Finance Monthly Global Awards 2018 Edition

CRIMINAL DEFENCE LAW FIRM OF THE YEAR Firm Profile Established in Lisbon, SPASS law firm is composed by a young team of lawyers and legal consultants who guide themselves by a concept of proximity law practice ( Consiglieri ) aiming to preserve the principles of confidence and professional secrecy in each matter entrusted to them. When providing legal services and legal advice in its multiple areas of action, the team ensures total dedication, availability and support towards the Client. In the Criminal Law practice, SPASS lawyers have been taking part in some of the greatest and news worthy economic crime processes. SPASS has intervened in various processes of financial responsibility of the Portuguese Court of Auditors. The firm applies a due diligence method along with preventive law, with their clients, for both individuals and companies, to implement enhanced legal practices, hence avoiding civil and criminal infractions, as well as misdemeanors. About Miguel dos Santos Pereira Miguel dos Santos Pereira is Founding Partner of SPASS - Santos Pereira & Associados - Sociedade de Advogados, SP, RL. Miguel is a European Criminal Bar Association Member, was a member of the Work Meeting with the OECD Evaluation Team, at OECD invitation, regarding Portugal’s evaluation process within the context of the OECD Convention against the corruption of Foreigner Public Agents; Miguel was a Lawyer at the Association Union of the Professionals of Criminal Investigation Police (ASFIC/PJ); Miguel was a member of the National Board of the National Association of Young Portuguese Lawyers (ANJAP); Miguel was an Assistant Professor of Tax Litigation, Contract Law and Securities Law and he regularly participates in several news articles and law papers to be published in the media. He is also a guest speaker on television to comment Justice issues. Contact Miguel dos Santos Pereira Partner - Santos Pereira & Associados Edifício Premium - Infante Santo, Rua Cova da Moura, nº 2 – 2º Direito, 1350-117 Lisboa Tel: +351 211 313 450 Fax: +351 211 313 459 Email: geral@spass.pt Practice Areas PUBLIC AND ENVIRONMENT • Administrative and Public Procurement • Legal Advise of the Central and Local Administration • Projects • Infrastructures, Energy and Natural Resources • European Union BUSINESS PLANNING AND MONITORING • Incorporation of Companies, By-Laws, Shareholders Agreements and Startups • Business Transactions • Management Consulting • Competition • Intellectual Property, Trademarks and Patents • Privacy and Data Protection HUMAN AND LABOR RESOURCES • Hiring and Termination of Employment • Disciplinary Process and Dismissal Challenges • Follow-up of Individual and Collective Work Relationships • Social Responsibility Audits LITIGATION AND ARBITRATION • Civil responsability • Medical Malpractice • Economic Crimes • Penal • Corporate • Banking and Insurance • Laboral • Administrative • Taxation • Audit Office • Environmental • Counter-National • Civil • Family and Inheritance • Arbitration REAL ESTATE, FISCAL, FOREIGNERS AND ACQUISITION OF NATIONALITY • Advice on Acquisition of Real Estate • Urbanism • Construction • Investment Vehicles • Tax Consulting • Advising Foreigners and Nationality Acquisition Processes LEGAL AND FINANCIAL RESTRUCTURING OF PEOPLE AND COMPANIES • Insolvency and Special Revitalization Plan (PER) • Recovery and Claiming of Credits • Criminal Responsibility of Directors • Creditors Counseling Finance Monthly Global Awards 2017 www.finance-monthly.com 28 portugal