PMCG is a Portuguese business law firm. From our offices in Lisbon and Porto, we advise companies, entrepreneurs and investors — Portuguese and international — on the matters that bear directly on their business: commercial litigation and arbitration, insolvency and restructuring, corporate transactions and M&A, distribution and international contracts, and compliance.
Matters are led by the partners. The firm works across borders and belongs to international professional networks.
Commercial and corporate litigation, contractual liability, banking liability and fraud, judicial debt recovery, and domestic and international arbitration.
→Insolvency, PER, RERE and PEAP, distressed assets, creditor representation and cross-border matters. We are members of INSOL Europe.
→Acquisitions and disposals, group reorganisations, foreign investment in Portugal and commercial contracts.
→International commercial contracts: network structuring, termination and goodwill compensation, and the disputes that follow.
→Compliance programmes, corporate governance, anti-money laundering, whistleblowing channels and internal investigations.
→Employment · Public & Regulatory · Tax · Intellectual Property.
We advise foreign companies and law firms on Portuguese law, in coordination with the team already advising the client. We work in Portuguese and English — and, where a matter so requires, in German.
International Counsel Desk →Practical analysis of the matters that shape business decisions in Portugal — disputes, insolvency and restructuring, M&A and investment, international contracts and compliance.
PMCG belongs to international professional networks that support its cross-border work and the representation, in Portugal, of clients of peer firms abroad. Among them are the UIA — Union Internationale des Avocats, INSOL Europe and the IBA — International Bar Association, alongside other networks of peer firms in Europe and beyond.