Rigour

Trust

Competence

Results

Since 1980
Law Firm

Castelo & Associados

Our Law Firm office was born in 1980 and has provided since that date advocacy services with various processes and clients from various points of the country, as well as in other geographical locations with special focus in France, Palop`s, Francophone Africa, China, Macau and United Arab Emirates.

We permanently strive for the excellence and rigour of the judicial service we provide always with high ethical sense and total, freedom and independence, guiding our action towards satisfying the expectations of our clients and in the defence of people’s interest.

Our activity in the judicial market is in practical terms multidisciplinary in the various branches of the law, where we have a vast experience in the civil litigation, criminal, commercial, labour, administrative and fiscal areas, which represents a capital gain for our clients, to whom we guarantee the defence of their rights at the various courts, always looking to meet or go beyond our clients expectations.

Our firm is an interdisciplinary advocacy project with valence in all areas of the law, as an original plan the defence of causes and response to the needs of all that search for our help: people, social organizations, companies and public entities.

MesSage

We defend your cause

For us, being a lawyer is defending the causes and interests of those who seek us, as well as advising, supporting and helping to achieve your goals with the best possible outcome. Therefore, we orient ourselves and we choose competence, effectiveness, commitment and availability as primordial elements for the exercise of the profession.

With confidence and demand

In order to achieve what we propose, we assume it is indispensable to cultivate a personalized and close relationship with the customer based on mutual trust. As a corollary of the demand we have in the profession, we assure our clients strict confidentiality and the absence of conflicts of interest in all matters entrusted to us.

Always focused on results

We have been in advocacy for over three decades, always following and maintaining since then the same values ​​of competence, responsibility, proximity, availability and reliability, allied to a permanent and qualified training, in order to obtain the best solutions in the present and being prepared to face the challenges of the future.

Areas of activity

Specialized Consultancy

CASTELO & ASSOCIADOS advises its clients in areas of high level of specialization.  Our experience grows according to the needs of our clients, where each case is a challenge in which we will focus on the best results.

Labour
Law
CIVIL
LIABILITY
FAMILY AND
JUVENILE LAW
LITIGATION
CRIMINAL AND
OFFENSELAW
REAL ESTATE
LAW
IMMIGRATION AND NATIONALITY
ROAD TRAFFIC AND MISDEMEANOUR LAW
AGRICULTURe AND FOREST LAW
REGISTRY AND NOTARY
GLOBAL FINANCES AND INTERNATIONALIZATION
CREDIT RECOVERY AND EXECUTIVE PROCESS
SUCCESSION
LAW
Commercial and Corporate law
Administrative
law
Fiscal
Law
Our Team

Trust in our Specialists

CASTELO & ASSOCIADOS, brings together a team of qualified professionals who are dedicated to providing its clients with legal advice in a wide range of law branches, providing innovation and creative solutions to its clients.

Manuel J. Castelo

Founding Partner

• Degree in Law (“Universidade de Coimbra” 1977)
• Ombudsman for “Santa Casa da Misericórdia de Benavente” (1995-2000)
• President of the Supervisory Board for “Santa Casa da Misericórdia de Benavente” (1992 - 1994 and 2001 - 2003)
• President for the delegation of the Law Bar of Benavente (2005-2007)
• Registered in the Portuguese Law Bar since 1980

Languages:

• Portuguese | French
• Spanish

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Alexandre Castelo

Partner

• Degree in Law (“Universidade Autónoma” of Lisbon, 2006)
• Post-Graduation in Administrative Litigation (“Faculdade de Direito da Universidade Católica Portuguesa”, 2010)
• Post-Graduation in Commercial Company Law  (“Faculdade de Direito da Universidade Católica Portuguesa”, 2014)
• Registered in the Portuguese Law Bar since 2009

Languages:

• Portuguese | French
• English
• Spanish

Contacts:
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Vanessa Castelo

Partner

• Degree in Law (“Universidade Autónoma” of Lisbon 2007)
• Post-Graduation in Tax Law (“Universidade Autónoma” of Lisbon 2010)
• Post-Graduation in Law e Notarial Practice (“Universidade Autónoma” of Lisbon 2011)
• Registered in the Portuguese Law Bar since 2010

Languages:

• Portuguese | French
• Spanish

Contacts:
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Monteiro Nunes

Partner

• Degree in Law (“Universidade Autónoma” of Lisbon 1999)
• President of the Chamber of Commerce Portugal – Guiné Bissau (2018)
• President of the General Meeting Board of Sport Clube Glória do Ribatejo (2008-2014)
• Member of the Benavente Bar Association Delegation (2005-2007)
• Registered in the Portuguese Law Bar since 2002

Languages:

• Portuguese
• English
• Spanish

Contacts:
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Mónica Salvador

Lawyer

• Degree in Law (“Faculdade de Direito da Universidade de Lisboa”, 2015)
• Master Degree in Litigation (“Faculdade de Direito da Universidade Católica Portuguesa”, 2017)
• Internship at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MNE, 2016)
• Registered in the Portuguese Law Bar since 2018

Languages:

• Portuguese
• English
• Spanish

Ana G. Domingos

Trainee Lawyer

• Degree in Law (“Faculdade de Direito da Universidade de Lisboa”, 2017)
• Notary assistant at the Notary’s Office Dra. Joana Azevedo, Vila Franca de Xira (2017-2018)
• Internship at Castelo & Associados, Sociedade de Advogados, SP, RL, (2018)
• Registered in the Portuguese Law Bar as a Trainee Lawyer since 2018

LAnguages:

• Portuguese
• English
• Spanish

Ana Fonseca

Administrative and Financial Assistant

For financial planning and effective management control (essential in the decisions to be taken), Castelo & Associados includes in its team a professional dedicated exclusively to the financial and administrative management of the company. The customers are the main beneficiaries of this specialized monitoring.
• Forensic Secretariat Course (“Citeforma” and Bar Association 2007)
• Document management an Archive course (“Cesu – Centro de Ensino Secundário e Universitário” 2014)

LAnguages:

• Portuguese
• English

Contacts:
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Manuel J. Castelo

Manuel J. Castelo

Founding Partner

• Degree in Law (“Universidade de Coimbra” 1977)
• Ombudsman for “Santa Casa da Misericórdia de Benavente” (1995-2000)
• President of the Supervisory Board for “Santa Casa da Misericórdia de Benavente” (1992 - 1994 and 2001 - 2003)
• President for the delegation of the Law Bar of Benavente (2005-2007)
• Registered in the Portuguese Law Bar since 1980

LAnguages:

• Portuguese | French
• Spanish

Contacts:
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Alexandre Castelo

Alexandre Castelo

Partner

• Degree in Law (“Universidade Autónoma” of Lisbon, 2006)
• Post-Graduation in Administrative Litigation (“Faculdade de Direito da Universidade Católica Portuguesa”, 2010)
• Post-Graduation in Commercial Company Law  (“Faculdade de Direito da Universidade Católica Portuguesa”, 2014)
• Registered in the Portuguese Law Bar since 2009

LAnguages:

• Portuguese | French
• English

Contacts:
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Vanessa Castelo

Vanessa Castelo

Partner

• Degree in Law (“Universidade Autónoma” of Lisbon 2007)
• Post-Graduation in Tax Law (“Universidade Autónoma” of Lisbon 2010)
• Post-Graduation in Law e Notarial Practice (“Universidade Autónoma” of Lisbon 2011)
• Registered in the Portuguese Law Bar since 2010

LAnguages:

• Portuguese | French
• Spanish

Contacts:
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Monteiro Nunes

Monteiro Nunes

Partner

• Degree in Law (“Universidade Autónoma” of Lisbon 1999)
• President of the Chamber of Commerce Portugal – Guiné Bissau (2018)
• President of the General Meeting Board of Sport Clube Glória do Ribatejo (2008-2014)
• Member of the Benavente Bar Association Delegation (2005-2007)
• Registered in the Portuguese Law Bar since 2002

LAnguages:

• Portuguese
• English
• Spanish

Contacts:
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Mónica Salvador

Mónica Salvador

Lawyer

• Degree in Law (“Faculdade de Direito da Universidade de Lisboa”, 2015)
• Master Degree in Litigation (“Faculdade de Direito da Universidade Católica Portuguesa”, 2017)
• Internship at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MNE, 2016)
• Registered in the Portuguese Law Bar since 2018

LAnguages:

• Portuguese
• English
• Spanish

Ana G. Domingos

Ana G. Domingos

Trainee Lawyer

• Degree in Law (“Faculdade de Direito da Universidade de Lisboa”, 2017)
• Notary assistant at the Notary’s Office Dra. Joana Azevedo, Vila Franca de Xira (2017-2018)
• Internship at Castelo & Associados, Sociedade de Advogados, SP, RL, (2018)
• Registered in the Portuguese Law Bar as a Trainee Lawyer since 2018

LAnguages:

• Portuguese
• English
• Spanish

Ana Fonseca

Ana Fonseca

Administrative and Financial Assistant

For financial planning and effective management control (essential in the decisions to be taken), Castelo & Associados includes in its team a professional dedicated exclusively to the financial and administrative management of the company. The customers are the main beneficiaries of this specialized monitoring.
• Forensic Secretariat Course (“Citeforma” and Bar Association 2007)
• Document management an Archive course (“Cesu – Centro de Ensino Secundário e Universitário” 2014)

LAnguages:

• Portuguese
• English

Contacts:
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Pro bono

Serve without expecting to receive

The expression «Pro Bono» derives from Latin and means "for the good”.

Our law firm, for many years has undertaken the fulfilment of Pro-Bono service as an ethic, civic social consciousness duty. We daily seek to participate in the fulfilment of justice through the contribution that we are able to give to citizens who are in greater need in the fight for their defence and safeguard of their rights.

Following this line we have always cultivated a legal and forensic practice of advocacy based on the idea that justice does not choose between the poor or the rich. Justice is for all without exception.

Therefore we provide advisory service and judicial assistance to individuals and institutions that, objectively, we believe are in such situations, always within the same standards of quality in which we usually advise our clients.

"Beings to whom we serve are for us a support in life."

- Marie Eschenbach -
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Av. Francisco Calheiros Lopes, 32
2130 – 014 Benavente
T. +351 263 516 565
F. +351 263 516 077

Vila Franca de Xira

Rua Alves Redol, 90 - 3º Dto.
2600 – 098 Vila Franca de Xira
T. +351 263 274 186
F. +351 263 273 718

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