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Sérvulo & Associados
“Opportunities don’t happen. You create them.”
Cathay Associates’ member in Lisbon, Sérvulo & Associados, brings together lawyers with a solid experience and a strong academic background in the areas of law that are fundamental to the success of business. As one of the leading law firms in Portugal, we advise clients from both the private and public sectors, be this at a national or international level, offering tailor-made solutions for Portuguese clients wanting to internationalize their business, and for foreign clients wanting to invest in Portugal or abroad, namely in other Lusophone countries.
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With a strong client portfolio including national and international clients from both the private and public sectors, Cathay Associates’ Portuguese member, Sérvulo & Associados, based in Lisbon, offers a one-stop-shop for comprehensive legal services touching a wide-range of legal and business issues concerning Portugal and other Lusophone jurisdictions. Cathay Associates’ Lisbon member provides a key point of contact which is able to act with local knowledge while at the same time connecting to the Cathay Associates global network, giving the necessary know-how on both ends of the venture. A leading law firm advising on all those practice areas that are essential to a strategic approach to business, we have a wide and deep sector knowledge that combines with top-range legislative and academic experience, thereby providing seamless and always up-to-date business development in Portugal and further afield.
With its tailor-made client-focused approach, Cathay Associates’ Lisbon firm has, since the very beginning, established itself as the go-to firm for solutions to the highly complex and relevant matters that national and international public and private entities face in their day-to-day business development or in extraordinary situations. We boast long-standing and broad experience and expertise in all those areas that are fundamental to helping clients achieve their goals.
Global reach:
Maintaining our position as an independent Portuguese law firm, we are capable of providing cross-border legal services through our membership of several global networks of law firms and partnerships with prominent law firms in the Autonomous Regions of Madeira and Azores and in key jurisdictions, such as Mozambique, Angola, Guinea-Bissau, Cape Verde, São Tomé and Príncipe, Brazil, Macao and East-Timor (SÉRVULO LATITUDE⦵).
A strategic business partner for companies and individuals wishing to invest in Portugal:
We have extensive experience in supporting and assisting companies and individuals wishing to invest in Portugal, advising them on the implementation of structures oriented towards the type of investment to be made, namely through the restructuring of existing corporate structures, the incorporation of new companies and the use of existing tax benefits in Portugal.
At the same time, we also have significant experience advising private clients on all aspects of their relocation to Portugal, including, in particular, advising on the purchase or lease of property, non-habitual residents regime (NHR), social security and public health service enrolment, among other essential aspects for those who decide to move to our country.
To provide a bespoke service to clients from various countries, we have created a set of Foreign Desks, made up of multidisciplinary teams of lawyers fluent in a variety of languages and operating in a logic of integrated services (full service).