Our work is carried out in contexts of high technical complexity and sophistication, covering various sectors of activity, from financial institutions and insurance companies to energy, retail, telecommunications, health, food and beverages, sport and real estate, granting us the required expertise and sophistication to design innovative tax strategies that create value for our clients.
We collaborate with several renowned international law firms, enabling a global and integrated approach to provide innovative tax services in an increasingly complex and sophisticated environment.
We manage our clients' tax risk, both in designing their tax policies and in defining the best strategies to address tax audits.
Our activity extends to the tax and succession planning of private clients, artists, sportspeople and investors, liaising with family offices and international law firms. We support our clients in the relocation of senior executives to Portugal, asset structuring and tax optimisation of their investments in full compliance with current legislation and the highest technical and ethical standards.
Our services
- National and EU Tax Litigation
- Customs Litigation
- Tax audits and inspections
- Criminal proceedings for tax fraud and crimes against Social Security
- Private Wealth, Tax and Succession Planning
- International tax planning and consulting
- Transfer Pricing
- Corporate restructurings
- Business Financing & Capitalisation Solutions
- Tax advice on direct and indirect taxes, fees and special contributions
- Definition of Tax policies and risk matrix
- Tax advice and representation before the Portuguese courts in several dozen tax cases related to the discrimination of EU resident pension funds.
- Advising several multinational companies in the sector of services to the oil industry in Angola, in various Angolan tax litigation proceedings, including customs proceedings, Stamp Duty, IRT, IPU, Consumption Tax, IAC, Industrial Tax, Property Tax.
- Representation before the Portuguese courts and the CAAD of several banking and insurance institutions in several IRC, VAT and IS proceedings.
- Current tax advice to the largest health plan management company in Portugal.
- Regular tax advice and representation before the Portuguese courts and the CAAD of a world-leading sports equipment company in several IRC and VAT proceedings;
- Current tax advice and representation before the Portuguese courts and the CAAD of a leading company in the telecommunications sector in several IRC, IRS, VAT proceedings and fees charged by the regulator ANACOM;
- Legal and tax advice, including the negotiation of MYBA contracts, to individual clients in the purchase and sale of various luxury pleasure boats.
- Tax advice on the restructuring of a multinational in the energy sector in Angola.
- Tax advice and support in representing a multinational world leader in the beverage and soft drinks sector in various tax proceedings, and preparation of transfer pricing dossiers in Cape Verde.
- Representation of an oil company before the Portuguese courts in several tax cases related to corporate income tax and VAT.
- Tax advice to a sponsor in a dam construction project in Mozambique, in an investment valued at around USD 4 billion.
- Tax advice to sponsors in Angola, including negotiation of an investment project, in the construction of a freight railway line, in an investment of about 250M USD.
- Tax advice on the structuring of investment in an amusement park and cable car on the island of Madeira.
- Tax advice, including negotiation of investment contract, to a company in the diamond sector in Angola.
- Regular tax advice and representation before the Portuguese courts in several tax proceedings of IRC, IS, withholding taxes, of a multinational in the private security sector.
- Tax advice on financing issues, structuring of cash pooling and lawsuits and before CAAD on IS issues, of a world-leading multinational in the infrastructure sector and concessions in the airport sector.
- Advising a family group Portuguese on the structuring of personal assets and tax and succession planning.
- Advising a German family group on the structuring of personal and business assets, and tax and succession planning.
- Advising a Portuguese group on an M&A transaction involving the purchase of a qualifying holding in a food and beverage group.
- Advising a Portuguese business group in the IT sector on defining and structuring the group and its international expansion.
- Representation before the Portuguese courts of ultra net worth individual in tax litigation on the importation of a luxury yacht valued at more than 40 million euros.
- Tax advice and collaboration with several international law firms based in Paris, London, Amsterdam, Johannesburg, several multinationals and individual clients in the structuring of investments in Portugal, Angola and Mozambique.
