Employment
Europe Guide 2024 : Portugal
Band 4
Contact number
+351 21 864 0000About
Provided by Linklaters
Linklaters is a worldwide leader in the employees’ benefits area and some of our biggest and most important clients have subsidiaries in Portugal. We develop high profile work on the most important areas of employment and we offer unique service in what refers to international corporate transactions, complex benefits structures and high level litigation cases.
Our employment practice in Lisbon concentrates its expertise in sophisticated work, that allows us to provide clients with experienced technical advice combined with an unique commercial approach and unusual efficiency. Clients rely on our commitment and innovative thinking in their most complex cases.
Recent market conditions also led us to develop a deep expertise in employment restructuring transactions, linked with insolvency or pre-insolvency situations, as well as closure and liquidation scenarios. Employment law is one of the fastest moving and most challenging areas of law.
A team of employment specialists is able to provide a full range of employment advice including:
- the impact of M&A transactions on the workforce; outsourcings across all degrees of complexity;
- downsizing and termination advice; design of complex benefit structures, combining employment, social security and tax advice;
- the full range of employment disputes, including post-termination and discrimination issues; and
- policy matters and general advisory work, including performance concerns, long-term absences, discrimination and policy issues.
Chambers Review
Linklaters is known for advising on the employment aspects of major corporate and M&A transactions, including assistance with transfers of undertakings and employee transfers as part of internal reorganisations. The law firm also advises on contentious mandates, further to acting on lay-off procedures and executive terminations. The team maintains a large roster of international clients as well as assisting key Portuguese corporates, working on several cross-border matters.
Work Highlights
- Linklaters assisted BNP Paribas with the employment law issues regarding its cross-border merger that involved a transfer of the client's Portuguese subsidiary business.
Strengths
Provided by Chambers
"The Linklaters' team is able to quickly understand the matter, address the topic, and deliver the complex legal opinion that is necessary."
"Its employment team is highly differentiated, with deep know-how of our sector, and we often entrust them with highly complex matters."
"The team has a remarkable ability to respond to issues, even if complex, with the necessary brevity for our operation, without neglecting the rigour in its analysis."
"The team is highly committed to the client's objectives and has a special sensitivity to commercial issues."
"The Linklaters' team is able to quickly understand the matter, address the topic, and deliver the complex legal opinion that is necessary."
"Its employment team is highly differentiated, with deep know-how of our sector, and we often entrust them with highly complex matters."
"The team has a remarkable ability to respond to issues, even if complex, with the necessary brevity for our operation, without neglecting the rigour in its analysis."
"The team is highly committed to the client's objectives and has a special sensitivity to commercial issues."
Notable Practitioners
Marta Afonso Pereira is proficient at advising on the employment aspects of transactional matters, handling lay-off procedures, termination agreements and employment litigation.
"She is a true partner of our organisation. We know we can rely on her advice and judgement."
"Marta is an excellent professional, both in answering the questions we ask with the breadth of her experience and points of view, as well as for the clarity of her speech and interaction with us."
"Marta is very available. When I call her she is open to give her first impression on matters."