Our Expertise
VCA has become a firm of polymath lawyers, with expertise in specialized areas of practice, which also cater to other areas of law that are intersectional with our areas of specialization.
Our 25-lawyers team combines experience, anticipation, creativity, and determination, offering clients a range of skills and resources for a variety of projects, both locally and internationally.
Our main focus is to solve every case using creative and out-of-the-box solutions. We embrace challenges.
Main Areas
We offer services akin to a legal concierge by covering all the needs of an individual’s and/or family’s assets, wealth, and investments.
Our very experienced team is led by partners with over 25 years’ experience. We act in a broad range of disputes, from civil actions, corporate and commercial litigation, to maritime, labour, tax, and white-collar crime.
Our Immigration Department’s practice and experience allow us to assist our clients in various and complex needs.
We guide our clients on various employment and labour subjects, including collective bargaining, compensation, and benefits, restructuring, employment litigation, and disciplinary investigations.
We offer domestic and international taxation services, for both companies and private clients, such as high net worth individuals (HNWI) and family estate structures.
We have a strong Corporate Law practice – focused on SMEs and family offices – assisting with the incorporation of companies both in Portugal and other jurisdictions.
Our Real Estate team assists in the purchases, sales, and leases of properties, ensuring maximum legal security for the parties involved. We are specialists in tourism and leisure projects.
Other Practice Areas
Our Projects, Energy and Mining practice team monitors infrastructure and heavy engineering projects and advises international companies on financing operations, in Portugal and other countries, namely on the African continent.
Our firm has lawyers specialized in Maritime Law who have fought challenging cases though innovative solutions.
Our cohesive team offers expertise with pragmatic art law advice from Copyrights to Provenance, Tax, Import & Export.
Our team has a broad knowledge in most fields of Specialized and Alternative Investment Funds.
VCA assists clients in public procurement, advising contracting entities, both public and private.