Shareholder arrangements, acquisitions, reorganisations and the day-to-day corporate life of a Portuguese company. Led by a partner who spent years on cross-border M&A and project finance at internationally ranked firms, with the scope and the fee set in writing before work begins.
Most of our corporate clients are foreign founders, investors or groups whose Portuguese company is one piece of a wider structure. The work below is quoted per matter, in full, once we have seen the documents.
Buying a Portuguese company, a stake in one, or a business out of one. We run the legal due diligence, negotiate the transaction documents and take the deal through completion and the registry filings.
Share deals in a Portuguese Lda move by transfer of quotas, which has its own formalities and consent rules. Getting them right at signing avoids a registry problem at closing.
Phased fees per stage (due diligence, documents, completion), each confirmed in writing before it starts.
Structures that made sense on day one rarely survive the second funding round or the first expansion. We handle the changes: capital increases, new classes of shareholders, a branch converted into a subsidiary, a holding inserted above the Portuguese company, mergers and conversions.
Each change has a corporate side, a tax side and a registry side. We line up all three before anything is filed.
Fixed fee per operation, confirmed in writing after scoping.
Most of what a Portuguese company needs from a lawyer arrives after it is registered: the first hire, the first distributor, the first supply or services contract. We stay on as your counsel in Portugal for that work.
Home-country templates tend to miss the Portuguese rules that matter, such as fixed-term contract limits, the registrations that come with a first hire, and the termination and goodwill indemnity rules for agents and distributors.
Fixed fee per document or package, quoted before it begins. No retainer required.
The recurring obligations of a Portuguese company are simple individually and easy to miss together: approval of the annual accounts, the beneficial ownership register, changes of managers, powers of attorney, minute books and filings.
We keep them in order so that a bank, an auditor or a buyer finds a clean file, and we are on hand for the contracts and decisions that come up in between.
Per matter, or a monthly retainer agreed in writing.
Every engagement is led by our managing partner, who stays your point of contact from scoping to closing. Around that lead, we bring in senior Portuguese lawyers selected for what the matter actually needs, drawn from a network of practitioners who trained at leading firms: tax, employment, regulatory, real estate or litigation.
The team is sized to the work, not the other way round. You see who is involved and what each person does in the engagement letter, and you still deal with one firm, one fee and one line of responsibility.
A scoping call and a look at the documents. Where the question is still what to do, an advisory session answers it first.
A fixed fee, or a fee per phase for transactions, set out in the engagement letter together with who works on the matter.
Documents, negotiation, signing and the registry filings, with one point of contact from start to finish.
We confirm the scope, who works on it and the fee before any work begins.
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