Activity Areas

The firm Rui Laureano – Advogados provides legal services in the many legal areas with special focus on:

Civil, Real Estate and Succession Law


  • Legal Assistance, negotiation, drawing up and formalization and interpretation of different civil contracts, its additions with the vicissitudes of alterations and extinction.
  • Promissory contracts for purchasing and selling of property, leasing and sharing agreements
  • Real Estate purchase and sale contracts
  • Urban leasing contracts for residential and non-residential purposes, with or without warranty
  • Rural leasing contracts
  • Rental or leasing of movable assets
  • Leasing of commercial property contracts
  • Leasing of commercial spaces in shopping centres contracts
  • Transfer of a commercial business contracts
  • Lending contracts
  • Building contracts and subcontracts
  • Service providing contracts
  • Sharing contracts
  • Donation contracts
  • Credit term contracts
  • Representation of non-residents in the purchasing of property

Family and Minor Law


  • Divorce by mutual consent
  • Contentious divorce or without the consent of one of the spouses
  • Post-divorce sharing
  • Licensing procedure in the practice of acts relating to minors
  • Regulation procedures in parental responsibilities
  • Procedures in child protection
  • Adoption
  • Procedures in the non-compliance of parental responsibilities
  • Special enforcements for alimony – debt collection for alimony claims 
  • Filling up and monitoring of legal procedures, intervention and representation in Court

Commercial Law


  • Incorporation of Commercial Companies, Consortium, Complementary Grouping of Companies, European Economic Interest Grouping (EEIG)
  • Fusion and acquisition of companies
  • Insolvency and recovery of companies
  • Commercial leasing contracts, factoring, franchising, long term rentals, agency, commercial concession, distribution, buying and selling, transportation and insurance
  • Trademarks, patents, intellectual and industrial property
  • Filling up and monitoring of legal procedures, intervention and representation in Court

Insolvency and Corporate Recovery


  • Insolvency of individual people
  • Insolvency and corporate recovery
  • Special procedures in corporate recovery (PER)
  • Special procedure in corporate recovery by extra-judicial means (SIREVE)
  • Recovery and credit claim in insolvency procedures and PER
  • Recovery of taxes relating to invoicing in debt and uncollectible credits 
  • Filling up and monitoring of legal procedures, intervention and representation in Court

Labour Law


  • Counselling in diverse labour matters, either legal and contratual previsions
  • Drawing up of different types of labour and service providing contracts
  • Temporary work labour contracts and for the use of temporary employee
  • Monitoring and instruction of disciplinary procedures
  • Agreements for the termination of labour contracts
  • Expiration of labour contracts
  • Dismissal for reasons attributable to the employee
  • Extinction of the work place
  • Collective dismissal
  • Dismissal on the grounds of inadaptability
  • Dismissal on the part of the employee
  • Challenging dismissals
  • Submission of labour credit claims in insolvency procedures
  • Collection of labour credits
  • Negotiation of collective contracting
  • Labour accidents and work related illness
  • Assistance in the acquisition and fusion of companies and business restructuring
  • Social security
  • Labour and of social security misdemeanours
  • Filling up and monitoring of legal procedures, intervention and representation in Court

Criminal Law


  • Criminal Litigation
  • Legal assistance to victims and injured because of criminal acts
  • Legal Assistance and the defence of the accused
  • Legal assistance to witnesses
  • Requests for civil indemnity
  • Misdemeanours 
  • Filling up and monitoring of legal procedures, intervention and representation in Court

Banking Law


  • Assistance to banking institutions and societies for financial leasing
  • Credit claims on behalf of banking institutions, societies of financial leasing and insurance companies
  • Negotiation and formalization of stand by letters of credit
  • Negotiation of contractual alteration regarding the non-compliance of credit contracts
  • Filling up and monitoring of legal procedures, intervention and representation in Court

Tax Law


  • Assistance in matters of Tax Law such as IRS, IRC, IVA, IMI, IMT, Stamp Duty tax, Vehicle tax and other taxes
  • Referrals and legal opinions on tax laws
  • Requests for binding information
  • Monitoring of procedures in the administrative phase (claims, hierarchical appeals, requests for reassessment, requests for refund) and tax related litigation (judicial challenging and appeals)
  • Tax foreclosures
  • Tax reversals against managers and directors of commercial companies
  • Tax misdemeanours
  • Filling up and monitoring of legal procedures, intervention and representation in Court

Administrative Law


  • Acquisition of citizenship and right of residence
  • Legal advice in different matters, namely licencing, Real Estate investment, urbanism, urban rehabilitation, environmental law and public tenders
  • Matters related to the public tender of the adjudication of supply and service contracts, in the following areas in particular: acquisition and leasing of goods, public works and construction
  • Advice related to public tenders and licensing promoted by local public administration, the drawing up of documents for public tenders
  • Administrative complaints related with matters of procedures of public tenders and public contracts
  • Administrative misdemeanours
  • Setting up and monitoring of legal proceeding, intervention and representation in Court

Administrative Misdemeanours


  • Tax and of Social Security misdemeanors
  • Labour misdemeanours
  • Misdemeanours related to road law
  • Misdemeanours related to environmental laws
  • Administrative misdemeanours 
  • Representation in the administrative phase and in the judicial phase in cases of administrative misdemeanours; representation in Court

Litigation


  • Setting up and monitoring of legal proceedings, intervention and representation in Court in all types of judicial proceedings and instances, in Portugal, related to: civil, real estate and succession law (sharing by death), family and minor (divorce, post-divorce sharing, parental responsibility proceedings, non-compliance of parental responsibilities, enforcement of alimony); insolvency of individual people and companies; recovery of companies and credit claims in insolvency proceedings and PER, challenging dismissal and recovery of labour credit; civil and criminal responsibility; tax foreclosures; administrative misdemeanours and others
  • Litigation of debt collection
  • Litigation of debt collection for large scale litigants (entities with over two hundred collection proceedings per year)
  • Litigation

Rui Laureano - Advogados

Rua Poeta Bocage, n.º 2 – 3.º C, Telheiras

1600 - 233 Lisboa |

Phones:

  • (+351) 218 206 610
  • (+351) 218 206 611
  • (+351) 218 206 612

Email: rl@ruilaureano.pt

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