrelo, Diogo	PLMJ	Mergers and Acquisitions, Private Equity, Project Finance
Pimentel, Ana Cristina	Ana Cristina Pimentel & Associados	Women in Business Law
Pinto Basto, Segismundo	Morais Leitão Galvão Teles Soares da Silva & Associados	Mergers and Acquisitions
Pinto Cardoso, Miguel	VdA Vieira de Almeida	Best of the Best, Commercial Arbitration, Litigation
Pinto Correia, Carlos	Linklaters	Competition and Antitrust
Pinto de Abreu, Carlos	Carlos Pinto de Abreu e Associados	White Collar Crime
Pinto Duarte, Rui	Rui Pinto Duarte & Associados	Commercial Arbitration
Pinto Leite, António	Morais Leitão Galvão Teles Soares da Silva & Associados	Commercial Arbitration, Litigation
Pinto, Pedro	pbbr.a	Real Estate
Proença de Carvalho, Daniel	Uría Menéndez	Best of the Best, Litigation, White Collar Crime
Protásio, Manuel	VdA Vieira de Almeida	Best of the Best, Project Finance
Pulido, Ana Teresa	PLMJ	Trademarks, Women in Business Law
Reigada Pereira, Ricardo	Linklaters	Tax
Reis, Daniel	PLMJ	Information Technology, Telecommunications
Reis, Inês	pbbr.a	Labour & Employment, Women in Business Law
Reis, Joana Maldonado	Abreu Advogados	Rising stars
Reis, Miguel C	PLMJ	Tax
Rente, Dirce	PLMJ	Rising stars
Resina da Silva, Fernando	VdA Vieira de Almeida	Information Technology
Ricou, Maria João	Cuatrecasas	Capital Markets, Structured Finance and Securitisation, Women in Business Law
Rocha Mendes, António	Campos Ferreira Sá Carneiro & Associados	Tax
Rocha, Manuel Lopes	PLMJ	Information Technology
Rocha, Miguel Leónidas	Deloitte	Tax
Rodrigues Martins, Gabriela	AAA Advogados	Women in Business Law, Mergers and Acquisitions
Rodrigues, Telmo Coutinho	Abreu Advogados	Environment
Romão, Filipe	Uría Menéndez	Tax
Rosado Correia, João	Miranda & Associados	Energy and Natural Resources
Rui Paulino, Eduardo	Morais Leitão Galvão Teles Soares da Silva & Associados	Rising stars
Ruiz, Nuno	VdA Vieira de Almeida	Competition and Antitrust
Sá Carneiro, Francisco	Campos Ferreira Sá Carneiro & Associados	Banking, Project Finance
Sá Esteves, César	SRS Advogados	Labour & Employment
Sampaio Caramelo, António	Morais Leitão Galvão Teles Soares da Silva & Associados	Commercial Arbitration
Santiago, Bruno	Morais Leitão Galvão Teles Soares da Silva & Associados	Tax
Santos Cruz, Claudia	Morais Leitão Galvão Teles Soares da Silva & Associados	Banking, Shipping, Women in Business Law
Santos Pereira, Henrique	Barrocas Advogados	Shipping and maritime
Santos, Nuno Figueirôa	CMS Rui Pena & Arnaut	Rising stars
Saragoça da Matta, Paulo	Saragoça da Matta & Silveiro de Barros	White Collar Crime
Shearman de Macedo, Joaquim	CMS Rui Pena & Arnaut	Commercial Arbitration, Litigation
Simões Correia, José Manuel	Simões Correia Associados	Labour & Employment
Smithson, William	SRS Advogados	Structured Finance and Securitisation
Soares da Veiga, Raul	Raul Soares da Veiga e Associados	White Collar Crime
Soares de Sousa, Luís	Cuatrecasas	Aviation
Soares Machado, José Carlos	SRS Advogados	Litigation
Soares, António	Linklaters	Best of the Best, Capital Markets
Soares, Rosa Maria	Deloitte	Tax
Sousa Machado, Carmo	Abreu Advogados	Labour & Employment
Sousa, João	EY	Tax
Taveira da Fonseca, Joaquim	Taveira da Fonseca & Associados	Litigation
Teixeira de Abreu, Miguel	Abreu Advogados	Tax
Teixeira de Matos, João Paulo	Garrigues	Competition and Antitrust
Traça, João Luís	Miranda & Associados	Information Technology
Vaz Pinto, Filipe	Morais Leitão Galvão Teles Soares da Silva & Associados	Commercial Arbitration
Vaz Pinto, Helena	VdA Vieira de Almeida	Mergers and Acquisitions, Women in Business Law
Vieira de Almeida, João	VdA Vieira de Almeida	Mergers and Acquisitions
Vieira Peres, Joaquim	Morais Leitão Galvão Teles Soares da Silva & Associados	Competition and Antitrust
Xavier da Cunha, Diogo	Miranda & Associados	Energy and Natural Resources
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