The global market has brought new opportunities, but also new challenges to national and multinational companies, and an increased degree of contractual and organisational complexity.

The growing need to address issues related to social responsibility, ethics, and consumer rights; the need to implement corporate governance mechanisms alongside organisational optimisation, with specific concerns for reputation, cost rationalisation, and reducing the likelihood of conflicts, requires technically sound but highly practical responses.

It is one of the areas of activity that has accompanied the growth and maturation process of Solicitor Catarina S. Gomes.

In this area, we have a team of lawyers in Braga with experience in diverse, highly complex cases.

We have experience in drafting and negotiating a wide variety of contractual instruments, namely, business cooperation agreements, such as distribution agreements (agency, commercial concession and franchise), joint venture agreements, works contracts and other service agreements, real estate agreements (e.g. sale and purchase, lease, tourist exploitation) and commercial establishment agreements (e.g. business transfer, concession of operation).

HIGHLIGHTS

Within this area of practice, we provide the following legal services, by way of example:

• General advice

• Advice on the incorporation of commercial companies: Public Limited Companies (S.A.), Private Limited Companies (Sociedades por Quotas); Single-member Private Limited Companies (Sociedades Unipessoais por Quotas); Civil Companies
• Advisory on the alteration of articles of association, restructuring operations, and dissolutions and liquidations of companies
• Legal advice on the assignment of quotas or shares, amendment of articles of association, demerger, merger or transformation, and other company-related acts.
• Drafting of ancillary agreements
• Follow-up and formalisation of General Meeting minutes
• Legal support on corporate governance and compliance mechanisms
• Commercial litigation, including the recovery of debts, whether titled or not
• Exercise of the functions of a company secretary
• Complementary business groupings
• Rights, obligations, and responsibilities of partners/shareholders and managers/directors
• Commercial records
• Drafting commercial contracts, such as transfers of business, assignments of commercial exploitation rights, agency agreements, concession agreements, charterparty agreements, transport agreements, consortium agreements, profit-sharing agreements, franchise agreements, commercial leases, works contracts, and mandates, etc.
• Insolvency and business recovery

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Other areas of work:

• Employment Law
• Data Protection | GDPR
• Family and Succession Law
• Commercial and Corporate Law