Managing Partner
Founding partner Ricardo Reigada Pereira is the office head, and also heads up the firm's Tax and Real Estate teams.
Biography
His extensive experience includes, in particular, a very strong focus on tax and real estate matters, encompassing a wide array of M&A transactions, private equity, corporate restructurings, structured finance, tax litigation, cross-border insolvency, IP and other intangibles relocation, Pan-European real estate transactions, sale & leaseback and triple net lease transactions.
He worked at Linklaters LLP in Lisbon from 2003 to 2016, where he headed the Real Estate team and was a senior member of the Tax team.
He is a lecturer at the Lisbon University School of Law, the author of academic works and a regular speaker at national and international conferences.
Activity Areas
TAX
Real estate
Languages
Portuguese, English, French and Spanish
Professional Associations
Admitted to the Portuguese Bar Association
Academic education
Graduate in Law – College of Law, University of Lisbon
Doctoral candidate in International Taxation at the Faculty of Law of the University of Lisbon
Rankings and Nominations
Recommended lawyer in Tax (The Legal 500)
Ranked lawyer in Real Estate (Chambers Europe 2022 - Portugal)
Ranked lawyer in Tax (Chambers Europe 2022 - Portugal)
Outstanding practitioner in Tax, according to Euromoney’s Guide to the World’s Leading Tax Advisers
Biography
His extensive experience includes, in particular, a very strong focus on tax and real estate matters, encompassing a wide array of M&A transactions, private equity, corporate restructurings, structured finance, tax litigation, cross-border insolvency, IP and other intangibles relocation, Pan-European real estate transactions, sale & leaseback and triple net lease transactions.
He worked at Linklaters LLP in Lisbon from 2003 to 2016, where he headed the Real Estate team and was a senior member of the Tax team.
He is a lecturer at the Lisbon University School of Law, the author of academic works and a regular speaker at national and international conferences.
Activity Areas
TAX
Real estate
Languages
Portuguese, English, French and Spanish
Professional Associations
Admitted to the Portuguese Bar Association
Academic education
Graduate in Law – College of Law, University of Lisbon
Doctoral candidate in International Taxation at the Faculty of Law of the University of Lisbon
Rankings and Nominations
Recommended lawyer in Tax (The Legal 500)
Ranked lawyer in Real Estate (Chambers Europe 2022 - Portugal)
Ranked lawyer in Tax (Chambers Europe 2022 - Portugal)
Outstanding practitioner in Tax, according to Euromoney’s Guide to the World’s Leading Tax Advisers
Publications
The EC Savings Directive (co-authored with Ana Paula Dourado), edited by Frans Vanistendael, Kluwer (2015)
A Indução da Procura Através da Promoção da Chance Terapêutica - A problemática dos ganhos de chance promovidos pela recomendação médica em tratamentos sem efeito discernível nos pacientes, in Economic Analysis of Law Review (Brasil) and in Estudos em Homenagem ao Professor Saldanha Sanches, Coimbra Editora (Portugal) (2011)
Uma história mal contada (acerca dos esquemas de planeamento fiscal agressivo) in Expresso Newspaper, co-authored with Fernando Araújo (2010)
Entre Tântalo e Sísifo: um objectivo tão próximo mas (inexplicavelmente) ainda longe – Comentário às Conclusões da Advogada-Geral Juliane Kokott no caso C-105/08 Comissão contra República Portuguesa” (co-authored with Fernando Araújo), in Revista de Finanças Públicas e Direito Fiscal - Ano III - Número 2 – Verão, Almedina (2010)
“Portugal-Reasoned Opinions on Exit Taxation and Withholding Tax on Pension Funds” (co-authored with Linklaters colleagues), Practical European Tax Strategies (2009)
“EC Cross-Border Insolvency Regulation Tax Horizon – Watch the Present, It Is Not What It Was!”, European Taxation (2008)
Pending cases filed by Portuguese courts, ECJ – Recent Developments in Direct Taxation (co-authored with Ana Paula Dourado), edited by Michael Lang, Josef Schuch and Claus Staringer, Linde Verlag (2007)
Portugal (new tax legislation), EC Tax Review, Issue 2, Kluwer (2007)
The Taxation of Interest Savings Income in the European Capital Market, edited by Dietmar Aigner, Lars Gläser and Michael Tumpel, Linde Verlag (2006)
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