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Directive (EU) 2019/1937 of the European Parliament and of the Council of October 23, 2019, on the protection of persons who report breaches of Union law (the “Directive”) was [...]

Overview of Portuguese Corporate Governance Portugal’s general corporate governance framework is provided by the Portuguese Companies Code (PCC) and the Portuguese Securities Code (PSC), which [...]

The immigration and border services of Cascais and the Municipality have implemented a new cooperation protocol to notify British citizens to proceed with their biometric data collection for [...]

João G. Gil Figueira, partner at GFDL, commented the latest news about Portuguese banks closing bank accounts of crypto businesses in Portugal on CoinDesk. The article is available here.

Order No. 7048/2022, of June 2nd, 2022, issued by the Portuguese Government, provides the new list of entities to be scrutinized by the Large Taxpayers Unit of the Portuguese Tax Authorities [...]

Last week’s discussion between the Government and the social stakeholders ended without fully agreeing on the “decent work agenda.” Nevertheless, the Government Cabinet approved [...]

The rules in debate Portuguese tax resident individuals are liable to Personal Income Tax on their worldwide income.  The Non-habitual Resident (“NHR”) residency regime allows for an exemption on [...]

Virtual or crypto assets (including cryptocurrencies) are a recent asset class that has attracted many investors. They are the most visible and well-known aspect of blockchain as a technological [...]

Portuguese Constitutional Court strikes down Metadata Law The Constitutional Court has retroactively ruled Articles 4, 6 and 9 of the Law n. 32/2008 of July 17th, (“Metadata Law”) to be [...]

The Portuguese Supreme Court of Justice issued a Jurisprudence Uniformization Decision dated March 22nd, 2022, increasing the likeness of litigation for both individual property owners and [...]