Administrative Law

Our law firm provides specialized legal services in Administrative Law, Employment Law, Insolvency Law and other relevant areas. With a technical approach aligned with international standards, we focus on delivering advisory and representation in litigation and consultancy, ensuring compliance with national legislation, European Union (EU) regulations and international guidelines, with particular emphasis on defending the interests of public entities, companies and individuals.

Practice Areas

Administrative Law and Administrative Litigation

We act in litigation against the Public Administration, safeguarding rights and interests in proceedings, including pre-contractual disputes. Our services include:

Challenge of administrative acts: hierarchical appeals, complaints and judicial challenges, with rigorous analysis of legality.
Public procurement: advisory on public tenders, public-private partnerships (PPP) and contract awards, including analysis of specifications and pre-contractual and contractual litigation.
Administrative liability: representation in extra-contractual civil liability actions against public entities, including claims for damages caused by unlawful administrative acts.

Regulation and Compliance

Urban planning and land-use regulation: licensing of construction works, expropriations and protection of property rights against administrative decisions.
Administrative inspections: challenge of administrative offence notices and negotiation of settlements with authorities at all stages of the process.
Advisory in administrative procedures: legal support throughout all phases of administrative proceedings, from submission of applications, requests or authorizations to interaction with public entities.
Drafting of documents, interpretation of regulations, applications for licences and requests for certifications or operating authorizations.

Other Relevant Areas

Environmental Law: consultancy on compliance with environmental liability regulations and representation in litigation related to environmental licensing.
Urban Planning Law: advisory on urban planning, construction licensing and litigation concerning territorial management instruments.
Intellectual Property in an Administrative Context: support in registrations and litigation involving trademarks and patents before public entities such as the Portuguese National Institute of Industrial Property (INPI).
Challenge of administrative licensing decisions: resolution of disputes related to refusal, revocation or conditioning of administrative licences (commercial operating licences, environmental authorizations, denied building permits). We represent clients in challenging such decisions, analysing procedural compliance with the law and defending their rights through administrative appeals or judicial actions, with the aim of obtaining the licence or reversing the decision.
Challenge of decisions in public sector recruitment and career progression: contesting irregularities in selection processes or discrimination that violate principles of transparency, equality or merit.
Challenge of fines and regulatory sanctions: representation in contesting sanctions, analysing the legality of decisions and defending client interests in court.
Tax-related administrative litigation: challenge of administrative acts issued by the Tax and Customs Authority that underpin tax decisions, contesting additional tax assessments based on invalid administrative acts (e.g., poorly reasoned tax inspections), ensuring taxpayer rights protection in administrative or judicial proceedings.
Fundamental rights in an administrative context: resolution of disputes involving violations of fundamental rights by the Public Administration, challenging decisions that restrict freedom of expression, association or property, and any acts that breach constitutional guarantees.