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Lisbon, 2020 CONFIDENTIAL

www.caiadoguerreiro.com
PROFILE
Caiado Guerreiro is a multi-jurisdictional law firm that provides legal services in
all areas of Law, being highly recognized by the quality of its services.

The firm possesses a vast experience in providing legal services and legal
consulting at both national and international level.

Among Caiado Guerreiro’s clients are included both commercial and industrial
companies as well as services companies, coming from all fields of activity,
such as banks and other financial institutions, insurance companies, industrial
companies, public entities and other organizations, as well as private clients.
THE MOST DIVERSE PORTUGUESE LAW FIRM
61.5% OF OUR PARTNERS ARE WOMEN

Caiado Guerreiro was highlighted as the Portuguese


law firm with the highest percentage of female
partners in the article “Gender Gap Ranking
Portugal: Breaking The Glass Ceiling” published in
the Iberian Lawyer magazine where the topic
addressed focused on inequalities between men and
women in the legal sector.

With this study by Iberian Lawyer magazine, Caiado


Guerreiro shows once again its vanguard position in
promoting women’s rights in advocacy, creating
conditions for them to grow professionally and
supporting their development in the sector.

IN IBERIAN LAWYER MAGAZINE, SEPTEMBER 2020


OUR OFFICES

LISBON PORTO FARO


PORTUGAL PORTUGAL PORTUGAL

LUANDA MAPUTO
ANGOLA MOZAMBIQUE

REPRESENTATIVE OFFICES São Paulo | Rio de Janeiro| La Valleta | Pequim


SOME OF OUR CLIENTS (CONFIDENTIAL)
OUR WORK & WHAT WE CAN DO FOR YOU

Caiado Guerreiro has a solid experience providing legal assistance to clients on matters connected to every practice area,
from Corporate to Pharmaceutical Law, Competition Law, Employment Law, Tax Law, Dispute Resolution, Project
Management, Banking and Finance, and so on.

We have been assisting clients from different industries' backgrounds in some major operations in Portugal, thus creating a
team with a deep understanding of and know-how of the sectors of activity in which our clients operate.

Caiado Guerreiro’s lawyers stand out for their legal knowledge and expertise regarding the field of activities in which our
clients work, assuring the best advice possible to our clients. Our assistance during due diligence procedures, the negotiation
process and every step of the transaction provides a very effective solution to our clients’ needs.
CORPORATE DEPARTMENT

Advising clients on acquisitions, mergers and restructurings is undoubtedly one of the firm’s most important areas of focus, counting on a team with
vast experience and technical specialized knowledge.

Caiado Guerreiro has assisted some of the main M&A operations executed in the last decades in Portugal, thus acquiring a solid experience in this
area, which, allied with the technical knowledge and the command of the current legislation, provides a very effective solution to the clients’ needs.

We have a highly focused team of lawyers in our Corporate department which has great experience advising commercial and industrial clients
regarding complex corporate transactions.

The team is experienced in both domestic and cross-border deals, often involving many different jurisdictions and diverse areas of expertise. In
addition to transactional work, our corporate teams provide regular assistance in the different aspects of the ongoing commercial activities of our
clients.
DISPUTE RESOLUTION DEPARTMENT

The litigation and arbitration department tends to be organized in specialized groups, which allows swift and adequate responses to the queries of
our clients, regardless of the specificities and complexity of the matters, this way ensuring a permanent and specialized assistance in many
proceedings.

Caiado Guerreiro understands that not all disputes and conflicts need to be settled before a court of law and that alternative methods of dispute
resolution have become increasingly important in the last decade. Therefore, Caiado Guerreiro has a team of well-trained professionals, in all legal
fields, who have a deep understanding of national and international laws as well as practical experience in litigation and arbitration, whichever is
the most suitable for the settlement of the case.

Our litigation department has a strong background in debt recovery, including mass litigation, guided by efficiency and professionalism and
focused on defending our client best interests.
EMPLOYMENT LAW
< DEPARTMENT

Our law firm has developed expertise in those areas that are increasingly important to our clients, such as employee benefits, flexibility of
employment contracts, organization of work time, wage structure, pensions and other models of retirement protection and benefits.

In accordance with the gradually increasing flexibility of Portuguese labour law, our firm has been involved in some of the major restructuring
processes of the Portuguese economy, including several collective dismissal procedures based on structural or technological grounds and lay-
off procedures.

The firm’s Employment department also has vast experience derived from its permanent involvement in mergers and acquisitions transactions,
“outsourcing” and transfers of facilities, departments or branches.

The Employment and Social Security Law department of Caiado Guerreiro is recognised by the main international directories, amongst which
Legal 500, Chambers & Partners and ACQ 5.
TAX DEPARTMENT

With one of the largest tax law departments in Portugal, Caiado Guerreiro provides advice on all taxes, in particular corporate income tax,
personal income tax, VAT, excise duties, and stamp duty and on issues ranging from transfer pricing to double taxation.

Tax litigation, both at an administrative or judicial level, is one of the main areas of the department, whose activity and importance is reflected
on the high success rate achieved. Caiado Guerreiro assists their clients from prevention of litigation to its settlement, representing them in
Court, as well as in arbitration settlement of disputes.

The Tax Restructuring department and the Tax Litigation practice area of Caiado Guerreiro are recognised by the main international
directories, amongst which Legal 500, Chambers & Partners and ACQ 5.
PHARMACEUTICAL LAW DEPARTMENT

As a regulated sector of activity, the matters involving pharmaceutical law require a highly specialized legal knowledge. Caiado Guerreiro has a
dedicated team of lawyers, with deep understanding of the areas subject to regulation within this field.

Our Life Sciences & Pharmaceutical Law department is familiar with the operating mode and intertwining relationship of the regulating
authorities as well as with the associations of the pharmaceutical sector. Our lawyers are conversant with marketing authorization issues,
clinical trials, wholesale distribution, price setting, cost sharing and drug related intellectual property rights.

In addition, Caiado Guerreiro has been representing national and international companies operating all around the world, dedicated to the
development of innovative products and treatments in the biopharmaceutical sectors. Caiado Guerreiro’s Life Sciences and Pharmaceutical
practice area is recognised by the main international directories, amongst which Legal 500, Chambers & Partners and ACQ 5.
SPORTS LAW DEPARTMENT

Caiado Guerreiro has been developing, for several years, a know-how specifically related to the practice of sports, offering its clients legal
advice tailored to the specificity of their needs.

With the growing relevance of Sports Law within the national and international scope, Caiado Guerreiro has lawyers that attend to public
limited sport corporations, athletes, intermediaries and FIFA agents, as well as all other sports agents and other entities connected to the
sports world, providing legal support in the drafting of contracts, as well as in the management of their respective image rights and trademark
protection.

Such knowledge seems to be even more relevant in the current context, of great instability regarding the future of sports professionals, of
sports competitions, and of the regulation of contractual issues between sports agents, as well as between sports entities and television and
related organizations.
IP DEPARTMENT

The Intellectual Property and Copyright team is formed by lawyers with extensive experience in consulting in matters of national and
international intellectual property, copyright, brands and trademarks, judicial or not judicial.

The intellectual property team focus on the acquisition and maintenance of intellectual property’s rights, as well as on the compliance and its
protection in case of breach and on the drafting of licensing agreements.

Maintaining close contact with the INPI and other organizations, Caiado Guerreiro has devoted a significant effort on the protection of their
clients’ rights, assisting them whenever it is necessary on the registry of brands and trademarks, on the licensing of the rights to explore such
rights, as well as on the litigation or on out-of-court settlement of disputes subsequent to their breach.
BANKING AND FINANCE DEPARTMENT
Caiado Guerreiro is one of the most active Portuguese law firms in the banking and finance sector. The firm has been representing some of the
most prestigious international banks, both in permanent assistance and in a wide range of specific transactions, also assisting several securities
and real estate investment funds and institutional investors in a wide range of transactions and operations, including the incorporation of such
entities.

The experience acquired is one if the tools used to assist the clients in their banking and financial activities. The firm’s expertise and know-how
in all major innovation areas of the financial and banking sector has assured its ongoing participation in special projects such as structured
finance, securitization and derivatives.

The Banking e Corporate Finance department of Caiado Guerreiro is recognized by the main international directories, amongst which Legal
500, Chambers & Partners and ACQ 5.
ENERGY DEPARTMENT

Caiado Guerreiro has a vast experience working with the Energy sector in Portugal and abroad, mainly in what concerns public tenders,
regulatory matters, financing of energy projects, tax law, contracts and corporate matters.

Our Energy team has experience in projects related to production, transport and transmission regarding all technologies, assistance to the
implantation and licensing of production and distribution of energy projects, such as renewable energy power plants, pipelines and transport
terminals of liquefied natural gas (LNG), legal advice in the sector of renewable energy and transactions regarding the development of
photovoltaic plants (PV) and wind power, as well as on exploitation and production of oil and gas and on refining, transport and trade of oil
products.
OUR TMT DEPARTMENT

Caiado Guerreiro provides counselling services in areas related to communications, media and information technologies sectors (TMT), this way
creating, the necessary conditions for an integrated and multidisciplinary approach, which increases the quality of services provided to its clients.

This team’s lawyers have a large experience, widely recognized, providing legal advice to companies, operators and investors, both national and
international, in the sectors of telecommunications, media and information technologies, in areas which range from regulation of electronic
communications, television and social communication, to acquisition and licensing of software, including e-commerce, copyright, data protection,
outsourcing agreements of information systems and electronic signatures.

The TMT practice area works closely with the Intellectual Property team, which has earned justified recognition both at national and international
level, that way strengthening the response to the problems that increasingly arise in the intellectual property protection domain, in new
information technologies and communication.
CAPITAL MARKETS

Caiado Guerreiro’s Capital Markets team is formed by a group of skilled and specialised Lawyers with experience in IPOs and other equity and
debt offerings, collective investment undertakings, pension funds, securitization and derivatives. In particular, we give our legal advice on
securities law matters, having important experience assisting in the issuance and admission of securities to trading in regulated and non-
regulated markets.

An area that has seen a renovated interest is the one related to the incorporation, activity and management of collective investment
undertakings more commonly known as investment funds, in particular Real Estate Investment Funds and Special Investment Funds, as well as
in structuring other financial instruments.

Our multi-disciplinary team is prepared to assist its clients with their projects since day one, and to keep providing legal assistance in relation to
the activity of such entities.
REAL ESTATE DEPARTMENT

Caiado Guerreiro advises and assists a wide range of real estate operations, having the necessary resources and know-how to assist their
clients in their business deals, on both national and international levels.

With a well-known ability to integrate complex transactions, we handle all the life-cycle of the real estate property, from its acquisition,
development, renting to financing, being present in all stages necessary to close the business deal.

We are also involved in all construction industry sectors, which allows a network management of ideas and resources between the sectors.
Furthermore, Caiado Guerreiro acts in the forefront technological areas, such as the renewable energy, carbon reduction technologies, being
constantly developing new concepts and contracting structures.
IMMIGRATION LAW

Our multidisciplinary team provides specialized advice to international clients regarding, in particular, the conditions and procedures for entry,
stay, departure and removal of foreign nationals in the national territory, as well as the entry and stay of national citizens in foreign territory.

In the past few years, Caiado Guerreiro has provided legal advice to international clients, including large corporations, governments and
private individuals.

We often deal with complex legal questions and restructuring projects, having an excellent relationship with the Foreigners and Borders
Service and other public bodies.
AWARDS AND RECOGNITIONS

In 2020, Caiado Guerreiro has been once again recognized as one of the leading law firms in
Portugal by Chambers and Partners and The Legal 500.

Our firm was also awarded several times by different directories:


AWARDS AND NOMINATIONS

"The lawyers are responsive, proactive "The firm is always very diligent, responsive
and adapt to the needs of the clients. and accurate with high ethical standards. It
They have knowledge and experience." is also technically very careful."

"A very good service - the team has been


"The team works fast and with close
advising and defending us in a very good
contact, offering a practical vision."
manner."
Dispute Resolution Law Firm Of The Year in Portugal Corporate Adviser Of The Year in Portugal

Intellectual Property Firm Of The Year in Portugal Sustained Excellence in Litigation – Portugal

Corporate Law Firm Of The in Portugal Best Immigration Law Firm Of The Year in Portugal

Tax Law Firm Of The Year in Portugal Best in Tax Litigation Of The Year in Portugal

Competition Law Firm Of The Year in Portugal Most Exceptional Business in Portugal

TMT Law Firm Of The Year in Portugal Best Multi-Disciplined Law Practice

Aviation Law Firm Of The Year in Portugal Sustained Excellence in M&A Law

Energy Law Firm Of The Year in Portugal M&A Law Firm Of The Year in Portugal

Excellence in Health & Pharmaceutical Law IT Law Firm Of The Year in Portugal

Real Estate Law Firm Of The Year in Portugal Capital Markets Law Firm Of The Year in Portugal

Employment Law Firm Of The Year in Portugal Corporate Law Firm Of The Year in Portugal

Cyber Security Law Firm Of The Year in Portugal Tax Law Firm Of The Year in Portugal
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Rua Castilho, 39 - 15º Rua Augusto Rosa, 79 Rua de Santo António,
1250-068 Lisboa 4000-098 nº2 A - 1º piso
T: +351 213 717 000 Porto, Portugal 8000-283 Faro
F: +351 213 717 001 T: +351 220 185 568 T: +351 289 102 458

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