Real Estate Investments.
Our office serves the needs of real estate investment clients within the Algarve community. Our clients include first and second-home buyers/sellers, investors, businesses, developers, landlords, tenants and real-estate holding companies.
We are specialized in real estate projects, involving namely: Sale and purchase; Promissory contracts; Provisory and definitive land registers; Construction; Environmental concerns; Historic preservation; Land use; Licensing; Permitting; Mortgages; Public utility easements; Leasing agreements; Rental contracts; Donations.
Our expertise in real estate development greatly facilitates an efficient accomplishment of our clients goals, seeking to invest in distressed real estate projects or companies.
We are specially proud of our professional relationship with leading industry consultants, brokers, investment bankers, lenders and other attorneys.
Corporate.
We set up Portuguese companies, for national and foreign clients.There are no limitations to the participation of foreigners or foreign companies in Portuguese companies.
We also act for our clients, namely, in all the following matters: preparation of text minutes; shares purchase agreements; change of the company articles of association; change of name and head-office; transformation and dissolution of companies.
Probate and Wills.
When you purchase a property in Portugal in your own name, it is strongly recommended you prepare a will for your Portuguese assets since it makes the process much easier for whoever will inherit the property.
This does not affect your will in your country of domicile but the costs of having it recognized in Portugal will be far greater than making a Portuguese Will.
The common type of will is signed at a Notary, in a presence of two witnesses, and is strictly private and confidential.
Furthermore, as an incentive for residents and non-residents, there is no Inheritance Tax for spouse, children or parents inheriting property.
Our fees will include: Will preparation; Providing an interpreter; Providing 2 necessary witnesses; Trips to the notary; Translation of the Portuguese version into English.
Family law
We appreciate your desire to control costs while receiving the very finest legal support. For this reason, we do not confine our thinking to normal channels of dispute resolution but look for creative solutions whenever possible. This can include mediation, arbitration, and conciliation, which can often resolve conflicts in less time and at less cost.
We deal, namely, with the following processes:
• Divorces • Separation of persons and/or assets • Custody rights.
Notary type acts.
In order to be as responsive as possible to your need for accessible communication and cost control, each file is assigned to one lawyer. It is this person's responsibility to understand your business, know the status of your matter, notify you of any significant change, make sure the work the office performs is done in the most efficient and cost effective manner. When appropriate, we also seek associate attorneys and paraprofessionals to permit lower billing rates for certain kinds of work.
Some of our services: • Signatures recognition in all types of contract (namely promissory ones) • Documents certification • Translations (including certification) • Affidavits • Land registry acts • Completion deeds (purchase and sale, donation, mortgage, loan, etc.)