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
The Garrigues Tax Department provides ongoing and bespoke advisory services on Portuguese and international taxation to Portuguese and foreign companies and to multinational groups and individuals.
Its umbrella structure, alongside the quality and experience of its team of professionals, means this practice is ideally placed to provide the solutions required by businesses today.
Firm overview
Building on the combined strengths of Deloitte Legal and TELLES, and drawing on a long standing market presence, Deloitte Legal TELLES is a leading law firm in Portugal. The firm combines international scale with strong local roots and a proven track record in advising on complex and high value legal matters.
Deloitte Legal TELLES advises domestic and international clients on strategic and often cross border transactions and disputes, supported by significant international exposure and a deep understanding of the Portuguese legal and regulatory framework.
The firm is recognised for its close and longstanding relationships with clients. Deloitte Legal TELLES works as a strategic legal partner, maintaining continuous engagement and developing a detailed understanding of each client’s business, sector and commercial objectives. This approach allows the firm to deliver pragmatic and tailored legal advice aligned with clients’ decision making processes and risk profiles.
A key feature of Deloitte Legal TELLES is its integrated and multidisciplinary operating model, combining legal expertise with tax, consulting, risk advisory and financial advisory capabilities. Technology plays a central role in legal service delivery, with the firm leveraging Deloitte’s legal technology platforms and data driven tools to enhance efficiency, consistency and insight, particularly in complex regulatory and transactional matters. This approach is especially relevant in areas such as corporate transactions, financial services regulation, ESG and sustainability, data and cybersecurity, workplace health and safety and strategic risk.
Through Deloitte Legal’s network, Deloitte Legal TELLES supports international clients investing and operating in Portugal and assists Portuguese clients across all major jurisdictions, providing coordinated legal advice in more than 150 countries
Firm overview
Morais Leitão is a leading full-service law firm in Portugal, with a solid background of decades of experience. Broadly recognised, the Firm is a reference in several branches and sectors of the law on national and international level.
At Morais Leitão we have a substantial team of tax lawyers with a relevant experience in this area. Our clients include some of the largest national and foreign corporate groups, operating in a wide range of sectors, including industry, services and telecommunications, banking and financial services, securities and real estate investment funds and private equity funds, as well as medium and small companies, public institutions, foundations, non-governmental social support organizations and private clients.
Alongside the tax litigation, we also ensure the best integrated tax advice in relation to the most diverse operations, seeking to complement the tax analysis with an approach to the different relevant areas of law. Our expertise comprises tax planning in corporate restructuring operations, research and development activities, mergers and acquisitions, public offerings, securitisation operations, structured finance operations, mortgage credit, debt issuance, derivatives, as well as specific tailored tax support within the scope of each client’s field of activity.
We also accompany inspection actions carried out by the Tax Authority, ensuring a thorough knowledge of the substantive law and a wide experience of legal assistance in the most diverse inspection procedures. In the area of tax litigation, we are proud on having a recognized team, which has sponsored some of the largest and most complex tax complaints and arbitration processes that have been trialed by our courts.
Due to its network of associations and alliances with local firms and the creation of the Morais Leitão Legal Circle in 2010, the firm can also offer support through offices in Angola (ALC Advogados), Cape Verde (VPQ Advogados), Mozambique (MDR Advogados) and Singapore.