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Key contacts
Managing Partner: Bruno Ferreira
Quick facts
# Partners

46

# Other qualified practitioners

+250

Languages

7

Network memberships

IBA, WLG, WSG, INTA, ECTA

Key practice areas
Banking and finance
Banking
Project finance
Capital markets
Financial and corporate
Corporate and M&A
Restructuring and insolvency
M&A
M&A - Foreign
Financial and corporate - Foreign
M&A - Foreign
Banking and finance - Foreign
Project finance - Foreign
Banking - Foreign
Restructuring and insolvency - Foreign
Capital markets - Foreign
Firm overview

PLMJ is a law firm based in Portugal that combines a full service offering with bespoke legal craftsmanship. For more than 50 years, the firm has been shaping bold and creative solutions to defend its clients' interests effectively.

The firm supports clients in all areas of law, often through multidisciplinary teams, acting as a strategic business partner in key decision-making processes.

PLMJ has specialist lawyers with deep sector and market knowledge who maintain close relationships with regulators. The firm's services are organised into practice areas, sectors and desks, with specialist teams working seamlessly together.

PLMJ Colab

PLMJ created PLMJ Colab, a collaborative network of law firms across Portugal and other countries with cultural and strategic ties to Portugal. Through this network, the firm provides coordinated responses to clients' international challenges.

PLMJ Colab includes:

  • Angola: PLMJ Colab Angola – RVA Advogados
  • Mozambique: PLMJ Colab Mozambique – NMP Advogados

These partnerships combine local expertise with access to more than 300 lawyers based in Portugal.

Key practice areas
  • Banking
  • Capital markets: Debt
  • Capital markets: Equity
  • Financial services regulatory
  • M&A
  • Private equity
  • Project development
  • Project finance
  • Real estate finance
  • Real estate funds
  • Restructuring and insolvency
  • Securitisation
Sector expertise

  • Agriculture
  • Aviation
  • Automotive
  • Banking
  • Construction and materials
  • Energy
  • Government and public policy
  • Healthcare
  • Industrials
  • Insurance
  • Media
  • Mining
  • Natural resources
  • Oil and gas
  • Pharmaceutical and life sciences
  • Real estate
  • Social infrastructure
  • Technology and telecommunications
  • Tourism
  • Transport
Other offices

PORTO OFFICE

Porto Office Park | Torre A – 8º Piso
Av. de Sidónio Pais, 153
Porto 4100-467
Portugal

T: (+351) 226 074 700
E:plmjlaw@plmj.pt
W: https://www.plmj.com/en/

FARO OFFICE

R. Reitor Teixeira Guedes, 11A
Faro 8000-422
Portugal

T: (+351) 289 887 630
E: plmjlaw@plmj.pt
W: https://www.plmj.com/en/

LUANDA OFFICE (PLMJ COLAB ANGOLA – RVA ADVOGADOS)

Edifício Escom, Piso 13, Fracção B
R. Marechal Brós Tito, 35-37
Luanda
Angola

T: (+244) 935 147 570
E:geral@rvaangola.com
W: https://www.rvaangola.com/en/

MAPUTO OFFICE (PLMJ COLAB MOZAMBIQUE – NMP ADVOGADOS)

Edifício Platinum
Rua de Kassuende, nº 210, 5º andar
Maputo
Mozambique

E: geral@nmpmozambique.com
W: https://www.nmpmozambique.com/en/#

Address:
Av. Fontes Pereira de Melo
43 1050-119
Portugal
Tel:+351 213 197 300 Email:Contact Us Web Address:https://www.plmj.com/en/
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Deal Highlights
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Deal Name Deal Date Firm Name Jurisdiction Deal Type Lawyer Names Client Names Client Role
Arrow Global Finance - Bond Issue
2021-02-01
PLMJ
United Kingdom
Bond issue
Arrow Global Finance
Issuer
BayQi - M&A
2022-02-24
PLMJ
Angola
M&A
Rúben Brigolas, Januário Macamba
BayQi
Target
Be Water - Project development
2022-02-24
PLMJ
Angola
Project development
Diogo Duarte de Campos, Emmanuel da Silva
Be Water
Project developer
Recherche Exploitation Produits - M&A
2022-02-24
PLMJ
Angola
M&A
Rúben Brigolas
Recherche Exploitation Produits
Investor
Refriango - Joint venture
2022-02-24
PLMJ
Angola
Joint venture
Inês Pinto da Costa, Rúben Brigolas, Januário Macamba, Célia Vieira de Freitas
Refriango
Joint venture partner
Tadiáfrica; Dicorp; Sociedade Mineira do Furi - Project development
2021-02-28
PLMJ
Angola
Project development
Rúben Brigolas
Tadiáfrica, Dicorp, Sociedade Mineira do Furi
Project developer
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Spanish firm recruits partner from Portuguese rival
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Leading partner and corporate team switches from Cuatrecasas
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Portuguese firm appoints new head of capital markets team
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