LAW FIRM PRINCIPLES DESCRIPTION

3. Our Identity
• Technical Cogency, Teamwork and Global Legal Services
CNCM - CURADO, NOGUEIRA, COSTA MENDES & ASSOCIADOS
(CNCM) bases the performance of its activity in a set of
fundamental principles, focused in the full satisfaction of the
needs of its Clients: Technical Cogency, Teamwork and the
capacity of providing Global Legal Services.
CNCM aggregates a dynamic, experienced and highly motivated
team fully pledged and compromised with the values of
creativity, innovation and effectiveness of the legal profession.

4. Our Methodology
• Our work is business-oriented
CNCM works as a true business-oriented partner, committed to a
reliable and loyal relationship with its Clients.
Profiting of its long-experience in practicing law as a team, CNCM
Team of Lawyers tries to closely follow the day-to-day life of
each Client, thus capturing the essence of each business so to
actively cooperate in the pursue and implementation, in due
time, of the best legal solution for each case at hand.

5. Our Team
• Our Team is our True Value
CNCM is composed by a flexible team of lawyers with diversified
areas of legal preferences, fully dedicated to the ready
satisfaction of the particular legal needs of each Client.
CNCM upholds a higher degree of partner involvement in the work
done by the Firm - for our clients there is no substitute for
experience.
All lawyers of CNCM have been benefiting from work exposure and
tight contacts with international legal networks, such as Landwell
- Legal Network as well as with international organisations as the
IDI – International Distribution Institute and the ICC - International
Chamber of Commerce, which has allowed for quite some
workload on cross-border operations and has been essential to the
deepening of the Global Legal Services concept.

6. Our Experience
• Our experience with Businesses
Clients of CNCM can rely on our experience in all subjects of
Business Law, both in counselling domestic deals as well as in
supporting direct foreign investment in Portugal or structuring the
internationalisation of Portuguese companies and its deals.
CNCM consistently provides legal support to companies, from its
incorporation and the development of its corporate activity to the
implementing of acquisition and re-structuring operations.

7. Industry Sectors
• Global experience, an added value to the Client
Automotive Industry
Banking and Financial Services
Civil Works and Public Works
Electromechanics Industry, Metal Industry and Engineering
Electronics and IT
Energy, Renewables and Natural Resources
Food and Beverages Industry
Real Estate and Tourism
Research & Development
Services
Transport Industry

8. Preferential Practice Areas
• Global experience, an added value to the Client
Business and Corporate Law
Mergers and Acquisitions
Foreign Direct Investment
Joint Ventures
Public Works, Project Finance and Consortia
Administrative Law
Contracts Law
Distribution, Agency and Franchise Law
Labour Law
Tax Law
Competition Law
Litigation

9. Recent Work
• Legal support to the biggest acquisition of companies in Portugal
in 2008 (EUR 63M)
• Legal advice to the setting up of a optical fibre network for the
city of Porto, Portugal (EUR 80M)
• Legal support to the biggest Portuguese industrial foreign direct
investment in 2008 (Effingham, GA, USA) (>EUR 100M)
• Legal support to transnational mergers of IT multinational
companies
• Legal counselling in Public Works tenders & Project Finance in
Portugal
• Legal support to internationalisation of Portuguese companies –
Joint-Ventures in India, Libya, China, Eastern Europe, Angola,
Brazil, etc.
• Legal advice to several foreign companies in their investment in
Portugal – incorporation of subsidiaries, joint ventures and day-to
day legal advice.

10. Contacts
CNCM - CURADO, NOGUEIRA, COSTA MENDES &
ASSOCIADOS, RL
Avenida da Boavista, 3383 – 8º Torre
Santander
4100-138 Porto Portugal
Tel: +351 22 543 1000
Fax: +351 22 543 1009
www.cncm.pt
Curado, Nogueira, Costa Mendes & Associados – Sociedade de Advogados, RL
AV. DA BOAVISTA, 3383 – 8º TORRE SANTANDER – 4100-138 PORTO PORTUGAL