In a context of changing professional relationships, in which different contractual ties coexist with regulatory frameworks created at different times, only professionals with knowledge gained from experience and consolidated and tested learning can successfully guide employers and workers through the complexities of general regimes, exceptional regimes, public or private sector employment ties, amendments to the law, and transnational labour relations.
Our range of services begins with the preparation of the creation of a business, deciding on the role that each employee will have in the company, their areas of activity, their responsibilities, benefits, disciplinary status and career planning, as well as supporting our clients' human resources departments throughout their employees' contracts, from the moment they are being prepared for hiring, also providing our services to employees, or candidates, who are in the negotiation phase of their contracts.
In the event of a dispute, we also provide support, either on behalf of the employer or on behalf of the employee, with a view to seeking an extrajudicial solution to the dispute, and when this is not possible, we represent our clients in labour courts.
With our experience, and with the utmost care regarding issues involving conflicts of interest, we negotiate recovery plans that adapt to our clients' businesses, but also, when representing creditors, we support them in this type of procedure, with the aim of avoiding losses and maximizing gains, both at the stage when the insolvency scenario begins to take shape and throughout its development.
We also work in the restructuring of liabilities and in the recovery of companies, once again advising both debtors and creditors. In the event of insolvency, we analyse and instruct insolvency plans and processes, both in the event of recovery and in the event of liquidation of the company.
Rapid adaptation in the corporate and business world benefits from the alliance between stability and agility, so that windows of opportunity are not lost, nor positions in the markets in which one operates.
Our work is focused on predicting risks and ensuring opportunities, ensuring superior levels of security at any stage of a company's life, including its creation, transformation, sale, dissolution, and even the purchase of commercial companies.
Throughout the development of the business, we operate in regulated markets, obtaining licenses and authorization to operate in these markets, or we represent clients in administrative offense proceedings, or in violation of the terms of these same licenses, also representing our clients in court whenever necessary.
Furthermore, taking into account the sectors in which we operate in particular, we provide services relating to good practices both in the development of the company's activity and in contracting with suppliers, partners and customers.
We represent our clients before public entities, whether in the preparation of investments that may require the intervention of these same public entities, or in the assessment of the business potential, when it depends on state authorizations, or if there is a possibility of being affected by decisions of public entities, including legislative processes in preparation, in the public hearing phases, with a special focus on the sectors of industry, construction, agriculture, waste, health, and, transversal to the activities, land use planning.
In the licensing of economic activities, whether they are licensing before entities of the Direct or Indirect Administration, Local Administration and other independent administrative entities, we provide our services in creating the conditions for our clients to comply with the requirements of the licensing in question, and, subsequently, in the licensing process itself, in all its phases, from submission to the issuance of the license, or administrative complaint/appeal or to the courts, if the same is not issued.
Our firm has extensive experience in drafting the most diverse types of contracts that serve as support and aim to regulate the obligations of the various partners in multiple sectors, with a view to:
1. Risk prevention.
Increased business profit.
2. Improving business performance by imposing clear obligations on other stakeholders and holding them accountable.
3. Exponential increase in the chances of recovering assets and credits.
4. Exponential increase in success in court in the event of litigation throughout the life of the contract.
The benefits of our legal advice in the area of contracting have been particularly evident in the construction sector, where, over the years, we have worked on and improved the way we provide our advice on this type of contract, both in the construction sector itself and in all activities related to it, depending on the role of suppliers of materials and/or services, and of business partners and end customers, having tested the effectiveness of these contracts in court and improved them.
We also reserve part of our activity for end customers who, dissatisfied with the progress of the works they have contracted, seek us out with a view to resolving disputes out of court and/or representing us in court with a view to recovering damages suffered as a result of the works.
Our team has specialized, over time, in advising on complex real estate acquisitions or sales, depending on whether the client's objective is to support a given economic activity that is more or less regulated, subject to licensing, such as construction or rehabilitation, or real estate for industrial use, depending on the type of industrial establishment inherent to the activity to be developed, and also, the purchase or sale of real estate for private use.
Furthermore, depending on the monetization model, we support our clients in negotiations and subsequent drafting of contracts, and throughout their execution, whether the objective is the mere purchase and sale, or the lease, other types of operation, such as sale and leaseback , contracts, turnkey contracts, asset management, among others, in a joint venture model or in exclusive operation, including for tourism purposes.
With a focus on preventing and reducing the impact of legal proceedings on the client's life, our experience in litigation allows us, from the pre-litigation stage, to carry out a careful risk analysis of legal proceedings.
We have accumulated successes in alternative dispute resolution, and in mediation and conciliation procedures, but when the judicial process becomes necessary to defend the interests of our clients, we represent them in disputes submitted to the Portuguese courts, including in urgent processes with the request for precautionary measures, and in the remaining types of processes, in all courts, following their development in all possible phases, including the appeal phases.
We initiate and monitor proceedings in ordinary courts - civil and criminal courts, but we also focus much of our work as lawyers in labour courts, administrative and tax courts, and also in arbitration courts and peace courts.
