Firm overview
Cuatrecasas is a well-established international law firm in Portugal, Spain and Latin America. Through a highly specialized legal teams with extensive knowledge and experience, the firm advises on all areas of business law, offering a sectoral approach and focus on all types of business. It helps clients with the most demanding matters wherever they are based.
Firm overview
Founded in 1999, CMS is an integrated, multi-jurisdictional organisation of law firms that offers full-service legal and tax advice. With 70+ offices in 40+ countries across the world, employing over 5,000 lawyers, CMS has longstanding expertise both at advising in its local jurisdictions and across borders. CMS offers specialist, business-focused advice to clients - from major multinationals and mid-caps to enterprising start-ups - operating in complex business and constantly changing regulatory environments.
We are part of the CMS global team, a world leader in the ranking of the Top 10 Global Law Firms with in-depth local knowledge and local experience in over 40 countries.
Clients from CMS Portugal benefit from the experience, the legal know-how, the deep knowledge of several sectors in the industry and also an international coverage, unique in Portugal, that allows us to provide a truly global service with a rapid response capacity.
The high standards required by the digital and traditional world are transforming the markets and boosting new business models. On CMS, we provide a monitoring focused on the client, anticipating the market tendencies in order to develop quick and efficient solutions in the face of constant challenges.
Our office has been active for nearly 50 years combining an international outlook with deep local roots. CMS lawyers are recognized leaders in the field and ranked by the most prestigious international directories.
CMS, the largest organization of law firms in Europe, aims to be the best European organization for legal services, capable of providing legal and tax advice of undisputed quality and agility.
The unique way in which CMS is organized provides its Clients with high quality and consistent advice that is absolutely client-focused and coordinated across borders.
CMS is present in 73 cities, 44 countries.
Firm overview
Durham Agrellos was founded in 2017, born of the aspiration to create a differentiated project of legal advice from its base in Portugal. We are specialized in tax law and private clients.
We place our experience at the service of our clients' needs, providing solid, innovative and creative legal solutions to particularly sensitive and complex matters.
We have adopted an institutional model of low leverage and high specialization, to ensure rigorous and personalized monitoring, guaranteeing that all hours dedicated to our clients result in effective value creation.
We believe that the solidity of the legal solutions we provide requires a constant effort to update and deepen our lawyers’ knowledge. That’s why we promote continuous training. The presence of our lawyers at the Academy reflects the genetic institutional value of our firm. We demand a culture of the utmost rigour, hard work and sense of duty.
Firm overview
With over 40 years of experience, Vieira de Almeida (VdA) is an international law firm noted for top-quality legal advice and cutting-edge innovation. A profound business know-how coupled with a highly specialised cross-sector legal practice enable the firm to effectively meet the increasingly complex challenges faced by clients. VdA offers robust solutions based on consistent standards of excellence, ethics and professionalism, and is acknowledged as a leading provider of legal services by the most reputed professional organisations, international publications and research institutions.
VdA has a highly specialized tax practice team with an in-depth knowledge of both the Portuguese and Portuguese speaking countries tax environment. The firm is known for playing the lead role in coordinating advisors in several jurisdictions thus providing clients with a full added-value service. The team advises both national and multinational economic groups, listed companies and other major corporations, financial institutions and investment funds operating in the Portuguese markets, including foundations and private equity investors and work closely with other practice areas across the firm, to offer efficient and creative tax solutions in all areas of business. VdA advises on tax optimization, international tax planning, tax structuring of mergers, spin-offs, acquisitions and restructurings, tax planning of financial transactions and products, property taxation and estate planning, fees, customs duties, value added tax and indirect taxes, tax disputes and litigation, and has a high degree of expertise in the field of transfer pricing – firm’s clients are major groups of companies operating in the local market.
For a comprehensive list of the services provided both internationally and in Portugal, please visit VdA’s website for more details: http://vda.pt/en