Services

CIVIL LAW

Civil Law is an area in which PGP has extensive experience, whether in Consultation or Legal Advice, or in Pre-Litigation and Litigation procedures.
In this general area, it is particularly important to provide services in Private Law Contracts, Civil, disputes in particular Road Accidents, Tenancy, Real Rights, Consumer Rights and general civil litigation.

COMERCIAL LAW

PGP has proven experience in this area of law.
The monitoring of companies is one of the key activities of our office, based on the provision of advisory services in various sectors and companies' lives, namely:

• • Setting up Commercial Companies;

• • Amendments to articles within Company Regulations and the preparation of shareholder agreements;

• • Follow-up, leading and formalisation of General Meetings and executive director and board;

• • Mergers, acquisitions, spin-offs, as well as corporate restructurings;

• • Corporate restructuring, business expansion and investment;

• • Monitoring of corporate daily development;

• • Shareholders and managers/ directors rights, obligations and liabilities;

• • Acquisition and disposals of company shares and business assets;
  • Corporate reorganisation;

• • Client advice and assistance in commercial litigation.

FAMILY LAW, CHILDREN AND WILLS

PGP provides preventive and litigation services in Family Law, Children and Wills matters, either through sponsorship and follow-up of lawsuits, or through pre-litigation negotiations.

Law services in such area, include:

• Divorce, Breakdown of relationship, Property issues
• Nullity and annulment of marriage.
• Sharing of goods.
• Rights of Children.
• Paternity testing.
• Interdiction or Disqualification Act.
• Wills and grants.

TAX LAW

PGPprovides services in the area of tax law, particularly regarding the procedure and tax litigation, monitoring and customer sponsoring in relation to disputes between them and tax authorities.

At present, specialized legal and tax advice plays a key role in decision making in today’s demanding market. Businesses must deal with direct or indirect tax implications, which require efficient legal-fiscal treatment, in order to reduce future liabilities.

In this sense, PGPprovides strategic advice at each operational step on all relevant aspects of taxation. Consultancy covers a broad spectrum of tax matters, including:

• Assistance in the tax procedure and tax litigation;
• Advice on business tax planning:
• Advice on corporate and company restructuring:
• Tax complaints, impugnments and objections.

CRIMINAL LAW AND REGULATORY DISPUTE

PGPhas extensive experience in criminal law and Criminal Regulatory Disputes, developing its legal advice activity and legal representation in all criminal and administrative proceedings, not only in relation to traditional crimes as presented in Penal Code, but also in such fields as Business and Tax Criminal Law, among others:

• Legal assistance and support to clients during all the criminal process: investigation; instruction; lawsuit; penalty.
• To stand for defendants in a judicial inquiry into allegations by the Public Prosecutor's Office, criminal police agencies and Criminal Investigation Judge;
• Criminal complaints, constitution as assistant; representation of victims;
• Criminal liability of companies and other legal persons and their representation;
• Appeals from judicial decisions;
• Compensation claims;
• Fundamental Rights and Constitutional Law;
• Tax Criminal Law;
• Administrative, road, labor, tax and environmental regulatory disputes.

PUBLIC and ADMINISTRATIVE LAW

PGP provides advisory services to clients in what deals to form and execute public contracts, namely:

• Assistance and administrative law litigation
• Advice to clients in order to prepare proposals or parts of proposals;
• Negotiation with the contracting entity in direct agreement procedures;
• Pre-hearing pronunciations;
• Preparation of administrative impugnament;
• Client Advice during contract term;
• Client representation in court.

EMPLOYEES RIGHTS

PGP has extensive experience in all aspects of Labor Law and related areas, both from the point of view of employees and employers.

The need for a proper and effective labor relations management between employers and employees has to be made in order to optimize and rationalize human resources and to ensure the competitiveness of companies.

Among the services provided are:

• Legal support in company restructuring processes;
• Labor audits;
• Setting up individual employment contracts, temporary employment contracts;
• Support in the management of employment contracts;
• Administrative and court advice and support in work accidents;
• Follow-up and instruct disciplinary proceedings;
• Representation of employees in labour actions and work accidents.

INSOLVENCY AND CREDIT RECOVERY

PGP has extensive experience in all common or alternative means of receiverships, monitoring different proceedings (personal or accounting) leading to insolvency or collective or individual credit recovery.

In what deals to Credit Recovery, we give high importance to debt negotiation in pre-litigation process before lawsuit, using coercive means whenever necessary to protect the interests of creditors rights on insolvency.

We provide a personalized service, not only in the preparation and monitoring of different mechanisms, procedures, personal and accounting, necessary for insolvency or recovery of companies or individual persons, but also assuring an intervening role in the protection and defence of clients’ claims within standard proceedings (PER, SIREVE, PERSI and PARI).

We highlight the following services:

• Recovery and credit restructuring, instructions, declarations and executive actions;
• Insolvency proceedings and business recovery;
• Credit Claims;
• Execution of national and international lawsuits;
• Execution of credit guarantees (pledge, mortgage, surety, bank guarantee, promissory notes, checks);
• Recognition of foreign judgments.

INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY AND DATA PROTECTION

We advise companies and individuals in the defense of copyright, brand creativity and logos advising on all matters of intellectual and industrial property, including:

• Trademarks, patents, industrial designs, logos, commercial firms and social denominations;
• Copyright and protection of confidential data and software, in particular to comply with the European Data Protection Regulation;
• Registration of rights (national, communitarian or international);
• Judicial sponsorship in processes related to the defense of clients' rights in this area.

REGISTERS AND NOTARY

Since 2008, Lawyers have been authorized to practice notaries' acts. PGP also provides advice in such law field, individuals and companies, in order to ensure full satisfaction of interests to our customers, especially to ensure the safety and legal certainty for doing business .

We highlight:

• Authentication of documents;
• Recognition of signatures;
• Certification of photocopies and other documents;
• Certification of translations;
• Letter of Attorney;
• Registries: commercial, property, automobile;
• Setting up companies and other entities.