Abreu Advogados

Firm Overview:

Abreu Advogados is a big four independent law firm with over 30 years of experience in the Portuguese market, navigating in tomorrow´s sectors and industries. As a full service law firm, Abreu is recognized as the 11th fastest growing Portuguese firm by The Lawyer Euro 100, with 51% growth in 5 years.

With offices in Lisbon, Porto and Funchal, Abreu has provided highly effective solutions in areas such as Corporate/M&A, Tax, Litigation and Competition. The team holds a high degree of specialization in key industries for the Portuguese and African economies, such as Energy and Natural Resources, Real Estate, Banking, Technology, Life Sciences, Projects, Tourism and Hospitality.

Its clients consistently choose the firm to seize growth opportunities and to assist on increasingly complex international transactions whilst working with the most prestigious law firms in the world.

The private clients & family business at Abreu Advogados is the only team at a mid-large size law firm in Portugal with multidisciplinary lawyers fully dedicated to private clients, family offices and family businesses, as autonomous practice. The team has extensive experience in advising individuals, family offices, and family businesses both on the financial and personal aspects, having a reputation for their expertise in handling wealth planning, cross-border estate cases and litigation, relocations, combining international, inheritance and personal tax, matrimonial, succession law, life insurance, AML compliance and more recently reputation management expertise in the same team.

With a consistent response to the markets’ demands, the team is widely recognised by its clients and peers due to its 360 degrees approach to private clients’ legal needs, international memberships and recognitions with the wider private wealth industry, background training and practice in cross-border tax and family business matters. Extremely competitive and creative, Abreu Advogados is one of the most active firms assisting high net-worth families in business restructurings, transfer of wealth between generations and businesses family governance. The ability to offer the exclusive service of a boutique firm with the support and security of a full-service law firm, Abreu’s private clients team assists on every matter that comes across with.

Private Clients Team:

The firm’s private clients team is experienced in several areas of the law, assisting their clients in connection to several matters, with particular emphasis on:

· asset management, planning and structuring of investments;

· transfer of family businesses across generations, including trusts and asset structuring;

· structuring family governance rules, including execution of family protocols and related documentation;

· advice on tax structuring;

· legal and family matters, including pre-nuptial agreements and property regimes, divorce and regulation of parental responsibilities, succession planning and disputes between family members with regard to family businesses;

· nationality (interfacing with the Firm's Immigration Sector);

· family regrouping.

These matters often become more complex when they are of an international nature, which involves determining which are the jurisdictions and respective internationally competent courts and applicable laws, European and non-European. Abreu Advogados is an associate member of the Associação das Empresas Familiares (Association of Family Businesses).