– Incorporation of companies and representation of foreign entities;

– Monitoring and setting up corporate acquisition operations;

– Mergers, divisions, exchanges and corporate acquisition (Mergers & Acquisitions);

– Legal due diligence;

– Restructuring of companies and groups of companies;

– Corporate governance and capital markets;

– Parasocial agreements;

– Support within the planning and development of corporate structures to support real estate investment operations;

– Support within the preparation of all documents necessary for the installation and operation of tourist, commercial and industrial undertakings;

– Advice and monitoring of real estate investment and financing operations;

– Lotting, parcelling and reparcelling procedures;

– Real estate legal audits;

– Drafting and negotiation of all types of contracts, including, but not limited to real estate agreements (lease, assignment of rights, usufruct, retail contracts in shopping centres, loan, among others) and purchase and sale agreements, exchange, purchase option, reservation of title, promissory contracts for present and future assets and unilateral promises;

– Drafting and monitoring of construction work contracts, both during the preliminary stage of candidate selection through procurement procedures and in the preparation of specifications or other contractual documents, and during the execution stage of construction contracts and contractual guarantees, according to the developer’s perspective;

– Counselling in regard of real estate transactions, including the drafting of any contracts, with or without bank financing, including real estate leasing and lease-back;

– Advice on the incorporation of horizontal property, including formalisation and drafting of the relevant documents;

– Regularisation of property registration, including provisional and definitive registrations;

– Representation before public entities including counselling in regard of registration procedures (v.g., local authorities in issuing of Technical Data Sheets or notices concerning legal preference rights);

– Counselling on lodging hierarchical appeals and litigation against registrars’ acts;

– Representation within administrative offence proceedings brought, namely by local authorities;

– Representation within Tax Court proceedings before Judicial Courts and CAAD (Arbitration) e.g. Income Tax (IRS and IRC); Excise Tax (VAT and Excise Duties); Property Tax (IMI, IMT and stamp duty), Social Security and Tax Benefits;

– Drafting of legal opinions and tax-related opinions, including the preparation, presentation and monitoring of ex officio reviews to the Tax Authority;

– Monitoring of tax inspections;

– Drafting, presentation and monitoring of administrative proceedings (e.g., administrative complaints, requests for ex officio review, hierarchical appeals) before the Tax Authority and Social Security;

– Follow-up and counselling within tax enforcement and administrative offence proceedings before the Tax Administration, Social Security and/or Court appeals;

– Drafting, presentation and monitoring of procedures regarding exemptions and tax benefits (situations of tax exemption or relief);

– Monitoring, preparation and drafting of the relevant documents regarding Transfer Pricing – Tax Dossier;

– Tax advice on all types of operations, including those related to investment projects and real estate development, transactions involving the purchase and sale of assets and financial holdings and the restructuring of companies or business groups;

– Advice on international taxation in all transactions involving more than one legal system and which may be regulated by international conventions (e.g. Double Taxation Agreements) and/or by Community Law;

– Tax Audit of the main transactions/business areas of the Clients and circuits with tax implications;

– Tax (and legal) due diligence, review of Models 22 and monitoring of compliance with tax declaration and payment obligations of individuals and companies (tax compliance).

Legal representation, namely in the following legal actions:

– Civil liability actions;

– Enforcement actions;

– Injunction proceedings;

– Precautionary measures;

– Divorce and parental responsibility regulation proceedings;

– Ad hoc and institutional arbitration, including in proceedings for recognition, enforcement and annulment of arbitral awards.

Negotiation and contract drafting of any kind, namely:

 

– Construction work contracts;

– Joint venture agreements;

– Franchise contracts;

– Agency agreements;

– Concession contracts;

– Distribution contracts;

– Software licensing agreements.

– Pre-nuptial agreements;

– Amicable divorce;

– Divorce without consent;

– Regulation of parental responsibilities;

– Legal separation of people and property;

– Inventory and out-of-court settlement of the couple’s common property;

– Donations, wills and agreements as to future successions;

– Judicial and out-of-court inheritance partition;

– Safeguarding adults’ special proceedings.

– Legal advice on resolving complaints lodged by corporate customers, including via consumer portals with regulators/supervisors or DECO;

– Representation within administrative offence proceedings, namely brought by ASAE.

– Out-of-court debt negotiation;

– Injunction proceedings;

– Executive actions;

– Submission of claims (civil and tax);

– Lodging insolvency actions and representation within insolvency proceedings;

– Restructuring procedures involving judicial management or out-of-court creditors’ resolution;

– Counselling on company restructuring and revitalisation proceedings (PER, Recovery Plans and SIREVE).

– Private equity;

– Securities and real estate investment funds;

– Venture capital funds;

– Asset deals;

– Regulation of banking and investment services;

– Capital markets and derivatives;

– Setting up and contracting corporate financing operations and real estate projects;

– Negotiation and preparation of guarantees;

– Leasing and lease-back

– We support our private clients in their relations with central and local public administration as well as with concessionary entities.

– In this area of practice, the legal services provided in the field of administrative litigation are of particular importance.

– In the field of urban planning, the Vertical’s team provides legal support with regard to the licensing of urban planning operations, including support in defining urban strategies for real estate investment.

– The legal services provided in the environmental field focus essentially on legal advice and support in the fields of water, waste, energy, land use, among others.

– Representation of clients within economic crime and administrative offence proceedings.

– Criminal proceedings in general.

– Residence permit for investment activity (“Golden Visa”);

– Residence permit, namely for the exercise of independent professional activity or for immigrant entrepreneurs, retired people or people who live off their own income in Portugal;

– Non-habitual resident regime;

– Applications for nationality;

– Residence of European citizens.

Practice Area focused on European Union Law, namely in matters related to structural funds and free movement of people, goods, services and capital.

This practice area also provides advice in the field of Competition Law, namely in the scope of Individual Restrictive Trade Practices (namely discriminatory prices or sales conditions, lack of transparency in pricing policies and sales conditions, or abusive negotiation practices).

– Carrying out evaluation audits, by surveying and cataloguing the procedures and activities for processing personal data, building data and subcontractor maps, and also identifying the purposes of processing activities;

– Drafting of compliance reports, risk reports and suggested recommendations;

– Analysis and review of draft forms and contracts, concerning their GDPR compliance;

– Drafting of Privacy Policies and Codes of Conduct;

– Assistance in the exercise of data subjects rights;

– Advice in response to the control authority (National Commission for Data Protection) and the regulatory and supervisory bodies;

– Training sessions on GDPR for managers and employees.

Representation within occupational accident cases, including the following:

– Rights of the injured worker and/or his/her family, such as medical assistance, compensation, reparation and professional rehabilitation;

– Occupational diseases;

– Exercise of the right of reimbursement or claims against those civilly or criminally liable;

– Benefits in kind and in cash, for temporary or permanent incapacity and/or death of the injured worker;

– Calculation and payment of benefits arising from injury incurred on the job, namely indemnity, pension, remission, update and revision of pension.

Representation within civil liability cases, including the following:

– Determination of the injured party’s rights, including compensation for property damage, moral damage, bodily injury, emerging damage, lost profits, future property damage and others;

– Assessment of the injured party’s legitimate interests in the light of the proposal made by the insurer.