Litigation and Arbitration

Team specialised in Litigation and Arbitration

The Litigation Department has a team of lawyers with substantial experience in forensic advocacy, representing national and foreign customers before a great variety of types of jurisdictions, national and international, covering, in particular, commercial law, corporate law, civil law, economic regulatory offence law.

PGS Law Firm promotes alternative methods to conflict resolution, including arbitration and intermediation.

Based on its acquired experience PGS has developed its own procedures for control and provision of information to customers on pending legal action.

Activity in this area is, amongst other areas, incident on:

• Contractual and ex-contractual civil liability;
• Corporate disputes, including those arising form the signing, interpretation, implementation and termination of shareholders agreements, corporate and partners’ obligations relative to forms of corporate groups, such as supplementary consortiums, etc.;
• Disputes resulting from the implementation or termination of commercial relations, especially in contracts relative to distribution, agencies, commercial representation, supply, franchising, provision of services, concession and public-private partnerships;
• Responsibility of the different types of economic operators;
• Legal action relative to property, in particular on disputes arising from the implementation and termination of rental contracts, promissory contracts of purchase and sale, termination of operation, provision of real estate services, as well as on onus and charges, co-ownership regimes, possessory actions, claims on property rights and protective restitution and seizure);
• Disputes in the context of civil law, namely division of property, inventories, inheritances and matters pertaining to family;
• Arbitrations;
• Credit recovery, including protective orders, injunctions, declarative action and executive action;
• Debt collection for realization of credit guarantees (pledged property, mortgage, insurance bond, bank guarantee);
• Cases of insolvency, including cases of culpable insolvency and bankruptcy fraud;
• Economic penal law, including corporate liability and the personal liability of the directors or representatives of corporate bodies;
• Regulatory offences, in particular infractions of economic nature or of commercial, industrial or environmental practices.