Judgment of the Court of Appeal of Porto of 2014-11-06
Insolvency proceedings – Creditors of the insolvent debtor – Termination of proceedings – No need to adjudicate on the action
Judgment of the Supreme Court of Justice No 15/2014, published in Diário da República (Portuguese official gazette) No 24 of 2014-12-22
Insolvency – Insolvency Administrator – Presumption of bad faith
Portaria (Ordinance) No 261/2014 - Diário da República (Portuguese official gazette) No 242/2014, Series I of 2014-12-16
Amending for the first time the Regulation of the Local Support and Micro-company Incentive Scheme.
Reviewing the legal framework of urban lease.
Decision of the Supreme Court of Justice, No 117-B/1999.P1.S1., of 2015-01-08 Transforming companies – Partner – Resignation – Liquidation of the company – Judicial ruling – Feasibility – Decision
In this decision, the Supreme Court of Justice (“STJ”) was asked to give ruling on the feasibility of the decision that was presented as an enforceable title, which was delivered within a special procedure of liquidation of an equity interest presented by a creditor partner against a debtor company.
Decree-law no. 26/2015, dated 6 February 2015, enacted a set of measures aimed at creating more favourable conditions in Portugal for restructuring companies that are undergoing economic/financial difficulties as well as for implementing long-term funding facilities and introducing new instruments regarding their re-capitalization. This set of measures forms a system – called SIREVE – designed to recover companies (the company) in financial difficulties or about to apply for restructuring to be implemented outside of insolvency court proceedings.
Judgment of the Court of Appeal of Lisbon of 02-06-2015
Interpretation of the intentions of a commercial company – Attribution of communications by members of corporate bodies – Signatures
DOING BUSINESS IN PORTUGAL A legal and tax perspective This guide provides general information to investors intending to operate in Portugal on legal issues on which they may need advice. It is not intended, and cannot be considered, as a comprehensive and detailed analysis of Portuguese law or, under any circumstances, as legal advice from Cuatrecasas, Gonçalves Pereira. This guide was drafted on the basis of information available as of October, 2015. Cuatrecasas, Gonçalves Pereira is under no obligation and assumes no responsibility to update this information. All rights reserved.
The Fiduciary Duties of Directors
When a company enters the zone of insolvency (the so-called “twilight zone”), conflicts of interest between the company, its shareholders and the different stakeholders, such as creditors, are ignited and the pressure on directors for contradictory forms of action is intensified.
Judgement No. 362/2015 - Official Gazette No. 186/2015, Series II of 09/23/2015
The Constitutional Court ruled unconstitutional the provision of Article 100 of the Insolvency and Corporate Recovery Code, approved by Decree-Law No. 53/2004, of March 18, if interpreted as the declaration of insolvency provided therein suspends the limitation deadline of tax debts attributable to the responsible subsidiary responsible person according to the tax procedure.
Judgment of the Supreme Court of 08/10/2015
Judgment of the Court of Appeal of Porto of October 8, 2015
Culpable insolvency – Duration of disqualification of the insolvent party