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AA’s activity revolves around the main areas of Business Law: from Commercial Contracts to Financial Law, including Project Finance, from Corporate Law to Securities Law, or, further still, from Public Law to Administrative Litigation. Most of AA’s Clients are International Corporations and some of the most relevant Portuguese groups. AA also provides legal counsel to domestic and foreign Government Agencies.

AA traditionally maintains a strong connection with the University of Lisbon, as it was founded by two Professors of Law: Professor Ruy de Albuquerque (1933-2007), a leading figure in the academic world and among law practitioners, and Professor Martim de Albuquerque.

Pedro de Albuquerque is also a Professor at the Faculty of Law of Lisbon, and has held several positions on the board of the governing bodies of the Faculty of Law of the University of Lisbon.

Alexandre de Albuquerque and Paulo de Almeida were both academically active and taught for several years at the Faculty of Law of the University of Lisbon. Alexandre de Albuquerque also taught at the Faculty of Law of the Portuguese Catholic University. Other lawyers in the firm also lecture Law at these Universities, notably Professors Maria de Lurdes Pereira and Sónia Gemas Donário.

AA’s main guiding principle is the quality of its legal services (quality index) - assessed from a scientific perspective and practical perspective - establishing if the services rendered provide efficient solutions for Clients’ real needs and objectives - and always seeking to combine the two.

In order to achieve this aim, AA’s lawyers, in addition to their traditional academic careers, devote great attention to each Client’s particular business and activity in every market.

AA has always sought to establish a special relationship with every Client, so that they may stand as the true witnesses of the quality of their work.

For this reason, one of the principal sources of the firm’s new Clients are AA’s current Clients or Clients who have used AA’s services in the past. AA not only renders its Clients legal services of a very high standard while establishing with them a special relationship, but its founders have also incorporated solid deontology into the firm’s everyday work.

Although AA works regularly and closely with prominent Law Firms across Europe, the USA and the Pacific Region, it has remained independent and has not entered into any exclusive partnerships with foreign law firms.

AA also develops its practice in Africa, namely in Portuguese-speaking African Countries, in particular in the fields of Banking, Corporate, Tax and Employment. AA is the Portuguese firm mentioned in the legal services portal: LexUniversal.com - Global Virtual Law Connection.