Sérvulo & Associados in Iberian Lawyer

NEWS AND EVENTS

Lisbon-based Sérvulo has looked to expand its practice spread in recent years, but its core focus on government and projects work means that it now faces a window of opportunity, say its lawyers.

At a time when big ticket private company and transactional work is in decline, government and public authority-led projects have reemerged as among the most attractive client opportunities now confronting law firms. State and regional stimulus and redevelopment programmes, particularly those focused on energy and infrastructure projects, are putting greater emphasis on firm’s public and administrative law capabilities. For Lisbon-based Sérvulo this is neither breaking news nor cause for a strategic rethink. The firm is long-regarded as Portugal’s pre-eminent public law practice. Founded by one of the pioneers in the field, Professor José Manuel Sérvulo Correia, over the past decade it has featured prominently in virtually all of the country’s headline public and administrative law deals.Ten years on, the firm may have expanded well beyond this core expertise but nonetheless the current economic situation
plays very well to the firm’s strengths.

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