Deloitte Legal

Deloitte Legal (formerly CTSU) is the Deloitte Legal* practice in Portugal.

As a Deloitte Legal member firm we have a global footprint rendering legal services in more than 75 countries and assisting clients in cross border transactions with high quality standards and the same level of consistency. Deloitte Legal  combines global perspective with local insights to help clients in developing and executing those solutions.

Using Deloitte Legal* practices around the world allows our clients to reduce the risks associated with operating across different jurisdictions.

Also, in Portugal we are particularly placed to advise on cross-border transactions involving Lusophone African countries (such as Angola, Mozambique or Cape Verde), always with the support of local lawyers, given the historical, cultural and linguistic ties connecting Portugal to such jurisdictions.

Deloitte Legal* addresses your challenges with comprehensive thinking, powered by experience and insights drawn from diverse business disciplines, industries, and global perspectives. We bring together legal advice, strategy, and technology to develop innovative solutions, create value for you and your business, and transform the way in which legal services are delivered and consumed.

Operating in 75  countries, Deloitte Legal practitioners work closely across borders, providing a strategic perspective to help companies meet local responsibilities and thrive in the global marketplace. With access to industry specialists and an unparalleled range of legal professional services, we also employ technology to pioneer innovative solutions to the most complex business problems.

Deloitte Legal pairs strategy with technology to aggregate, organize, and analyze complex data from multiple sources, providing the insight to enhance clients’ decision-making process. Deloitte Legal has reshaped many functions with its transformative thinking, which Deloitte Legal applies to reshape the legal department. We focus on people, process, and technology to help legal departments free up time for what matters.

Deloitte Legal doesn’t just work for clients, but with clients to develop the right solutions for their business. Understanding the client’s needs and putting a business lens on legal problems enables us to help the General Counsel become a business partner.

*Deloitte Legal means the legal practices of Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu Limited (“DTTL”) member firms, their affiliates or their related entities that provide legal services. The exact nature of these relationships and provision of legal services differs by jurisdiction, to allow compliance with local laws and professional regulations. Each Deloitte Legal practice is legally separate and independent, and cannot obligate any other Deloitte Legal practice. Each Deloitte Legal practice is liable only for its own acts and omissions, and not those of other Deloitte Legal practices. For legal, regulatory and other reasons, not all member firms, their affiliates or their related entities provide legal services or are associated with Deloitte Legal practices.

Main areas of practice: Deloitte Legal combines legal expertise with business and market knowledge, and renders full dedication to each transaction or matter, which allows it to become client’s trusted advisors.

Deloitte Legal organizes its market offerings around three key areas:

Legal advisory: Deloitte Legal's advisors assist multinational organizations with day-to-day activities as well as corporate life events across many jurisdictions. Deloitte Legal’s professionals leverage leading technologies to deliver efficient and transparent support for the everyday legal activities companies manage.

Deloitte Legal practitioners understand that global organizations are enormously complex organisms, and no one unit is sealed off from the rest. Legal services combined with tech-enabled legal approach allows Deloitte Legal to address legal questions not just in the abstract isolated way but with a holistic understanding of what the client organization is trying to achieve.

With a client-centric approach, Deloitte Legal practitioners expand their knowledge about their clients, the industries they operate in, their regulatory and legislative environments around the world to bring more to the table and provide the best possible legal advice to clients.

Guidance, advice and support are offered in the areas of:

• Corporate law
• IP law
• Technology law
• Dispute resolution
• Employment law and benefits
• Mergers and acquisitions
• Regulatory and compliance
• Private clients legal services
• Real estate
• Banking and finance
• Capital Markets
• Commercial law
• Restructuring and Recovery

Legal managed services: Deloitte Legal’s legal managed services were developed to help legal departments keep up with the demands from their businesses for support on a range of legal issues. The legal professionals employ technology and proven methodologies to act as an extension of a company’s in-house legal team, driving efficiencies through process improvement, and providing support and guidance to help enable their focus to shift to more strategic issues.

Support is offered for:

• Legal entity management
• Legal document review
• Legal contracting
• Legal contract and commercial management
• Legal operations and spend management
• Legal counsel as a service
• Legal regulatory mapping
• Legal staffing
• Other legal managed services

Legal management consulting: Deloitte Legal’s LMC services includes assessing and developing legal operating models, evaluating and reconfiguring internal legal processes, developing frameworks for legal risk management, assisting with sourcing (balancing in-house resources with external third party providers), developing and deploying legal technology architecture, and facilitating tailored labs to develop solutions.