Legal expertise to meet any challenge

In today’s environment, companies and businesses are characterized by a higher degree of complexity than in previous times. At Proença de Carvalho we understand that change is a vital component in delivering specialised legal services that empower our clients to carry out structured investment and divestment operations in a legally efficient manner.

To this end, Proença de Carvalho relies on an experienced team with a close understanding of the market and the sector in which our clients operate. This ensures that contracts are negotiated, investments are structured and that detailed planning for the execution of business is carried out with the desired precision. We render integral advice to our clients, ensuring close collaboration across the firm’s various practice areas.
Proença de Carvalho’s team has extensive experience in advising national and international companies and investors, including operations in regulated markets.
To this effect, our team works closely with clients and is familiar with the full range of employment-related issues, advising on employment restructuring, spin-offs, business transfers, relocations, collective bargaining and employment litigation.

The team also provides immigration and visa assistance, including tax advice for foreign nationals wishing to work in Portugal.

Private Equity

With extensive experience in private equity operations, Proença de Carvalho’s team specialises in identifying, structuring and providing legal advice on investment and divestment operations for national and international funds, including fund incorporation. Our team also advises management companies, promotors and investors in this sector, enhancing business opportunities and generating value for clients.

Venture Capital

In the area of Venture Capital, Proença de Carvalho’s team has solid experience in advising entrepreneurs, companies, venture capital funds and business angels in a wide range of investments and phases involved (early stage, late stage, growth capital, buyout, mezzanine, debt, growth debt), providing assistance during the different investment rounds and advising in the negotiation of the contract package involved in the different types of transactions, whether investment or divestment.

At Proença de Carvalho, Tax Law and Restructuring is more than a specialisation: it is a commitment of trust with our clients, focused on the success and legal security of their business.

We understand that tax issues and corporate restructuring can be complex challenges, especially in a constantly changing tax environment. That is why we have a highly specialised team that is able to offer customised and integrated solutions, adapted to each client’s specific business needs.

Our main areas of expertise include tax advice on corporate reorganisations, including mergers and acquisitions (M&A), joint ventures and structured finance transactions.

We also provide tax advice on the management of personal and family assets, including succession planning, ensuring strategic and legally sound solutions.

At Proença de Carvalho, we believe that the employment relationships our clients establish are key to the success and sustainability of their organisation. That is why we believe that having a specialised service offer is not enough; it is essential to adapt our advice to the needs of each specific client and sector. To this effect, our team works closely with clients and is familiar with the full range of employment-related issues, advising on employment restructuring, spin-offs, business transfers, relocations, collective bargaining and employment litigation.

The team also provides immigration and visa assistance, including tax advice for foreign nationals wishing to work in Portugal.

With a preventive approach to dispute resolution, Proença de Carvalho has a team with consolidated experience who is prepared to support our clients, whether from a negotiation or litigation perspective.

We are dedicated to defending our clients’ interests and strive to offer a dispute resolution service based on an appropriate balance between litigation and the management of the associated risks.

Proença de Carvalho is prepared to assist our clients in resolving disputes arising from the most diverse areas of litigation, including in negotiation, arbitration or legal proceedings.

Our team is also widely recognised in the field of economic criminal litigation, including internal investigations, crisis management and compliance programs.

In the Real Estate and Urban Planning sector, we provide advice on every stage concerning the acquisition, sale, development and operation of commercial, residential and tourist real estate projects, as well as setting up investment funds and other collective investment organisations in real estate assets. Our team is prepared to deal with the regulatory and contractual complexities that inevitably accompany such investments and divestments. We ensure that each transaction or process is carried out in a planned, safe, efficient and solution-focused manner.

More than just offering a specialised service, at Proença de Carvalho we actively anticipate trends in the sector and are committed to adapting our clients’ interests to the current legal and commercial reality. We are committed to advising our clients on the most diverse investment operations, from the negotiation phase to the preparation and analysis of contracts. These operations involve not only the purchase and sale of real estate assets, but also sale and lease back operations, structuring of real estate derivatives and mergers and acquisitions. We accompany our clients throughout the dynamics of the investment and licensing process.

Trust is at the core of our practice and defines the character of our legal services. Proença de Carvalho has a team of professionals dedicated to advising its clients in the areas of asset monitoring and tax planning, preparation of succession plans, including wills and bequests, family and succession processes, management of assets and family businesses, as well as advising individual clients and family groups on the multiple challenges they may encounter, based on a strong interpersonal relationship.