MFA Legal

Managing Partner: Samuel Fernandes de Almeida

Senior Partner: João Medeiros

Number of partners: 3

MFA legal is a new Portuguese player in the Portuguese market, a boutique focused on tax, white collar and risk management, combining the unique experience of a very senior team with relevant track record in tax advice and litigation, economic criminal law and compliance.

MFA’s tax team has more than two decades of experience, advising in Portugal and African Portuguese-speaking countries, to large business groups, multinationals, SMEs, to HNWI and family businesses, representing clients in complex matters and cases in the energy sector, financial and insurance, telecom, investment funds, distribution, health sector and investment funds. Proximity, seniority, innovation and excellence are the key drivers for designing value-creating tax strategies for our clients in an environment of high complexity and sophistication. Our tax team has also a significant track record in tax litigation and arbitration, representing clients in more than two hundred tax cases of high complexity and value, including at the CJEU.

With great seniority, MFA's Criminal, Misdemeanour and Compliance team has extensive experience in conducting criminal proceedings, with a greater focus on the field of economic and financial crime, and its members, over the years, have actively participated in the most complex criminal proceedings that have unfolded in the Portuguese judicial landscape.

In addition to the criminal justice aspect and following the trend of sanctioning growth resulting from regulatory infractions, MFA's Criminal, Misdemeanour and Compliance team also accumulates great experience and specialization in the monitoring of administrative offence proceedings, both in the administrative phase and in its jurisdictional aspect.

From a preventive perspective, MFA's Criminal, Misdemeanour and Compliance team has a great tradition in the field of advising companies and organizations, participating in committed and active participation in processes to reduce exposure to risk, suggesting, for this purpose, the implementation and monitoring of compliance programs , in the dual aspect of helping companies and organizations to create the instruments and mechanisms necessary to comply with legal and regulatory obligations, and in the implementation of concrete practices that contribute to an effective reduction of exposure to the risks of business activity.

MFA legal is located in Lisbon, Portugal:

Avenida da Liberdade, 212 - SL Direito

1250-147 Lisboa

Portugal

[email protected]

(+351) 211 372 676