Practice
Areas

From Lisbon, we advise individuals and companies, finding the best legal solutions for each case.

Corporate / Society Law

We advise our clients with a constant focus on understanding the realities of the sectors and markets in which they operate, maintaining close contact with their respective sector regulators.

  • Corporate governance in corporate, commercial, and contract law
  • Venture capital
  • Private equity and venture capital, not only in the purchase and sale of assets but also in the conception and structuring of funds
  • Advice to companies and business groups, investors, and funds, both national and international
  • Advice to SMEs, in both transactional and regulatory matters
  • Due diligence processes prior to the acquisition or merger of companies and corporate groups
  • Mergers, acquisitions, and investments
  • Corporate restructurings (reorganizations, spin-offs, and dissolutions)

Corporate governance in corporate, commercial, and contract law

  • Joint ventures and strategic alliances
  • Corporate Governance
  • Corporate restructurings and reorganizations of national and international groups

Litigation and Arbitration

We stand by your side in resolving various disputes both in Portugal and abroad.

  • Corporate disputes
  • Civil liability of directors
  • Disputes related to D&O insurance
  • Collective actions, especially in representing large national and multinational companies
  • Disputes in competition and regulatory processes before the Regulatory, Supervision, and Competition Court
  • Civil and commercial litigation
  • Litigation in the pharmaceutical sector in all stages of the economic process
  • Disputes arising from public and private works contracts

Banking and Finance

We advise on banking service regulation and investment services, particularly in establishing branches in Portugal and providing cross-border services under the European free provision of services regime.

Tax Law

ELM Lawyers offers the following services in Tax Law:

  • Mergers, acquisitions, restructurings, foreign investment operations in Portugal, and from Portugal abroad

Tax litigation:

  • Administrative, arbitration, and judicial defense of clients' interests in all stages, including representation in tax, customs, or Social Security crimes
  • Solutions for national and international expansion
  • International taxation
  • Business taxation
  • Corporate reorganizations
  • Real estate taxation
  • Intellectual property taxation
  • Indirect taxation
  • Tax benefits and incentives
  • Individual taxation
  • Investment Funds
  • Private Equity- Up Stream and Down Stream
  • Credit instruments and derivatives
  • International accounting standards

Criminal, Administrative
Offenses, and Compliance

In Criminal and Administrative Offenses Law, we work in:

  • Criminal Law
  • Tax and Social Security Criminal Law
  • Cybercrime
  • Medical Liability
  • Market Protection
  • Administrative offenses

We also offer preventive compliance services, advising companies on detecting potential contingencies and providing corrective and conformity guidance with best practices.

We create codes of conduct, anti-corruption regulations, and anti-money laundering measures tailored to the specific activity.

We assist companies with training actions and continuous monitoring of compliance with internal policies and applicable laws and regulations.

Insolvencies and Restructurings

We stand by your side during the difficult times of your company.

  • Sponsorship in insolvency proceedings, including assistance with recovery plans and the use of precautionary measures
  • Restructuring and renegotiating debts either extrajudicially or within special procedures
  • Representation of multiple creditors

Real Estate, Urbanism, and Tourism

Real Estate:

  • Acquisition, commercialization, and rehabilitation of all types of real estate assets
  • Advising on real estate transactions in Portugal, from structuring and negotiation to investment
  • Sale and leaseback operations, forward funding, construction contracts, turnkey projects
  • Conducting audits

Urbanism:

  • Supporting the approval of urban operations and the administrative planning and rehabilitation activities
  • Urbanism and land use planning, both in public and private sectors
  • Urban planning and construction disputes

Tourism:

  • Preparation and negotiation of tourism exploitation contracts, sale of tourism rights, and hotel management
  • Licensing and installation of tourist enterprises and hotels

Labor Law

We provide legal support in Labor Law:

  • Advising on company restructurings across various sectors
  • Auditing processes
  • Collective labor relations
  • Labor disputes

Social Security

  • Supporting the hiring of foreign workers, including visa acquisition
  • Residence cards for non-EU citizens related to EU citizens
  • Citizenship processes
  • Work permits for both skilled and unskilled positions
  • Exceptional visas for prominent individuals in cultural or scientific activities
  • Golden Visas

Intellectual Property, Trademarks, and Patents

Experience in:

  • Support in acquiring and maintaining intellectual property rights
  • Defending intellectual property rights
  • Commercialization and licensing of rights
  • Copyrights, trade secrets, trademarks, patents
  • Litigation
  • - Technology:
  • Software licensing
  • IT consulting
  • Software development
  • Domain names
  • E-commerce
  • Outsourcing
  • Telecom and technology transactions
  • Privacy and cybersecurity
  • Data Protection Officer services
  • Tecnologia
  • Licenciamento de software
  • Consultoria informática
  • Desenvolvimento de software
  • Nomes de domínio
  • Comércio electrónico
  • Outsourcing
  • Transações na área da tecnologia e das telecomunicações
  • Privacidade e cibersegurança
  • Auditorias a empresas visando a sua adaptação aos regimes legais, criando de raiz programas integrados de compliance
  • Disponibilizamos o serviço de Data Protection Officer em regime de outsourcing

Family and Successions

We provide legal support in Family and Successions Law:

  • Divorce, separation of assets, and cohabitation
  • Property inventory
  • Allocation of the family home
  • Child and spousal support
  • Parental responsibility regulation
  • Children’s criminal law
  • Property division
  • Will creation
  • Donations

Notarial Acts

We offer the following notarial services:

  • Document certification
  • Translation certification
  • Signature recognition
  • Document authentication
  • Drafting and granting all types of powers of attorney, contracts, and other legal documents

Road Law

In the context of Insolvencies and Restructurings, we focus on:

  • Contesting and canceling traffic fines
  • Fines for exceeding driving hours, rest periods, or failure to comply with tachograph rules in transport vehicles
  • Fines for overweight transport
  • Fines for unpaid tolls
  • Environmental offenses and other administrative offenses

Always by your side

We stand by you both in Portugal and abroad through our partners network

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