The Firm experience has been linked since its foundation to banking activities. In this area, the Firm has renowned and prominent clients, especially bank institutions and financial companies, both national and international, to which it provides legal advisement in many different aspects of their daily practice, namely in all legal aspects of project finance in which they are involved.
The Firm also supports clients in their businesses and commercial activities, addressing and organizing all corporate aspects, whether advising companies’ bodies on actions to take or in many other different subjects specifically in those related with the emission of securities and transactions, joint ventures, mergers and acquisitions and real estate transfers. The Firm has extensive experience in drafting and negotiating contracts in all areas of law.
The Administrative Law and Public Markets Department provide its services mostly to public companies in the sectors of electricity and geothermal energy. The Firm has a strong background in public procurement for the acquisition of goods and services, with special emphasis on the preparation and analysis of proposals, specifications and public tendering programs, panels and evaluation committees and dispute mechanisms related with the award of contract. In terms of public service concessions the Firm has been specializing, namely in the energy sector, in the preparation of proposals for the construction of geothermal power plants and in the negotiation of contracts for drilling projects, acquiring a great knowledge about the legal regimen of public works contracts.
J. A. Pinto Ribeiro & Associates has acquired a solid experience in public-private partnerships, particularly in the telecommunications area, where, amongst other projects, it had a significant involvement in the legal advisement concerning the planning and arrangements of a partnership between the Portuguese Government and a multinational company for the design and installation of a Radio infrastructure for a TETRA Radio Communication System.
The Firm deepened its expertise in the areas of copyright and intellectual property, particularly in what concerns contractual negotiation and also in pre-litigation and litigation stages, bringing together several clients of the creative and artistic world in the areas of visual arts, music and acting and the creation and production of contents, mainly for television and internet.
The Labour Law Department has solid experience and extensive practice in the new Labour Code.
J. A. Pinto Ribeiro has wide experience in litigation before Judicial Courts, Arbitral Tribunals and Administrative Courts and relies on a qualified team of lawyers with a strong trial capability specialized in these areas. The Firms’ approach to any matter that is brought to its attention involves, necessarily, an analysis of all its potential implications. J. A. Pinto Ribeiro & Associates has achieved significant judicial successes in sensitive areas, such as Corporate and Commercial Law, Labour Law and Competition Law.
Relying on a team with solid academic training and professional experience, the Firm has also been actively involved in legislative reform works, and its members have been invited to join legislative reform committees in a wide range of areas. Several associates of J. A. Pinto Ribeiro & Associates were thus involved in the conception and preparation of draft laws such as: the draft Code of Commercial Companies of Macau, which came to be integrated into the Commercial Code of Macau and entered into force in December 1999; the offshore banking system regimen of Madeira; the regimen of the Decree-Law n.º. 729-F/75 of the 22 of December; the review of the Decree-Law n-º 495/88 of 27 of November; analysis, at the request of the government, of the draft Commercial Code of Mozambique; Decree Against Delays in payments in 2003; Reform of the Enforcement Procedure in 2003, the New Urban Lease Regimen in 2006 and the New Legal Regimen of Urbanization and Construction in 2 007.
