Dantas Rodrigues & Associados

Dantas Rodrigues & Associados are active both in criminal areas as in illicit administrative offense areas. We deal with criminal and administrative infringements of natural and legal persons. We are geared towards filing appeals for proceedings in whose initial stages we weren’t involved.

Services provided include:

• Drafting criminal complaints;
• Follow up on judicial inquiries: being present at all stages with the criminal police and criminal courts;
• Challenge searches; Seizure of assets;
• Actions to change provisional detention of detained defendants;
• Habeas-Corpus;
• Reviewing guilty sentences;
• Appeals to the Supreme Court and Constitutional Court;
• Appeals to the European Court of Human Rights;
• Strategic planning in the defence of crimes such as: Homicide, genocide, bodily harm, abuse, threats, rape, pimping, drugs, kidnapping, damage, theft, fencing, deception, embezzlement, corruption, influence peddling, illegal emigration, fraud, wrongful insolvency, malicious administration, forging and counterfeiting, slander, insult, abuse of freedom of press, money laundering;
• Following the extradition of Portuguese nationals arrested abroad and of foreign nationals arrested in Portugal;
• Following doping-related offenses;
• Following offenses related to copyright, brand and patent rights;
• Following offenses related to the exchequer and Social Security;
• Following economy-related offenses;
• Drafting compensation claims.

Dantas Rodrigues & Associados provides services in the area of Real Estate Law, including:

• Negotiating Real Estate operations;
• Real estate divestment operations: corporate Real Estate or real estate sales;
• Investment operations: Project finance, mortgage financing, structured financing;
• Acquisition or incorporation of real estate companies;
• Urban allotment and legalizing illegal settlements;
• Drafting contracts for construction, works, exchanges, lease, sales with or without encumbrances, mortgages;
• Framing of the taxes attached to choice of contract;
• Creating and changing horizontal property;
• Drafting and negotiating any type of real estate contract;
• Planning the eviction of leased buildings;
• Contracts for the use of buildings (lease, assignment for the use of land, etc.);
• Charging rent;
• Negotiating, reviewing and updating old rents;
• General defence of ownership/ejectment;
• Litigation: evictions, recovery of land possession and title, usucaption, easements, rent collection, necessary repairs in leased buildings, damages caused to rented property.
• Tax Law and Litigation.

At Dantas Rodrigues & Associados we follow and represent our clients before administrative authorities responsible in labour area.

Our areas of expertise include:

• Restructuring processes, redundancies, with extrajudicial solutions;
• Dismissal, collective dismissal;
• Permanent closure of the company;
• Preventive legal consultancy: employment agreements; Initiation and conclusion of disciplinary proceedings; individual negotiations for the termination of the employment agreement;
• Foreign workers: consultancy towards the legalization process;
• Defending workers in lawsuits for violation of workers’ rights;
• Lawsuit resulting from work accidents and professional illnesses;
• Damages for harassment; moral damages;
• Sports employment: Assistance in drafting sports contracts; negotiation; termination of contract between the athlete and the club;
• Seminars and courses at client companies, regarding employment law procedures and their applicability;
• Collective negotiation and employment relationships;
• Collective conventions and agreements;
• Collective regulation tools;
• Collective bargaining regarding work conditions;
• Dealing with the Portuguese Employment Inspection;
• Settling social security debts.

Dantas Rodrigues & Associados provides permanent support to our clients, namely in the following areas:

• Wills: heirs and beneficiaries;
• Disinheritance;
• Judicial and extrajudicial asset distribution;
• Lawsuit seeking the right to continue to inhabit the family residence and the right to household belongings;
• Inventories;
• Distribution annulment;
• Wills annulment and revocation;
• Legal proceedings seeking recognition of succession capacity and entitlement to heirs’ rights;
• Donations.

Dantas Rodrigues & Associados is especially geared towards providing our clients with constant assistance, namely in:

• Advice from the time of acquisition or incorporation, to the expansion and development of the company, mergers and strategic ventures with domestic and foreign companies;
• Consultancy services during Board meetings;
• General Meetings; consultancy services to prepare meetings (drafting minutes and other documents);
• Strategic planning;
• Conversion of the legal structure of the company; from limited liability to public liability and vice-versa, single shareholder company to limited liability company and vice-versa;
• Guidance and consultancy for the purchase or sale of domestic or foreign companies;
• Planning and creating foundations and associations;
• Bankruptcy: winding up companies;
• Personal bankruptcy;
• Debt Agreement with creditors;
• Litigation: defence of the company, partners, managers and directors in lawsuits;
• Protection of the property of managers or directors: preventive planning, reorganization of marital property and family property;
• Debt collection: titled by invoice, cheque, draft, promissory note or private documents;
• Trademarks and patents: registration;
• Trademark and patent right protection: Administratively – opposition to applications to register trademarks, brands; Judicially – seizure of counterfeit goods, damages claims, monitoring of the appropriate criminal procedure;
• Licensing of brands, patents and know- how;
• Agreement drafting (agency, commercial lease, concession, loan, franchising, transfer of enterprise, Factoring;
• Creation of guarantees: surety, security, mortgages, and garnishment.

Dantas Rodrigues & Associados provides our clients with constant assistance, representing them at court, namely in cases of:

• Divorce by mutual consent or contested divorce;
• Annulment of catholic marriage;
• Judicial separation of people and assets;
• Distribution of marital property following divorce or judicial separation of people and assets;
• Alteration of the marital property regime;
• Preventive asset planning, in the event of any doubts by either spouse;
• Child support and changes in view of decreased income;
• Child custody and visitation;
• Alimony;
• Adoption processes;
• Non-marital partnership;
• Guardians, curators, incapacity;
• Paternity and filiation proceedings.