Advogados Carlos Coelho & Associados

General Litigation

Lawyers in the General Litigation area have extensive experience in consulting and preventive and prophylactic advice in the areas of consumer law, insurance law, transport law, environmental law, waste law, water law, road law and criminal law. tout court, among others not entrusted to different teams of “Carlos Coelho e Associados”.

Of this General Litigation, the Administrative Offense Litigation stands out, given its greater degree of specialization in preventive consulting and guidance of processes in the most varied areas of law. “Carlos Coelho e Associados” ensures and monitors emerging processes, from the administrative phase of Inquiry and Instruction, to the judicial phase, promoting, developing and executing the right to be heard and defended through the elaboration of written defenses, requests, witness cross-examinations, judicial challenges, trial hearings and appeals.

Criminal law

The elements of “Carlos Coelho e Associados” who take on the handling of Criminal Litigation, have a wide and vast experience in monitoring and intervening in criminal proceedings that have already been instituted, not neglecting, in their action and competences, the phase of counseling and definition of practical strategies for each case that is handed over to them for resolution in this area.

A equipa assegura e garante um acompanhamento personalizado e intenso em todas as fases do processo penal: inquérito, instrução, julgamento ou recursos. E tem, ainda, e porque se mostra imprescindível e imperativa, uma atuação transversal, de apoio, às restantes áreas de atuação desta Sociedade de Advogados.

Labor and Social Security Law

“Carlos Coelho e Associados” has extensive experience in all aspects of Employment Law and related areas.

The team of Lawyers in charge of this area is aware that it is imperative to promote adequate, capable and effective management of labor relations between employers and workers, with the aim of optimizing and rationalizing human resources and guaranteeing high levels of competitiveness for our companies. Clients, for that reason and for that, we gather the knowledge and experience necessary and required to achieve the provision of a complete range of services in all aspects of this socio-economic and legal area.
Lawyers who work in this area provide regular advice to various companies, small, medium or large. “Carlos Coelho e Associados” also has consolidated experience in the field of Social Security schemes, providing advice to its clients, also in the context of complementary or alternative pension schemes. Among the services provided by the Employment Law and Social Security team,
we highlight:
- Legal support in company restructuring processes, including collective redundancies, job extinctions, agreements to revoke employment contracts, lay-off procedures;
- Advice on labor matters of a general and strategic nature, as well as matters in the area of ​​social security;
- Analysis and drafting of individual employment contracts, temporary employment contracts, occasional employee transfer agreements and service provision contracts;
- Support in the management of employment contracts, including support in matters such as functional and geographic mobility and changes in remuneration;
- Representation and defense of the interests of our Clients, under mandate, in any dispute of a labor nature before courts, arbitration commissions or administrative authorities;
- Monitoring of Customers in meetings with trade unions, professional associations and inspection authorities;
- Follow-up of work accident processes, at administrative and judicial levels;
- Advice on matters of safety, health and hygiene at work;
- Acompanhamento e instrução de procedimentos disciplinares;
- Assistência em processos de contratação e legalização de trabalhadores estrangeiros.

Family and Probate

Our Family and Succession team is dedicated and aware of personalized monitoring of all matters relating to the law and the rights of the family, children and young people, as well as inheritance and hereditary or testamentary divisions, acting preferably in a preventively, with advice and personal support, aiming at an out-of-court resolution of all issues/conflicts resulting from and emerging from these issues.

Caso se mostre necessário, curamos de, judicialmente, dar todo o apoio e praticar todos os atos que se mostrem pertinentes e com a acuidade jurídico-legal imprescindível, para um trabalho assertivo e que satisfaça da forma ideal a vontade e os interesses legítimos dos nossos Clientes. A “Carlos Coelho e Associados” está vocacionada, desde o dealbar da sua existência, para acompanhar e resolver todas as matérias relacionadas com o Direito da Família, nomeadamente: o processo de casamento, convenções antenupciais, processos de separação de pessoas e bens, simples separação de bens, divórcio por mútuo consentimento e sem consentimento do outro cônjuge, reconhecimento e cessação de união de facto, fixação, alteração e cessação de alimentos, partilhas e inventários derivados de divórcio e/ou separação de pessoas e bens, ações de revisão e confirmação de sentenças estrangeiras, procedimentos cautelares de alimentos provisórios e de arrolamento de bens.
As for children and young people, we monitor closely and with the due attention, considering the sensitivity of the subject, the regulation of the exercise of parental responsibilities, lato sensu, investigation and challenge of paternity, civil sponsorship, issues of international conventions on maintenance and community regulations in matters of family, children and young people.
We provide consultancy and legal support in Succession Law, with special emphasis on the opening of the succession, the qualification of heirs, wills, donations, extrajudicial divisions and probate processes, their incidents and subsequent registration acts.

Real Rights and Construction

“Carlos Coelho e Associados” has extensive experience in matters related to investment, construction, promotion and real estate development, providing its partners, associates and collaborators with multiple services in this area.

Namely in the following matters:
- Legal assistance to real estate companies and the promotion and management of assets;
- Advice on the financing and implementation of real estate development projects;
- Consultancy on projects for the acquisition and sale of real estate intended for investment, housing, commerce and industry;
- Accompaniment in the conclusion and execution of purchase and sale, lease and other contracts;
- Support in the process of granting licenses and allotment permits.

It was born in 1994 and is a reference in the city of Coimbra.
Rigor, competence, responsibility and a high ethical and social sense are the values ​​that guide this firm, its lawyers and collaborators.
It is our aim to satisfy our customers' needs in a practical way, in close collaboration with them.
We are a competitive, solid and dynamic company, inserted in a region that is also increasingly open to business and new opportunities.