Gonçalo Cerqueira Simões
Lawyer • Lisbon
Gonçalo Cerqueira Simões is a lawyer and has been with Abreu Advogados since 2021, focusing primarily on real estate law and urban planning matters.
He plays a key role in drafting and reviewing real estate contracts, ensuring their compliance with current legislation, and actively participates in due diligence processes to assess risk in real estate transactions.
He also has experience analysing and drafting documents related to real estate transactions, specifically purchase and sale agreements and lease agreements, as well as drafting and registering deeds, mortgages, and other legal documents related to real estate.
He has extensive experience in the legal registration of urban and rural properties, property modifications, the establishment and modification of condominium properties, building annexations, and other instruments for the establishment and modification of real property rights.
As a solicitor, he developed his professional practice with a particular focus on the areas of Registry and Notarial Law, Real Estate Law, and Commercial Law.
Experience
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Advising real estate developers on the development and marketing of tourism projects;
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Advising companies and individuals on contractual matters, particularly in overseeing the negotiation of purchase and sale agreements;
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Providing legal advice on the creation of easements, usufruct, and other real property rights;
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Previously served as a Notary Public, focusing on the areas of Registry and Notarial Law, Real Estate Law, and Commercial Law;
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Secondment program at a multinational company, focusing on real estate law—specifically the negotiation, acquisition, sale, and management of real estate – dand at a condominium management and administration company;
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Providing legal counsel to clients in real estate title regularization proceedings, including land registry and property title regularization;
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Drafting of contracts related to Real Estate Law.
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Advising on the analysis of land management instruments and their regulatory framework.
Education
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Instituto Superior de Contabilidade e Administração de Lisboa – ISCAL
Degree in Registry and Notary (2021)
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Universidade Lusíada de Lisboa
Post-Graduation in Registry and Notary Law (2022)
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Nova School of Law
Law degree (2024)
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