Cerejeira Namora, Marinho Falcão

Firm overview: Cerejeira Namora, Marinho Falcão is a Portuguese law firm with roots in the city of Porto and transversal activity throughout the national territory. Multidisciplinary dynamics, combined with scientific rigor and technical capacity, remain the cornerstone of a young and dynamic team that seeks a common commitment: innovative and trusting relationships.

Main areas of practice
Employment law: The employment team has recognised experience in advising clients in all sectors of activity, participating daily in the monitoring of decision processes and providing strategic guidance. Collaboration with the other areas of expertise allows the formation of multidisciplinary teams with the capacity for cross-cut action and complementary perspectives with a focus on the assessment of all potential contingencies.

Tax: The tax team works in an integrated manner with the other areas of expertise in order to perform in all areas of tax law, including tax litigation and tax and parafiscal consultancy. We see ourselves as a proactive partner of our individual and business clients from all sectors of activity in Portugal and abroad. Our tax team acts with high ethical standards, integrity and transparency in the search for pragmatic solutions for all challenges.

Corporate: With a deep knowledge of the business framework, the corporate team serves the best interests of clients in strategic issues that define the future of their organisations in permanent contact with other specialised areas. In order to guarantee a 360º perspective in all operations, we work in a network with teams from all areas of expertise, with partners of excellence and recognised quality, as well as with our client’s representatives, employees and partners, with the winning strategy of being close and knowing the sectors and markets where they operate, and monitoring the positioning and performance of regulatory bodies.

Banking and finance: Cerejeira Namora, Marinho Falcão brings together an experienced, dynamic and uncompromising team in the defense of its clients’ rights, as well as in the definition of legal solutions that allow for the satisfaction of the legal and contractual requirements of a sector as relevant as banking. The banking and finance team has extensive experience in managing various types of loan portfolios, namely with the main types of derivatives (eg swaps), providing comprehensive advice at all stages of operations.

Public: The public team has extensive experience in arbitration, procedural and judicial administrative litigation, with a particular focus on the areas of urban planning, public procurement, civil service and non-contractual civil liability of the state, as well as specialised legal advice to public and private entities. Whenever necessary in coordination with the other teams, provides consultancy on projects and operations and in issuing legal opinions and information.

Privacy, digital and technology: The privacy, digital and technology team has nationally and internationally recognised qualifications in leading institutions, as well as experience in compliance projects for organisations, activities, systems and software in the most varied sectors and industries. With a focus on the future, our professionals seek to update their knowledge everyday to ensure responses appropriate to the speed and pace of innovation.

International work: Cerejeira Namora, Marinho Falcão is now an Auren member firm. With its roots and headquarters in Spain, the Auren network is directly present in 11 countries, with 60 offices and over 2000 professionals in Legal, Consulting, Tax, and Audit fields. It is a full-service firm that, in addition to its own offices, also benefits from an extensive network of partners through the Antea network. Also, as part of its international strategy, it is integrated at IR Global, a worldwide network of firms that provides legal, financial and accounting services to companies or individuals in more than 155 jurisdictions.

Practice areas

• Arbitration
• Banking and finance
• Civil
• Corporate
• Credit recovery
• Criminal and administrative offenses
• Employment law
• Family minors and successions
• Intellectual property
• Litigation
• Privacy, digital and technology
• Public
• Real estate, tourism and construction
• Sports
• Tax
• Biomedical law