Comercial, Societario y M&A – Portugal

Commercial, Corporate, M&A - Portugal

Our team has extensive experience in negotiating and drafting national and international contracts, including distribution, franchising, agency, supply, construction, and service agreements, among many others. We also provide advice on the interpretation and application of international commercial agreements and on interactions with regulatory entities in Portugal and the European Union, ensuring regulatory compliance and risk mitigation.

We support our clients from company formation to dissolution, providing legal advice on all corporate formalities and strategies. We handle corporate restructurings, mergers and acquisitions (M&A), demergers, transformations, joint ventures, and asset transfers, ensuring legal certainty and compliance in every transaction.

We also assist with corporate disputes, challenges to corporate resolutions, and directors’ liability, as well as the implementation of Corporate Governance and Compliance best practices.

Our services include conducting legal audits (Due Diligence) in strategic transactions, ensuring thorough risk and opportunity assessment.

With a cross-disciplinary and integrated approach, we deliver tailored legal solutions, adapted to the reality and specific needs of each client, supporting both national and international companies in their growth and development.

Specialties

Commercial
Corporate and M&A

Drafting and negotiation of contracts: purchase and sale, construction, lease, service provision, agency, franchise, distribution, joint ventures, among others.
Negotiation and formalization of strategic partnership agreements;
Drafting of international contracts;
Preparation of comfort letters;
Establishment of security instruments: mortgage, pledge, surety, guarantee, assignment of income.

Incorporation, transformation and dissolution of companies.
Formalization of corporate documents: articles of association, shareholders’ agreements, minutes, parasocial agreements, share register books; registrations, UBO Register (RCBE), among others.
Corporate changes: name, registered office, corporate purpose, share capital, shareholders, directors and managers, among others.
Mergers, demergers, acquisitions and corporate restructurings.
Transfer of assets.
Due Diligence: risk assessment, identification of hidden assets and liabilities, contingencies and contractual risks.
Cross-border transformation of companies.
Investment and financing agreements.
Legal advice on capital increases, investor entry and investment structuring.
Drafting of investment agreements, shareholders’ agreements and MoUs (memoranda of understanding);
Corporate governance and compliance.