Avenida 5 de Outubro,
n. 17, 8th and 9th floors
1050-047 Lisbon
Portugal
Tel: +351 21 319 06 40
Fax: +351 21 319 06 44
Email: bcslaw@bcs.pt
Web: www.bcs.pt
Number of partners: 3
Number of fee earners: 15
Firm profile:
The reason behind the setting of BCS Advogados in 1997 was its founding partners' willingness to create a strong, unified and coherent newly formed structure of expert lawyers deeply focused in business law issues, an area in which they already had strong skills and relevant professional background.
In 2010, Baião, Castro & Associados, alongside with Lotti e Araújo Sociedade de Advogados (Brazil), Allonca Esquível Abogados (Argentina), Adarve Corporación Jurídica (Spain), Abdala & Cia. Abogados (Chile) and Angulo Flores y Asociados (Mexico) has agreed to establish a partnership that ensures mutual presence in the referred countries, with offices, inter alia, in Lisbon, Rio de Janeiro, Sao Paulo, Buenos Aires, Madrid, Barcelona, Santiago and Mexico City.
Areas of practice:
BCS Advogados positions itself as a personalized and specialized Legal Services' boutique, namely in the following areas:
Business law
Banking and Finance, Capital Markets
Corporate and Commercial
Real Estate, Construction and Public Law
Litigation
Judicial litigation
Arbitration
Besides private individuals and families, the firm's client portfolio includes banks, mutual fund management companies, asset management companies and other financial entities, holding companies and entities operating in the following sectors: restaurants and hotels, information technology, air transportation, real estate management, real estate promotion, construction, utilities, environment and natural resources, media contents, commerce of vehicles, sale and rental of construction equipment, agricultural and food production and wine and beverages.
People
Business law department
A) Banking and Finance (including Project Finance) and Capital Markets led by partner Felipe Baião do Nascimento.
B) Corporate and commercial (including M&A). Headed by partner Victor de Castro Nunes.
C) Real Estate, Construction and Public Law. Headed by Senior Associate Margarida Lima.
Litigation department
The Litigation Department is led by Ana Paula Matos Martins (Partner)
Languages spoken:
Portuguese, English, French, Italian, Spanish.