Catarina S. Gomes

The global market has brought new opportunities, but also new challenges for national and multinational companies and an increased degree of contractual and organizational complexity.

The growing need to safeguard issues related to social responsibility, ethics and consumer rights; the need to implement mechanisms of good corporate governance allied to the optimization of organizations, with special reputational concerns, rationalization of costs and reduction of the probability of conflicts, require technically solid answers but with a strong practical sense.

It is one of the practice areas that accompanied the growth and maturation process of Advogada Catarina S. Gomes .

In this area, we have a team of lawyers in Braga who participate in various processes characterized by their high degree of complexity.

We have experience in drafting and negotiating the most diverse contractual instruments, namely, business cooperation agreements, such as distribution agreements (agency, commercial concession and franchise), joint venture agreements, works contracts and other service provision agreements, contracts relating to real estate (vg purchase and sale, lease, tourist operation) and contracts relating to commercial establishments (vg trespass, assignment of operation).

HIGHLIGHTS

In this area of ​​expertise, we provide, by way of example, the following legal services:

general advice

• Advice on setting up commercial companies: Public Limited Companies (SA), Private Limited Companies; Sole Proprietorships by Quotas; civil societies
• Advice on amending bylaws, restructuring operations and dissolutions and liquidations of companies
• Legal advice on assignment of quotas or shares, alteration of articles of incorporation, spin-off, merger or transformation and other acts related to companies
• Elaboration of shareholder agreements
• Monitoring and formalization of minutes of General Meetings
• Legal support in matters of corporate governance and compliance mechanisms
• Commercial litigation, including debt collection, whether titled or not
• Exercise of duties of secretary of commercial companies
• Complementary groupings of companies
• Rights, obligations and responsibilities of partners/shareholders and managers/administrators
• business records
• Elaboration of contracts of a commercial nature, such as trespass, assignments of commercial exploitation, agency, concession, charter contracts, transport, consortium, joint venture, franchise, commercial leasing, contract work, mandate, etc.
• Insolvencies and corporate recovery

I provide legal services within the scope of family and succession law, including divorce by mutual consent or litigious , separation of persons and property, sharing of property in the context of divorce or separation of persons and property, change of marriage regime and property, regulation of parental responsibilities, establishment of alimony, follow-up of procedures for adopting minors, de facto unions, actions for an adult accompanied, inventories and sharing of assets, wills.

I have experience in the field of family and inheritance law , and our team is fully capable of responding to any questions and challenges that are posed in this area.

The legal advice provided by our team integrates any aspect of Family and Succession Law, with particular focus on the following matters, which are areas with solid practice in our society.

HIGHLIGHTS

In this area, we monitor, for example, the following subjects:

Follow-up and organization of the preliminary marriage process.

Monitoring of divorce proceedings by mutual consent of the spouses, namely:

• Explanation of the consequences of divorce
• Permanent legal support until the divorce is obtained
  • Preparing the divorce petition
  • Elaboration of agreements on the exercise of parental authority, on the attribution of the family home and on the specified list of common property
  • Elaboration of any changes, as often as necessary
  • Promoting the settlement of taxes related to sharing
  • Promotion of transfer records of real estate, furniture or shareholdings arising from the sharing
  • Promoting the application for registration or updating of urban buildings in Finance
• Follow-up of divorce proceedings without the consent of one of the spouses, namely:
  • Explanation of the consequences of divorce and the division of property
  • Permanent legal support until the divorce is obtained
  • Elaboration of the necessary procedural documents until the court decision
  • Judicial representation until the court decision
• Pre- and post-divorce follow-up
• Legal assistance in processes of separation of persons and assets and simple separation of assets
• Legal assistance in the procedure for sharing the assets of divorced or separated spouses from persons and assets
• Preventive planning of assets in the face of debts of one or both spouses
• Legal support in the process of regulating and changing parental responsibilities
• Legal assistance in cases of setting, amending and terminating alimony
• Assistance in paternity investigation action
• Advice and representation in de facto union recognition proceedings

Presto, in the area of ​​Criminal and Misdemeanor Law, from compliance, preventing the commission of crimes and misdemeanors, to legal representation, defending the Client, natural or legal person, in any of the phases of the criminal and misdemeanor proceedings (inquiry, instruction, trial, appeal) and before any judicial authority (Public Ministry and Judge) or supervisory and regulatory entities of activity sectors (Bank of Portugal, CMVM, AdC, ERSE, ERC, ANACOM, ASAE, IGA, among others).

I am therefore oriented towards advising my clients in legal advice and consultation with a preventive function, in order to avoid the commission of criminal and administrative infractions, as well as in forensic representation and defense, as defendants, accompanying them in all procedural stages. .

HIGHLIGHTS

In this area of ​​activity, services such as:

Preparation of criminal complaint;

• Assistance to the accused in questioning before the Public Prosecutor's Office;
• Assistance to the accused in questioning the accused before the Investigating Judge, for the application of a coercive measure other than the term of identity and residence;
• Accompaniment of the assistant in question during the inquiry stage;
• Accompaniment of witnesses in inquiry diligence, in the inquiry, instruction and trial phase;
• Follow-up of the investigation, in its entirety, from its opening to its closing, with the practice of all acts and the request of all the diligences deemed relevant;
• Deduction of private accusation, in cases of crime of a particular procedural nature;
• Elaboration of request for hierarchical intervention;
• Opening of instruction by the defendant, in case of accusation, and by the assistant, in case of filing;
• Follow-up of all diligences in the instruction phase;
• Assistance to the accused and the assistant in the instructive debate;
• Interposition of final order appeal of non-pronunciation and pronouncement, depending on its admissibility;
• Elaboration of defense to the accusation and the claim for civil damages;
• Assistance to the defendant in all trial sessions;
• Interposition of appeals, by the defendant or by the assistant, in case of disagreement with the final decision rendered;
• Assistance to the defendant in cases of juridical accumulation.
• Assistance to the defendant in summary, abbreviated and very summary special proceedings;
• Monitoring the execution of the sentence, namely, in case of suspension of the prison sentence; community work; payment of a fine in installments and, with regard to effective imprisonment, procedures for granting parole and judicial exits.​​

Catarina S. Gomes

Professional License No. 55087P

- Higher Degree in Law at the University of Minho

- Practice training courses: Civil Procedure; Criminal Procedure; Constitutional right; Judicial Organization; Deontology; Legal Informatics; Labor Procedures; Company Law ; Insolvency Process.

- Conferences and Colloquiums: “New Inventory Process”; “The New Code of Civil Procedure”; “Accounting for Jurists”; “Money Laundering”; “Changes to the Labor Legislation and the Contributory Regime”.

- Personal Data Protection at Universidade Nova de Lisboa

- Credit Intermediation at the Banking Training Institute, Porto