Legal Areas

• We advise private clients and companies in litigation situations.

• We seek quick and effective solutions in civil and administrative litigation, as well as alternative means of conflict resolution, such as commercial arbitration.

• Our team of lawyers has extensive experience in dispute resolution and has handled more than 22,000 disputes in court, representing national and international clients.

• We have in-depth knowledge of the property sector, which enables us to advise our clients on a wide range of property transactions We are able to provide legal advice on a wide range of issues such as negotiating and concluding property contracts, including reservation contracts, promissory purchase and sale contracts, deeds of purchase and sale, as well as leasing and rental operations, contracts for the use of shops in shopping centres, works contracts, the regularisation of the registration status of properties, the conduct of allotment, reparcelling and reparcelling processes, horizontal properties and condominium regulations.

• We also monitor legal actions and litigation related to real estate (demarcation, eviction, construction defects, etc.).

• We advise on property transactions and provide a transversal consultancy service to property developers.

• We provide advice on procedures for granting nationality and residence permits in Portugal.

• We advise on immigration, intervening in all stages of the process to reside in Portugal, namely for work, entrepreneurship, investment and retirement purposes. We specialise in administrative litigation in immigration matters for the purposes of granting residence permits and challenging administrative decisions in this area.

Our team includes lawyers with extensive knowledge of sports law and experience in advising athletes, coaches, agents, clubs and other professional football organisations.

Our experience essentially covers

• Intermediation and signing of sports labour contracts;
• Intermediation and signing of representation contracts between football intermediaries and sports agents, whether professional football players, football coaches or national or foreign sports companies;
• Intermediation and conclusion of contracts for the transfer of sporting and economic rights (commonly known as transfer contracts) of professional football players;
• Sports litigation before national and international bodies (FIFA and TAS/CAS);
• Setting up and transforming sports companies, as well as providing legal advice within them.

• We provide advice in the field of public procurement, specifically in the context of national and international tenders, , in contract formation processes, both in setting up procedures and in defending the interests of private competitors.

• Araújo & Associados has lawyers specialising in various areas of administrative law, providing advice on litigation and conducting administrative procedures with the various sectors of the Administration.

• We provide advice on the control of urban planning operations and economic activities and on the respective control procedures (prior and successive) or regularisation and on licensing, urbanisation and building.

• We provide legal advice in the field of commercial and corporate law, on matters such as the incorporation, merger, spin-off and transformation of companies or firms, the transfer of shareholdings and assets, joint ventures and support for the implementation of investment and internationalisation projects.

• We advise companies on the management of corporate operations in matters such as capital increases, amendments to articles of association, shareholders’ agreements, commercial registration in all areas relevant to commercial companies.

• We are the legal partner of individuals and companies from multiple sectors of activity, both national and international, providing advice on tax, investment, financing and tax litigation.

We advise our clients on issues related to intellectual and industrial property rights and copyright, in particular:

• Monitoring trade mark and patent applications and product and service innovation strategies;
• Negotiation and drafting of contracts relating to industrial property titles, in particular licence agreements and transfer of rights;
• Legal protection under trade mark, patent and industrial design law;
• Judicial and arbitral litigation in intellectual property matters.

With a solid knowledge of labour law, our lawyers are able to advise people and companies on labour relations and human resources.

We essentially provide the following legal services:

• Consultancy, monitoring and efficient management of labour relations;
• Preparation and drafting of employment contracts;
• Disciplinary proceedings and human resources restructuring;
• Transfer of company or establishment;
• Opinions on labour situations;
• Labour litigation, including labour offences.

• We provide specialised advice on labour matters related to public employment, in the various sectors of central and local public administration, public companies and special civil service careers.

Our lawyers have extensive experience in assisting private and corporate clients with debt and credit recovery matters, in particular:

• Judicial and extrajudicial endeavours to collect debts;
• Renegotiation of liabilities;
• Management of agreements to settle debts owed to companies and individuals.
• Insolvency.

• At Araújo & Associados, we provide advice on all types of administrative offences, including tax, social security, labour, environmental and road traffic offences, in administrative and litigation proceedings.

• Our team of lawyers deals with processes such as deeds equivalent to property deeds, recognizing signatures, certifying photocopies and authenticating powers of attorney, among many others.