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Expertise

Your global opportunities start here.

At CS Next Law, we provide expert legal guidance for individuals, families, and businesses navigating immigration, real estate, and cross-border legal matters.

  • We help individuals, their families, and their advisors navigate the legal complexities of immigration and citizenship in Portugal. In a world of uncertainty, individuals and families want to maximize their choices—both in terms of lifestyle and opportunities. Mobility facilitates those choices. There are many immigration options that deliver flexibility, integrity, certainty of outcome, and strategic long and short-term benefits. Selecting the right solution for you and your family can be a complex process—we are here to help make it simple.

     

    CS Next Law is a trusted immigration advisor. We provide the guidance and service you need to seize your global opportunities, maximizing your potential and minimizing risks. Our team of experienced immigration lawyers and professionals helps individuals devise an immigration strategy and prepare and file their visa applications accurately and efficiently, including:

    • Students

    • Retirees

    • Families

    • Executives

    • Professionals

    • Artists

    • Athletes

    • Entrepreneurs

    • Investors

    • High and ultra-high net worth individuals

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    Our compliance-focused and risk management-driven approach delivers comprehensive solutions and a seamless immigration experience for you, your family, and your advisors.

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    Our teams provide sophisticated and cross-jurisdictional guidance on all immigration options, including:

    • Investor migration (Golden Visa)

    • Passive Income Visa (D7 Visa)

    • Entrepreneur migration (Digital Nomad Visa)

    • Family and ancestral migration

    • Student migration

    • Temporary and permanent residency

    • Passport and citizenship

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    Our thoughtful, bespoke solutions are tailored to your personal circumstances, desired region, preferred lifestyle, and a range of other factors. We can support you with the full range of immigration requirements in your destination country, including:

    • Personalized advice and counsel on strategies and options

    • Government filings

    • Assistance maintaining residency or citizenship upon arrival

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    We also provide legal advice in the context of family law and succession law, inheritance and succession planning, tax planning, heritage management, family and investment companies.

  • Obtaining Portuguese nationality is a significant milestone for individuals looking to fully integrate into life in Portugal. Whether you’re seeking to secure your residency rights, gain access to the benefits of Portuguese citizenship, or explore new professional and personal opportunities, at CS Next Law we are here to simplify the process and guide you every step of the way. 

     

    Anyone can apply for Portuguese nationality, but the eligibility requirements vary depending on your background and legal situation. The most common pathways include: 

    1. Portuguese citizenship through marriage

    2. Portuguese citizenship through naturalisation

    3. Portuguese citizenship through descendant

    4. Citizens of former Portuguese territories

    5. Portuguese citizens who lost their citizenship

  • Covering all aspects of tax advice necessary in Portugal being it on a personal or corporate level, our in-depth knowledge of the Portuguese tax environment and of major international tax systems enables us to provide our clients with effective answers and solutions in personal, commercial and patrimonial tax matters.

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    • International tax structures

    • Guidance on personal (IRS) and corporate tax (IRC)

    • Property taxes: anual proerty tax (IMI), stamp duty (IS), property transfer tax (IMT) and capital gains tax

    • Gift tax

    • Local accomodation taxation

    • Obtention of Portuguese tax number (NIF)

    • Tax representation

    • Tax residency

    • Tax benefits

    • Other tax matters matters

  • With a specialized focus on real estate transactions, we offer comprehensive legal solutions and strategic advice to our clients at all stages of the process.

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    We represent primary investors and developers in the market handling projects from their inception. We service our clients in the process of buying, selling, operating, and redeveloping all types of Real Estate assets. Through all procedural challenges, licensing, and construction, we work with projects such as logistics parks, shopping centers and retail parks, residential developments, hotels, and various types of tourism.

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    Our reputation is based on the quality of our services, professional ethics, and commitment to excellence. Being aware of the importance of real estate transactions, we strive to ensure legal certainty, minimize risks, and maximize benefits for our clients in every transaction.

    Our team has extensive experience in complex real estate transactions, financing, tax structuring, due diligence, project development, acquisitions and divestitures, commercial leasing, and real estate dispute resolution.

  • In business, as it is in life, there is no ‘one-size-fits-all’ formula. Every industry, and each business model within that industry, is unique. It’s our job to help you identify, and protect, your uniqueness.

    We take a holistic approach when working alongside you, and your business endeavours, and take the time to understand your future ambitions, operations, key stakeholders, and industry, enabling us to offer you the best possible representation and advice. We also understand that as the business law evolves, so must our service.

    Our team will guide you through each step, whether you are starting a new company, expanding, taking on new partners, going national or global, or about to enter the share market.

     

    Whatever your business, and wherever you plan on taking it, you can be certain of our support, expertise, and confidentiality.

     

    Our legal support includes, among others:

     

    • Incoporation of Portuguese companies and branches

    • Contracts, agreements and business transactions

    • Business structuring and asset protection

    • Companies

    • Partnerships

    • Shareholders agreements

    • Taxation

    • Leases

    • Intellectual property

    • Franchising

    • Employment Law

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