
Castanheira, Almeida, Pereira, Mateus Ferreira & Associates, Law Firm, LLC is a law firm with its head office in Coimbra. It was founded in 1992 and registered at the Bar Association under number 32/92. It uses as a distinctive element the acronym CAPA – Law Firm, LLC, and it is currently composed of seven partners, and a total of 20 collaborators.
Practice areas
Employment & Labor
CAPA – Law firm is conscious of how important human resources’ departments are nowadays in the employer’s companies and, similarly, how crucial management decisions in this field are to accomplishing success in these institutions, without ever forgetting the relevance of the people’s labour situation. Because of that, CAPA – Law Firm provides legal services in all the emerging legal aspects or those related to legal hiring, both in court or in pre-court periods, as well as at the counselling plan or in the achievement of notions.
Business
This being one of the most important fields in our business, CAPA – Law Firm provides occasional or permanent legal advice services about public or private Law to any legal subject, in areas of action encompassing several business sectors.
As an example, the following actions are being conducted under its advice:
- Creation, restructure, fusion and division of societies;
- Statutory changes, assistance to corporate life activities, drafting of shareholder agreements and monitoring the preparation of contracts;
- Bankruptcy procedures (related to individual subjects or legal entities), recognition or contesting claims, companies’ dissolution or settlement.
Lawsuits & Disputes
In modern law, this field is not considered anymore as a simple proceeding in civil, commercial or executive litigation. To that extent, all CAPA’s lawyers, besides possession of a wide experience in all areas which need judicial resolution of conflicts, also support situations ranging from negotiation to the development of advice aimed at pre-litigation and even prevention of conflicts.
Criminal Defense
Nowadays, this field plays a decisive role in the legal national context, which is why the social-economic reality leads the legislator to reinforce the extent of criminal and misdemeanour responsibilities, especially those regarding enterprises and the role that is played within them by their legal representatives.
CAPA – Law Firm has a wide experience regarding these issues and relies on a team of lawyers with broad experience assisting and supporting criminal and legal offenses, always bearing in mind the protection of their client’s interests, as well as counselling and legal consultation to prevent criminal conduct and the practice of legal offenses.
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