Corporate and M&A

With an experienced and multidisciplinary team, Enes | Cabral provides business legal advisory services to each of its clients. This area of activity consists in the accompanying the day-to-day business affairs of companies and organisations, ensuring practical, efficient and timely solutions in the following areas of law:

• Corporate;
• Commercial;
• Labour;
• Tax;
• Real Estate;
• Public Procurement;
• Intellectual Property;
• Personal Data.

The Corporate and M&A practice is one of the main areas of Enes | Cabral, encompassing legal advice in several operations:

• Incorporation of companies and vehicles;
• Processes for buying and selling companies and assets;
• Legal due diligence processes;
• Definition of structures and agreements at shareholder relationship level;
• Definition of guarantee packages;
• Structuring and setting up management companies and venture capital funds;
• Investment and divestment operations in their most varied forms.

In this area, and always aiming to find the most adequate solution for each concrete case, the legal advice of Enes | Cabral involves:

• Representation in insolvency and corporate recovery procedures;
• Advice on negotiations with investors and creditors;
• Accompanying the drafting of restructuring and recovery plans;
• Conducting individual dismissal procedures (including accompanying disciplinary procedures) and collective dismissals;
• Advising on corporate transformations, de-mergers, mergers and dissolutions.

Enes | Cabral provides legal advice services to foreign investors wishing to develop an activity, invest in Portugal or create ties with our country, including advice on:

• Integrated assistance to foreign clients in the structuring and implementation of investment strategies in Portugal;
• Temporary and permanent residence permit processes, in particular in the instruction of Golden Visa applications;
• Tax advice, namely in obtaining the status of Non Habitual Resident (NHR);
• Nationality procedures, in their various forms.

Litigation & Arbitration is another key area of activity of Enes | Cabral, including advice on the following situations and disputes:

• Advice at the negotiation and pre-litigation stage;
• National and international commercial arbitration;
• Corporate litigation concerning control of companies, disputes involving mergers and acquisitions, protection of shareholders, challenge and suspension of corporate resolutions, liability of directors, provision of accounts and information, as well as shareholders' agreements;
• Contract litigation in various areas of activity and involving various types of contract such as concession, distribution, provision of services, works, insurance or transport;
• Popular and collective actions.