PM-Advogados is a Portuguese law firm based in the North of Portugal, with offices in Porto and Alto Minho (Viana do Castelo and Ponte de Lima).
Despite being based in the north of Portugal, PM-Advogados provides legal advice and is present throughout the national territory.
Our mission is to provide services and legal advice «Full-service» with the highest standard of quality, rigor, discretion and above all with a strong focus on proximity to serving our customers.
With experience and security, we seek to innovate in the discovery of solutions, thus achieving legal advice tailored to the interests of our clients.

About PM Advogados

Founded in 2000

10 people in their team


Practice areas
Lawsuits & Disputes
Employment & Labor
Immigration
Intellectual Property
Criminal Defense
Family
Elder Law
Business

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Practice areas

Lawsuits & Disputes

PM-ADVOGADOS provides services and follow-up to its clients within the scope of:

  • Pre-litigation
  • Civil, Administrative and Commercial Litigation
  • Executive Processes
  • Forensic advice and sponsorship in all kinds of legal actions and procedures, in civil, criminal, commercial and social matters (labor and administrative) in all its phases and instances of appeal.
ADR Mediation & Arbitration
Appeal
Class Action
Litigation

Employment & Labor

At PM-ADVOGADOS we advise and represent our clients before administrative entities in the labor area, as well as provide all the assistance and monitoring in the scope of labor courts.

Our skills include:

  • Disciplinary Procedures
  • Advice and Advice
  • Collective Dismissal Processes
  • Labor Litigation
  • Collective recruitment
  • Drafting of Employment Contracts
  • Revocation of Employment Contracts by Mutual Agreement
  • Company Restructuring
  • Follow-up on issues related to legal updates
  • Restructuring processes, personnel reduction, avoiding recourse to the courts
  • Dismissal, collective dismissal
  • Final closure of the company
  • Preventive legal advice: employment contracts; Initiation and conclusion of disciplinary proceedings
  • Individual negotiation for the termination of the employment contract
  • Foreign labor: Advising on the legalization procedure
  • Monitoring the worker in actions for violation of workers' rights
  • Action arising from accidents at work and occupational diseases
  • Action for damages for harassment; moral damage
  • Collective bargaining and industrial relations
  • Pacts and collective agreements
  • Collective regulation instruments
  • Collective bargaining of working conditions
  • Intervention before the General Labor Inspectorate
  • Regularization of social security debts
Employment Rights
Hiring & Firing
Job Discrimination
Labor Law
Pension
Retirement
Sexual Harassment
Social Security
Wage & Hour
Wrongful Termination

Immigration

PM-ADVOGADOS provides services and support to its customers in the scope of:

  • Visas (work, study, investment)
  • SEF requests and inquiries
  • Legalization of Foreigners
  • Tax Representation
  • Legal representation services
  • Foreign investment in Portugal
  • Document search with District and Central Archives
  • Document search with the Civil Registry Offices
  • Advice on tax and social security matters - obtaining a Tax Identification Number (NIF) and Social Security Identification Number (NISS)
  • Assistance in the administrative procedure for requesting a residence visa extension
  • Support in the management and processing of the entire administrative procedure for obtaining a residence permit from the competent authority, the Aliens and Borders Service (SEF)
  • Advice and legal advice throughout the procedure for the attribution and acquisition of Portuguese nationality
Asylum
Business Visa
Citizenship
Dependent Visa
Permanent Residency
Retirement Visa
Work Permit

Intellectual Property

PM-ADVOGADOS advises and provides services within the scope of the property of the brand, patent, design or model:

  • Registration and maintenance of trademarks, whether national, community or internationally registered
  • Registration and maintenance of designs or models, either at national or community level
  • Defense of the property of the brand, patent, design or model: By administrative means, through challenges to requests for registration of brands, names; By court order, seizure of the counterfeit product, action for damages, monitoring of appropriate criminal proceedings
  • Claims for damages for violation of industrial property rights
  • Industrial property rights assignment and license agreements
  • Technology transfer contracts
  • Joint venture contracts
  • Distribution, franchising, goodwill and factoring contracts
  • Contracts for constitution of guarantee by means of a brand pledge
  • Follow-up of the pledge execution judicial process
Copyright
Patent
Trademark

Criminal Defense

A PM-ADVOGADOS it acts both in the scope of the criminal offense and in the offense of the offense. Dealing with the criminal and administrative offense of natural and legal persons.

  • Provision of information and opinions in criminal and administrative matters
  • Elaboration of criminal complaint
  • Assistance to the accused in questioning before the Public Ministry
  • Assistance to the accused in interrogation of the defendant before the Investigating Judge, for the application of a coercive measure other than the term of identity and residence
  • Follow-up of the interviewing assistant during the investigation phase
  • Monitoring of witnesses in due diligence during the investigation, investigation 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 diligences considered relevant
  • Deduction of private accusation, in cases of crime of a particular procedural nature
  • Elaboration of a hierarchical intervention request
  • Opening of instructions by the accused, 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 instructional debate
  • Filing an appeal against the final decision on non-pronunciation and pronunciation, depending on their admissibility
  • Elaboration of the defense to the indictment and the claim for civil compensation
  • Assistance to the defendant in all trial sessions
  • Filing of appeals, by the defendant or the assistant, in case of disagreement with the final decision handed down
  • Assistance to the defendant in legal cumulation processes
  • Assistance to the defendant in summary, abbreviated and extremely special special processes
  • 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.
  • Presentation of written defenses and legal challenges in administrative infractions
  • Economic and financial crime (money laundering, fraud, corruption, fraud, among others)
  • Medical negligence
  • Crimes arising from violations of safety, environmental or public health rules
  • Tax and social security crimes
  • Cybercrime
  • Regulatory compliance
Arrests & Searches
Bail Bond Service
Criminal Litigation
Drug Crime
Drunk Driving
Sex Crime
Speeding & Traffic Ticket

Family

PM-ADVOGADOS provides services and support to its customers in the scope of:

  • Divorce
  • Regulation of the Exercise of Parental Responsibilities
  • Preparation of Antenuptial Conventions
  • Foreign Judgment Review Processes
  • Promotion and Protection Processes
  • Preparation of wills
  • Shares
  • Inventories
  • Early Declarations of Will / Vital Testament
  • Advice and legal support in all procedures relevant to sharing in life, namely donations and registration of lifetime usufruct reserve
  • Law choice agreement applicable to the succession
  • Succession planning, namely will and will testament
  • Annulment and revocation of wills
  • Elaboration of donation contracts
  • Disposal of the right of inheritance
  • Legal advice on promoting the qualification of heirs with a Notary or Heritage Desk
  • Record of acquisition in hereditary communion of existing real estate
  • Records inherent to inheritance
  • Legal advice on inheritance management and its fruits
  • Double head removal procedure
  • Legal advice on extrajudicial sharing procedure
  • Legal advice in judicial sharing process (inventory process) in Notary
  • Legal advice in judicial sharing process (inventory process) in Court
  • Judicial procedure for the recognition of the succession status and the recognition of the right of the heir
  • Procedure for assigning the right to housing the family home and rights over the filling
  • Counseling and legal advice on the exercise of rights by the death of a de facto partner
  • Legal advice on tax obligations resulting from sharing
  • Legal advice and representation in a transnational sharing process
  • Undo sharing
Adoption
Child Abuse
Child Custody
Child Support
Child Visitation
Divorce & Separation
Domestic Violence
Marriage

Elder Law

PM-ADVOGADOS provides services and support to its customers in the scope of:

  • Divorce
  • Regulation of the Exercise of Parental Responsibilities
  • Preparation of Antenuptial Conventions
  • Foreign Judgment Review Processes
  • Promotion and Protection Processes
  • Preparation of wills
  • Shares
  • Inventories
  • Early Declarations of Will / Vital Testament
  • Advice and legal support in all procedures relevant to sharing in life, namely donations and registration of lifetime usufruct reserve
  • Law choice agreement applicable to the succession
  • Succession planning, namely will and will testament
  • Annulment and revocation of wills
  • Elaboration of donation contracts
  • Disposal of the right of inheritance
  • Legal advice on promoting the qualification of heirs with a Notary or Heritage Desk
  • Record of acquisition in hereditary communion of existing real estate
  • Records inherent to inheritance
  • Legal advice on inheritance management and its fruits
  • Double head removal procedure
  • Legal advice on extrajudicial sharing procedure
  • Legal advice in judicial sharing process (inventory process) in Notary
  • Legal advice in judicial sharing process (inventory process) in Court
  • Judicial procedure for the recognition of the succession status and the recognition of the right of the heir
  • Procedure for assigning the right to housing the family home and rights over the filling
  • Counseling and legal advice on the exercise of rights by the death of a de facto partner
  • Legal advice on tax obligations resulting from sharing
  • Legal advice and representation in a transnational sharing process
  • Undo sharing
Estate Planning
Trusts
Will & Testament

Business

PM-ADVOGADOS provides services and support to its customers in the scope of:

  • Commercial and corporate litigation
  • National and international commercial contracts
  • Incorporation of companies, sole proprietorship structures and groups of companies
  • Shareholder agreements
  • Due diligences
  • Mergers, divisions and acquisitions
  • Support for the activities of corporate bodies and corporate governance (including compliance mechanisms and issues of management responsibility)
  • Joint-ventures consortia
  • Corporate finance operations
  • Dissolution and liquidation of companies
  • Investment planning and structuring in Portugal and abroad
Banking & Finance
Business Registration
Contract
Due Diligence
Employer
Franchising
Investment
Legal Document
Licensing
Merger & Acquisition
New Business Formation
Office Solutions
Oil, Gas & Energy
Tax

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