PLMJ Law Firm

Portuguese law firm

PLMJHeadquarters| Avenida Fontes Pereira de Melo, 43, Lisbon, Portugal

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No. of offices| 9 offices across 10 countries[1]
No. of lawyers| 280 (April 2019)[2][3]
Major practice areas| _Banking and finance

_Capital markets _Corporate M&A _Criminal law and compliance _Dispute resolution and arbitration _EU and competition law _Healthcare, life sciences & pharmaceuticals _Intellectual property _Labour _Projects and energy _Public law _Real estate, planning and tourism _Tax and family wealth

_Technology and privacy[4]
Date founded| 1967 (Lisbon, Portugal)
Website| www.plmj.com

PLMJ is a Portuguese law firm with its headquarters in Lisbon.

PLMJ is a full-service, multidisciplinary firm advising Portuguese and multinational businesses, and financial and state institutions on a range of domestic and international transactions. More than 280 lawyers including 57 partners and around 100 support staff work in PLMJ's nine offices spread across seven countries in Europe, Africa and Asia.[5][1]

PLMJ is a member of World Services Group and World Law Group, two international multidisciplinary professional services networks of independent accounting and law firms.[5][6]

## History

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PLMJ headquarters in Lisbon, Portugal.

The firm PLMJ was founded in Lisbon in 1967, with the association between partners António Maria Pereira and Luís Sáragga Leal and, in the next decade, they were joined by new partners Francisco de Oliveira Martins and José Miguel Júdice.

In 1998, PLMJ moved to its current headquarters in Avenida da Liberdade, in the centre of Lisbon, at a time when it already had more than 100 lawyers. The new century marked the beginning of PLMJ's national expansion with the opening of offices in Faro in the Algarve in 2000 and two years later in the northern city of Oporto.

PLMJ began its international expansion in 2010 with the opening of the law firm Gabinete Legal Angola followed by TTA-Sociedade de Advogados the year after. In 2011, PLMJ established a partnership with DSL Lawyers in Macau, creating a network of international partners, PLMJ International Legal Network. In 2013 the firm opened a representative office in Switzerland and in March 2015 in the United Kingdom.

The policies of internationalisation and specialisation pursued by PLMJ since its first beginnings led to the firm's sustained growth.[7]

## PLMJ Colab

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PLMJ has built a network of partners in Portuguese-speaking countries and in the principal target markets for Portuguese investors, to provide legal advice without borders.

PLMJ Network is present in Angola, Mozambique, Brazil, Macau, Guinea-Bissau, São Tomé and Príncipe and Cape Verde but also extends to the main source markets for investment in Portuguese-speaking countries, principally China and the countries of Central and Eastern Europe.[8]

## PLMJ National Joint Ventures

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PLMJ has offices in Lisbon, Oporto and Faro and provides support through a National Partners Network in Coimbra, the Azores, Guimarães and Madeira.[9]

## Awards and Rankings

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PLMJ was named Law Firm of the Year in Portugal by the Chambers Europe Awards for Excellence 2014, an award it also won in 2012 and 2009.[10] Also in 2014, it was named one of the leading and most innovative firms in Continental Europe according to the Financial Times.[11] The Firm was also named Iberian Law Firm of the Year 2015 by the British magazine The Lawyer. PLMJ also won this award in 2012.[12][13][14]

Many PLMJ lawyers are recognised by the leading international directories including Chambers and Partners Europe and Global, Legal 500, IFLR 1000 and Best Lawyers.[15][16][17]

## PLMJ Foundation

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The PLMJ Foundation is a non-profit institution that is a patrono of the visual arts in Portugal and other Portuguese-speaking countries.

The Foundation had its beginnings in the late 1990s. The firm began a collection of paintings, drawings and sculpture, which was later broadened to include photography and video. Under the motto “A law firm as a space for culture”, this collection became the PLMJ Foundation at the beginning of 2000.

The PLMJ Foundation was declared to be an institution of higher cultural interest by the Portuguese Minister of Culture and plays an important role in promoting visual arts in Portugal and in African countries where Portuguese is the official language. The PLMJ Foundation also focuses on supporting young artists and is already one of the major players on the Portuguese cultural scene.[18] It is a source of discovery and promotion of contemporary artists in Portugal, Angola and Mozambique.

The Foundation's objective is to raise the profile of visual arts in Portugal by making regular acquisitions to build a collection that illustrates modern artistic output in the country. Its collections[19] host artworks by well-known artists alongside the work of those at the beginning of their careers. This means the PLMJ Foundation boasts a wide variety of works in different media with their roots in a multitude of approaches to process and aesthetics.[19]

The PLMJ Foundation also acts as a publisher and an exhibition organiser, again with a focus on young artists from every area of the visual arts. The embodiment of this approach is the multidisciplinary Opções & Futuros (Options & Futures) project begun in 2005.[20][21][22] [23] In addition to its own activities, the Foundation also seeks to support or participate in the projects of other entities that fall within the objectives of its programme.

## References

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1. ^ a b The PLMJ Network PLMJ Law Firm. Retrieved 30 January 2015.
2. ^ Team PLMJ Law Firm. Retrieved 30 January 2015.
3. ^ PLMJ in Numbers PLMJ Law Firm. Retrieved 30 January 2015.
4. ^ Areas of Expertise[permanent dead link] PLMJ Law Firm. Retrieved 30 January 2015.
5. ^ a b WLG World Law Group. Retrieved 12 February 2014.
6. ^ Firm Overview - PLMJ World Services Group. Retrieved 2 February 2015.
7. ^ The Lawyer European 100 The Lawyer. Retrieved 26 May 2014.
8. ^ Countries, Members PLMJ International Legal Network. Retrieved 30 January 2015.
9. ^ PLMJ National Joint Ventures In-Lex. 2015. p. 57. Retrieved 9 March 2015.
10. ^ Chambers Europe Awards for Excellence Chambers and Partners. Retrieved 9 March 2015.
11. ^ Financial Times Innovative Lawyers Financial Times. 2014. p. 11. Retrieved 12 February 2014.
12. ^ The Lawyer European Awards 2015 Archived 2015-04-15 at the Wayback Machine The Lawyer. Retrieved 20 March 2015.
13. ^ The Lawyer European Awards 2012 The Lawyer. Retrieved 30 October 2012.
14. ^ The Lawyer European Awards 2012: the winners Dutch Caribbean Legal Portal. Retrieved 17 November 2012.
15. ^ PLMJ, Law Firm Chambers and Partners. Retrieved 9 March 2015.
16. ^ The Legal 500: Europe, Middle East & Africa - Portugal The Legal 500. Retrieved 20 March 2015.
17. ^ Best Lawyers in Portugal Best Lawyers. Retrieved 21 March 2015.
18. ^ Mercado de arte português esfriou, mas não está morto Jornal de Negócios. Retrieved 30 March 2013.
19. ^ a b Coleções Archived 2015-04-02 at the Wayback Machine PLMJ Foundation. Retrieved 20 March 2015.
20. ^ «Opções & Futuros» até 14 de Março no Espaço Fundação PLMJ Archived 2015-04-17 at the Wayback Machine Diário Digital. Retrieved 23 January 2009.
21. ^ Opções & Futuros #5: Obras da Colecção da Fundação PLMJ - Aquisições Recentes Público - Guia do Lazer. Retrieved 1 February 2010.
22. ^ Outras Exposições Archived 2015-04-17 at the Wayback Machine PLMJ Foundation. Retrieved 20 March 2015.
23. ^ "Personal Injury Solicitors Manchester, UK | Brian Barr Solicitors". brianbarr.co.uk. Retrieved 2025-03-29.

## External links

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* PLMJ Law Firm
* Law Offices of C. Ray Carlson

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