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Miguel de Azeredo Perdigão

Miguel de Azeredo Perdigão

Partner and Managing Partner
Areas of Specialisation
  • Trade and Company Law
  • Restructuring, Mergers and Acquisitions
  • Fiscal Law and Tax Litigation
  • Urbanism, Real Estate, Construction, Real Estate Promotion and Tourism
  • Pharmaceuticals and Health Care
  • Transports and Maritime Law
Professional Career
  • Licentiate Degree in Law from the Portuguese Catholic University Law School;
  • Founder and Member of the 1st Directorate of the Portuguese Catholic University Student Association;
  • Collaborator on the Board for Marketing to Private Individuals of the Ocidental Insurance Company;
  • Collaborator on the Board for Marketing to Private Individuals of the Banco Comercial Português;
  • Associate Lawyer of the Law Firm Cuatrecasas, Gonçalves Pereira e Associados;
  • Partner and Managing-Partner of the Law Firm Azeredo Perdigão & Associados;
  • Secretary-General and Lawyer of the Association of Real Estate Promoters, which includes among its members the largest and most prestigious companies in the real estate sector;
  • Member of the Supervisory Board of Cateringpor - Catering de Portugal, SA;
  • Practical Course in Tax Law
Published Works
  • Co-Author of Company Law in Portugal (1993), published by the renowned English publishing house, Butterworths Publishers, which summarised the Portuguese Company Law;
  • Author of Pensions in Europe/Portugal (1993), published in collaboration with the largest English law firm - Clifford Chance;
  • Author of Guide to Invest in Portugal (1994), published by the law firm Azeredo Perdigão & Associados;
  • Author of article entitled Groups of Companies in Portugal: A Parent's Liability for Debts of its Subsidiaries, (April-1995), published in the specialised magazine International Company and Commercial Law Review (ICCL), which analyses the important subject of the liability of Parent/Holding Companies for the debts of the Daughter/Held Companies, in relation to Groups of Companies in Portugal;
  • Co-Author of the book OBRAS PÚBLICAS - do Pagamento do Prémio pela Conclusão Antecipada da Empreitada (PUBLIC WORKS – the Payment of a Premium for Early Completion of a Contract Job), compiling LEGAL INFORMATION and ATTEMPTED CONCILIATION, which the law firm AZEREDO PERDIGÃO & ASSOCIADOS prepared and presented to the Higher Council of Public Works and Transports, as well as the LEGAL OPINIONS requested from Professors Diogo Freitas do Amaral and Sérvulo Correia, at the request of our client – the Consortium "TECNOVIA - SOCIEDADE DE EMPREITADAS, S.A. / CONSTRUTORA DO LENA, S.A." – on the calculation, due date and possibility of demanding the payment of a PREMIUM for the completion of the contract for the highway construction works on "IC 17 - Cintura Regional Interna de Lisboa, Lanço Olival de Basto - Sacavém e Ligação a Frielas ao Grilo" before the end of the corresponding contract period;
  • Author of the book A Reforma da Tributação do Património (Reform of the Tax on Patrimony), published by Vida Económica.
Activities and Offices
  • Member and Representative in Portugal of JuristEurope-Business Lawyers (Associação Europeia de Advogados de Negócios);
  • Member of International Chamber of Commerce (ICC);
  • Member of International Fiscal Association (IFA);
  • Member of UK Chamber of Commerce;
  • Member of the French-Portuguese Chamber of Commerce.