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Key contacts
Head of the firm's tax practice in Portugal: Serena Cabrita Neto
Quick facts
Number of advisers

27

Network memberships

In Continental Europe, Cuatrecasas have developed a non-exclusive network with three other leading law firms: Chiomenti in Italy, Gide in France and Gleiss Lutz in Germany.

Languages

Portuguese, English, French, Spanish, German

Key practice areas
General corporate tax
Indirect tax
Private client
Tax
Tax controversy
Transactional tax
Firm overview

Cuatrecasas is a well-established international law firm in Portugal, Spain and Latin America. Through a highly specialized legal teams with extensive knowledge and experience, the firm advises on all areas of business law, offering a sectoral approach and focus on all types of business. It helps clients with the most demanding matters wherever they are based.

Key practice areas

Compliance management:

  • Business model optimisation
  • Policy design

Corporate tax matters:

  • Cross-border project management
  • Restructuring
  • APAs
  • Transactions
  • M&A
  • Financial services
  • Corporate taxes
  • Technology
  • Value chains

Dispute resolution:

  • Audit defence
  • Audit support
  • Dispute resolution
  • Pre-litigation
  • MAPs/ADRs
  • Litigation
  • Arbitration
  • Controversy management
  • State aid

Tax advisory:

  • Tax consulting
  • International tax advisory

Indirect tax:

  • VAT
  • Customs
  • Supply chains 
Sector expertise
  • Automotive
  • Energy and infrastructure
  • Financial
  • Hotels and tourism insurance
  • Life sciences
  • Real estate
  • Retail sports and entertainment
  • Strategic sectors
  • Sustainability
  • TMT
Porto office

Porto office
T: +351 22 616 69 20
cuatrecasasPorto@cuatrecasas.com

Tax newsletter and legal flashes
ITR Portuguese Correspondents
Address:
Av. Fontes Pereira de Melo 6
1050-121 Lisboa
Portugal
Tel:+351 21 355 38 00 Email:Contact Us Web Address:http://www.cuatrecasas.com
2026 Edition
General corporate tax
Tier 1
42 firms ranked
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Cuatrecasas
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Baker Tilly
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Manuel Simões de Carvalho
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Indirect tax
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Private client
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Tax controversy
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Cuatrecasas
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Garrigues
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Uría Menéndez
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VdA Vieira de Almeida & Associados
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Abreu Advogados
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CCA Law Firm
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EY
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KPMG
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Ricardo da Palma Borges & Associados
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AFDO
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Gómez-Acebo & Pombo
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PwC
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Sérvulo & Associados
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TELLES
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Tier 4

MdME
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CMS Portugal
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CRS Advogados
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Eversheds Sutherland
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Transactional tax
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Cuatrecasas
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Deloitte
7 practice areas
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EY
7 practice areas
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Garrigues
7 practice areas
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KPMG
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PLMJ
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PwC
7 practice areas
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Uría Menéndez
7 practice areas
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VdA Vieira de Almeida & Associados
6 practice areas
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Abreu Advogados
7 practice areas
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DLA Piper ABBC
6 practice areas
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Durham Agrellos & Associados
7 practice areas
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pbbr
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Overview

Cuatrecasas is one of the best-known Iberian law firms. The Portuguese office houses an impressive tax team, advising on corporate, international, and private client taxation. It is also experienced in financial services taxation, as well as indirect taxes and tax litigation. Partners Pedro Vidal Matos and Gonçalo Bastos Lopes are key contacts. Counsel Ana Helena Farinha is known for corporate tax. Litigator Serena Cabrita Neto is head of tax. Fellow partner José Maria Cabral Sacadura is a revered transactions specialist.  

The firm assisted Bondalti on its public takeover bid of Ercros relating transaction structuring valued at €329,170,316.40. It also advised Banca March on the acquisition of fund manager Serena Industrial Partners through a private equity vehicle. Refinancing on banking receivables involving a special purpose vehicle also featured during the research cycle. 

Partner José Maria Cabral Sacadura joined the firm from Telles in July 2024. Outbound partner António Gaspar Schwalbach departed to Pares Advogados and senior associates Fernando Lança Martins, Daniel Bobos-Radu and Maria Inês Cotrim left the firm in 2024.

Client feedback

‘’Delivers excellent work on time.’’ 

‘’This team, in addition to demonstrating deep technical knowledge, is fast, pragmatic and very accessible.’’ 

Linked Reviews
Tax

Cuatrecasas is one of the best-known Iberian law firms. The Portuguese office houses an impressive tax team, advising on corporate, international, and private client taxation. It is also experienced in financial services taxation, as well as indirect taxes and tax litigation. Partners Pedro Vidal Matos, Ramos, Gonçalo Bastos Lopes, Susana Estêvão Gonçalves and António Gaspar Schwalbach are key contacts. Counsel Ana Helena Farinha is known for corporate tax. Litigator Serena Cabrita Neto is head of tax.

The firm assisted AIG buy-side warranty and indemnity insurance policy on an investment transaction acquired by Davidson Kempner European Partners. It also acted in a landmark litigation case on Portuguese income tax reimbursement.

In June 2023, partner Serena Cabrita Neto arrived as the new head of tax with senior associates, Filipe Duarte Geada and André Areias from PLMJ. The relocated team includes principal tax associate Liliana Piedade. Fellow associates Inês Cardoso Fernandes, João Filipe Rodrigues, Raquel Santos Ferreira, and Francisco Ludovino Reis underwent the transition. Counsel Isabel Garcia and Maria Inês Cotrim joined the firm after SLCM was incorporated. Partner Susana Estêvão Gonçalves was recruited from CMS in 2022.

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