The commercial contracts practice provides practical and professional advice on contractual issues, covering all the trading activities of a business. Our substantial commercial expertise helps us address the diverse situations and business needs of our clients. We provide a comprehensive service whether it be on strategic transactions or on a more day-to-day level.

Our lawyers provide advice on the full range of customer and supplier agreements, consumer law and credit, standard terms and conditions, sponsorship, franchising, contractual liability, advertising and marketing, trading standards, sales promotion, distributorships, management arrangements, commercial outsourcing, joint ventures, partnerships and strategic alliances.

We believe in the strategic alliance as a business medium, we understand its importance to our clients' businesses and have significant experience implementing strategic alliances by way of joint ventures.

We work with clients to structure and document relationships with suppliers, customers or strategic partners including any concession, right or license won to exploit a market or material asset. We draft the range of documents necessary to create and preserve these relationships, protect our clients' rights and enhance the value of their businesses..

Our competition (antitrust) and regulatory team has established a leading reputation in the Portuguese and Brazilian jurisdictions. Our practice is at the cutting edge of developing competition (antitrust) and regulatory work.

The competition and regulatory group has wide experience Portuguese and Brazilian competition and regulatory regimes in a wide range of industry sectors.

Having represented clients in some of the most challenging antitrust matters in history, today Cameira Law Antitrust lawyers handle mergers & acquisitions, government investigations, civil & criminal litigation, and everyday counseling for multinational corporations and innovative small companies around the world.

With an innovative and friendly approach, Cameira Law's corporate practice offers clients commercial and practical advice on a broad spectrum of corporate work.

We advise companies, financial institutions and investors on a variety of complex transactions, and we provide ongoing corporate advice. In addition to our public and private M&A capability, our expertise extends to advising clients on insurance, project development and restructuring and insolvency.

With offices across two continents, Cameira Law has the strength and depth necessary to provide high quality commercial advice to the world's leading and most ambitious companies and institutions. We also recognise that clients need clear solutions to complex problems from dedicated teams who strive for technical excellence.

We advise on all legal and practical issues arising out of the employment or engagement of employees, directors and contractors.

Our expertise covers the range of employment issues involved in corporate transactions, as well as an advisory practice focusing on clients' day-to-day concerns, including corporate governance and boardroom issues, and a growing body of EU employment legislation.

Alongside our litigation department, we also act on contentious matters such as unfair dismissal, discrimination and whistle blowing.

Cameira Law's energy, transport and infrastructure department offers a full service to both private and public sector clients in the infrastructure and transport businesses, energy and resources companies, and utilities, whether as active or passive investors and intermediaries in those areas. We handle a wide variety of work - whether it is project finance, M&A, regulatory, commercial, corporate or litigation.

Cameira Law's environmental law practice has a strong commercial focus and extensive expertise on transactional and regulatory matters.

We follow the major changes which the insurance industry has been facing and continues to face.

Our creative approach has lead to our involvement in advising and acting for leading English, German and French insurers in major insurance projects in the Portuguese market. We have also been at the cutting edge of developments in the industry. We work with clients to develop strategies to overcome the obstacles that they face as well as taking full advantage of the opportunities.

Cameira Law's lawyers are experts in the conduct of litigation and arbitration. We have worked with clients to resolve highly complex, commercial disputes with a proven track record of success. We have all the resources and expertise to manage your most complex and sensitive cases.

Cameira Law places a high emphasis on our transactional knowledge and we are able to bring a commercial and business-oriented approach to a wide range of contentious and non-contentious property matters.

We have the expertise, experience and resources, which underwrite our reputation as a market leader in all aspects of real estate. We understand our client’s business environment therefore our contribution extends beyond the technical legal aspects of our work and enables us to support client's commercial objectives.

Cameira Law has a comprehensive tax service reflecting the firm's corporate and entrepreneurial client base. The practice includes specialist expertise in corporate tax matters.

We provide advice in relation to the structuring and execution of transactions and overall tax planning, whether in Portugal, Brazil or internationally.

Cameira Law has built a leading financial markets practice offering clients commercial and practical advice on a broad spectrum of work, including debt capital markets and equity capital markets.

Cameira Law’s debt capital markets practice is part of the firm's finance practice and acts for both issuers and lead managers on the full range of debt capital markets products including eurobond issues, convertible bonds, commercial paper programmes, medium term note issues and private placements.

We also advise on domestic and international offerings of equity securities on the stock exchanges of Europe and South America.