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
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
Firm overview
Pérez-Llorca’s Lisbon office comprises a team of native lawyers who are registered in Portugal, Brazil, and Spain, and who have extensive experience in practising law in these countries as well as in other Portuguese-speaking countries (Angola, Cape Verde, Mozambique, and Brazil, among others), where they can provide legal advice to our clients on their most complex matters.
We provide our clients with a holistic approach, coordinating all matters and disputes that require work in Portuguese law, always offering the highest quality service for our clients in this country.
Our team’s in-depth knowledge allows us to offer services tailored to the needs of each client, in all types of matters in the different practice areas in which the firm operates: Corporate/M&A, Banking and Finance, Energy & Infrastructure, Employment, Real Estate, Private Equity, Tax and Regulatory.
From our offices in Portugal and Spain, we cover the entire Iberian Peninsula and build upon the synergies that arise in both countries to offer clients and potential clients comprehensive advice on their transactions and disputes.
Firm overview
KPMG is the leading Tax Firm in Portugal.
KPMG Portugal’s Tax team has been growing consistently throughout last decade, currently counting 310 professionals (193 female + 117 male).
Our professionals are specialized in several technical areas of practice and focused on delivering a full range of services: from Tax Advisory Services to Compliance and Risk assessment, Controversy, Employment & Mobility, M&A, Incentives or, more recently, Tax ESG, Governance and Technology.
Our teams operate in several lines of business, having achieved a remarkable position, working with the major players (local or global) but also with the middle market, aligned with KPMG’s strategy in Portugal.
All 310 professionals are deeply involved in maximizing value for the clients through a very challenging but decisive combination of a strong technical background, strict ethics and a clear problem-solving and result driven attitude.
KPMG Portugal is focused in transforming (tax) knowledge in value, supporting the set up or development of businesses while having the clients and capital markets in the center.
Because times are changing rapidly, a new are of practice has also been added, Tax Innovation, aiming to add a technological dimension and foster innovation both internally (resulting in a better user experience) and externally (with an increased offer to clients who KPMG Portugal may now help to rethink processes or governance of their own tax practices or introduce a technology layer).
It also should be stressed that each one of our 310 professionals is bound by the “Principles for a Responsible Tax Practice” of KPMG International, being required to “act lawfully and with integrity in dealing with tax authorities and our clients and we aim to be fully compliant with all relevant requirements”.