Profile

The Firm has the unique characteristic of housing experience of complex legal mandates combined with long-standing academic expertise. Indeed, the firm has successfully embraced lawyers who have chosen to follow full-time careers in legal practice, in conjunction with other partners, associates and trainees who are also established or promising academics. The legal services offered by the firm are therefore clearly enriched by a rich vein of theoretical expertise, whilst remaining focused on the practical problems of contemporary society.

Core Values

Sérvulo & Associados takes pride in its reputation for thorough and effective services, for commitment to its Clients’ causes and interests, and for adherence to the high ethical standards required of law practices.

Rigour

The Firm’s identity is built on rigour, technical capability and a philosophy of sustained and controlled growth, underpinned by a firm belief in quality control. As a rule, our services are provided by a team of lawyers, led by the partner responsible for each area, enabling us to offer our Clients not only the combined benefits of their varying experience and sensibilities, but also the advantages of a youthful, human and flexible organizational structure.

Commitment

Sérvulo & Associados is committed to finding the solution best suited to its Clients’ needs and interests in each individual case, based on sound theoretical and empirical analysis, and informed by experience accrued over many years of legal practice. Our services are further enriched by the high-profile academic connections of many of our lawyers.

We are mindful at all times that quality cannot be dissociated from the usefulness and pertinence of the service provided.

Accessibility

Accessibility and dedication are key features of the Firm’s relationship with its Clients. Accessibility is assured through direct contact between the Client and the lawyer in charge of the brief, and by the existence of a professional team permanently available for monitoring developments.

Ethics

Sérvulo & Associados believes unwaveringly that respect for high ethical standards serves the interest of each and every Client. In our daily work we strive to study each question thoroughly and with the utmost seriousness, zealously guarding our independence and intransigently defending all causes entrusted to us, with the due respect for opponents and the officers of the judicial system.

The Firm currently has more than a hundred lawyers, providing legal services in Portuguese, English, French, German and Spanish.

Global presence

Maintaining its position as an independent Portuguese law firm, SÉRVULO is capable of providing cross border legal services through its membership of several global networks of law firms, including Legalink. SÉRVULO also ensures an international presence through its partnerships with prominent law firms in key Portuguese-speaking jurisdictions, such as Mozambique, Angola, Guinea Bissau, Cape Verde, São Tomé and Príncipe, Brazil, Macao, East Timor, and in the Autonomous Regions of Madeira and Azores (SÉRVULO LATITUDE⦵).