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Services
We work in an integrated way across our practice areas, regions and industries to meet our clients' needs.
Areas of practice
The Corporate and Commercial practice of Antas da Cunha Ecija & Associados is considered a practice of excellence in the Portuguese market, providing daily support to companies and being prepared for the most complex corporate transactions.
The team of this practice is prepared to provide support and accompaniment in the most diverse corporate and commercial transactions, in particular the incorporation and transformation of any type of company; mergers and acquisitions (M&A); corporate governance (corporate governance system); shareholders' agreements; insolvency and dissolution and liquidation of companies.
The litigation team at Antas da Cunha Ecija & Associados deals with litigation related to the most diverse branches of law, providing legal assistance not only in court litigation, but also in the pre-litigation phase, in which, together with the client, it determines and defines the best procedural strategy to adopt, identifying the risks and advantages of each specific case presented to it.
In this regard, the firm has not only the experience and prestige of its lawyers, but also the academic curriculum of the team that makes up this practice area, which is directly related to procedural practice, which is the basis of any litigation.
The Criminal, Misdemeanor and Compliance Practice Area is made up of a highly specialised team, recognised for its experience in monitoring the most complex national and mediatic proceedings.
The team has acted in various areas of criminal law, from traditional crimes to new areas of punitive law, such as tax and social security criminal law, money laundering, corruption, market protection and cybercrime.
In the regulatory field, the team has participated in the defence of high-profile administrative proceedings, also providing preventive advice to its clients, in particular in the areas of financial, capital markets, pharmaceutical, environmental, real estate and economic law.
The team has consolidated experience in the provision of compliance services, particularly in the field of prevention of corruption, money laundering and terrorist financing, offering its clients audit services for the detection of potential contingencies and subsequent corrective and best practice compliance advice, as well as training, assistance to the compliance officer and adaptation of international models to Portuguese law.
Given that the company plays a predominant role in the day-to-day support of companies, this department is of fundamental importance, as our clients have at their disposal a daily monitoring of the hiring, drafting and termination of employment contracts.
Given the current reality of the country and of companies, the Antas da Cunha Ecija & Associados labour team has successfully provided advice on the restructuring of companies.
This department also has extensive experience in resolving labour disputes before the courts.
The TMT (Technology, Media and Telecommunications) area has experienced strong growth at Antas da Cunha Ecija & Associados and is now an essential pillar in almost every business.
The area is divided into four distinct areas: Privacy and Cybersecurity, Intellectual Property, Digital Economy and Technology Transactions.
Taking into account the reality of the real estate sector in Portugal, Antas da Cunha Ecija & Associados provides legal advice on a wide range of real estate transactions.
In addition, it assists its clients in the areas of real estate financing, licensing and any other area necessary for the proper management of the projects conceived by its clients, as well as in the conclusion and execution of leasing contracts for residential and commercial purposes.
In the area of projects, the company has extensive experience in structuring real estate transactions, conducting due diligence and setting up special vehicles for real estate investment.
Antas da Cunha Ecija & Associados has extensive experience in the area of private clients, an area that has become increasingly important.
We have teams specialised in obtaining Golden Visas, family and succession issues, family offices, corporate governance in family businesses, accompaniment of non-residents, non-habitual residents and all matters of a tax and property nature.
The practice area is composed of professionals with extensive experience in all legal aspects relevant to Portuguese and international credit institutions and financial companies operating in Portugal.
From their incorporation process to the structuring and launch of new financial products and services, including day-to-day regulatory and corporate responsibility advice (including ESG). We structure and draft all legal documentation for retail and investment banking.
Antas da Cunha Ecija & Associados guarantees legal advice prepared for all issues arising in the various areas of Public Law, particularly in Administrative Law, Public Procurement and Urban Planning.
The services provided by the lawyers in this department include support in matters related to the civil liability of the State and other public entities; the monitoring of tenders and other pre-contractual procedures in the field of public procurement; the interpretation and drafting of administrative contracts; and the monitoring of administrative litigation.
Antas da Cunha Ecija's Tax Department provides a complete tax advisory service, working in close collaboration with the rest of the company's departments, so that tax issues are not neglected in the strategies defined for the projects developed.
The various services provided include support in corporate restructuring projects, tax litigation, tax optimisation associated with the taxation of individuals and companies and tax planning in national and international operations.
The Sports, Fashion and Entertainment Practice Area of Antas da Cunha Ecija & Associados is considered innovative, differentiating and of excellence in the Portuguese and international market, focusing on transversal, innovative and specialised legal advice for celebrities, companies and organisations that are part of the sports, fashion and entertainment industries. All of this, following a family office logic, but within a global, innovative and highly technological law firm.
With more than 30 years of experience in insurance law in Portugal, Antas da Cunha Ecija's new practice area, advised by teams of doctors, investigators and accident dynamics engineers throughout the country, deals with legal issues related to indemnity law, insurance contracts, litigation, regularisation of traffic accidents and accidents at work, and legal matters specific to civil liability, in particular product liability, environmental civil liability, professional civil liability and operating civil liability.
Antas da Cunha Ecija & Associados' Family and Inheritance and Family Business team provides legal advice to private clients, mainly in the areas of Family Law, Children's Law and Inheritance Law, and in the area of legal persons, to exclusively family companies.
We provide ongoing, practical and business-oriented advice to the pharmaceutical, biotechnology, medical device, digital health, pharma, private healthcare units, investors and associations operating in the healthcare sector.
We have a team of lawyers specialised in the areas of regulation, intellectual property, pharmaceutical law, competition, regulatory compliance, technology and data protection, as well as in cross-cutting legal areas such as corporate, commercial, tax and labour law, which allows us to accompany our clients in all phases of the development of their activity, anticipating risks and building solutions.
It is worth highlighting our in-depth knowledge of the activities and agents operating in the health sector, our extensive experience in multi-jurisdictional litigation, in patent and regulatory law, in the performance and relationship with national and European regulatory authorities, in the field of activity licensing, market access, authorisations for the introduction of medicines into the market, export and import of medicines, pricing and co-payment, distribution, commercial policies, advertising, data protection and civil liability of the manufacturer and distributor.
Our knowledge of international and EU law, as well as our international experience in coordinating international teams of lawyers in industrial transactions, both in-house and as counsel, are crucial to the defence of our clients' interests.
The EU Law, Competition and Foreign Investment team of Antas da Cunha Ecija & Associados provides legal advice to clients on matters relating to EU law, competition law, fundamental rights and foreign investment, and represents clients in administrative, judicial and arbitration proceedings before the European Commission, the Competition Authority, the Court of Justice of the European Union, the European Court of Human Rights and national courts, as well as individuals, companies and organisations wishing to enforce their fundamental rights.
Desks
Globalisation has boosted immigration processes worldwide, but the laws and directives of each country are constantly evolving and changing, which requires an individualised approach and analysis of each process and each client in particular, making the need for specialised assistance in the monitoring of the processes of obtaining and renewing visas and residence permits, as well as in the processes of acquiring nationality, absolutely essential.
Portugal currently offers particularly favourable and attractive fiscal and legal conditions for the establishment of foreigners in our country, which may be for tourism, business and investment, education, work, family origins or research, including programmes such as the Non-Habitual Resident Status, "Golden Visa" or D7 Visa, which naturally require the advice and accompaniment of specialised professionals, in order to provide clients with all the necessary legal security and transversal to their personal and patrimonial characteristics and expectations.
Due to its international experience and performance, Antas da Cunha Ecija is qualified and equipped with the necessary human and material resources to carry out immigration processes to Portugal, as well as processes to obtain Portuguese citizenship, enjoying extensive experience and success in the conclusion of the same, offering a specialised and personalised service and monitoring to each of its clients, both during the structuring and determination of the procedure and/or investment to be followed, as well as during the implementation of the same.
Antas da Cunha Ecija's French-speaking team offers French-speaking individuals, companies and associations a complete legal service in their mother tongue, in all areas of law.
Thanks to its empirical knowledge of the customs and administrative formalities of each French-speaking client's country of origin, the team is able to offer a personalised and comprehensive follow-up, always paying meticulous attention to the client's global needs.
Its expertise in the field of Portuguese law, combined with communication without language barriers, allows for effective results, enhanced by close collaboration with the different practice areas of AdCE, in order to offer personalised advice without neglecting the specificities of each area of law.
The German Desk in Antas da Cunha understands the importance of creating a relationship of proximity with all those who interact with it and without language barriers.
Our team is composed of people who have a Deutsches Abitur and therefore speak and understand German without difficulty.
All matters entrusted to German Desk will be coordinated with specialised practice areas to guarantee the best support for individuals and companies wishing to operate on the Portuguese market in their own language, or for individuals and companies wishing to be present on the German market.