Patrícia Viana

Practice Areas: Real Estate

Industries: Fashion, Luxury & Lifestyle; Shopping Centres & Retail Parks; Construction; Immigration; Tourism & Leisure; Private Clients & Family Businesses

Services: Non-Habitual Resident and Golden Visa in Portugal

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Patrícia Viana has been with Abreu Advogados since 2008 and is a non-executive member of its Board of Directors. A partner since 2016, her practice focuses primarily on real estate transactions.

Between 2006 and 2010 her activity was centred primarily on advising real estate developers in constructions, licensing and sale of residential and tourism development as part of the team responsible for licensing and development of a number of tourism projects.

In 2008 she was in secondment at a real estate fund management firm where she assisted on the day-to-day activities of the managed funds, in the years that followed she participated in the creation and regulation of investment funds in Angola and Portugal.

Since 2014 she has participated in M&A operations as they were related to real estate, especially in the retail area – Shopping Centres – and coordinated due diligence teams and was also involved in the negotiation and closing of the operations in which she was involved.

She has extensive experience in advising on sale & leaseback transactions as well as renting in the context of construction.

She coordinates the real estate practice area at Abreu Advogados since 2016 and is also part of the immigration law subdivision.

Real Estate and Construction: Leading Partner (2025)

Real Estate, Band 4 (2024-2025)

Real Estate and Construction: Next Generation Partner (2022)

Real Estate Law, Portugal (2021-2022)

Real Estate Acquisitions, Notable Practitioner (2021)

Experience

Advising a multinational group in the automotive sector on the preparation and negotiation of leasing and construction of their site in a technological hub;

Advising approximately 500 foreign investors in real estate acquisition operations in the context of the Golden Visa programme and Non-Habitual Residency. This includes due diligence on the assets including urban planning, registration, tourism and condominium issues;

Advising a financial entity on the negotiation and sale of a portfolio of approximately 300 mortgage-backed non-performing loans. She was involved in the drafting and negotiation of the sale and purchase agreement, organization of documents for the execution and draft of the deed;

Advising multinational groups on the acquisition of Forum Sintra, Forum Montijo, Sintra Retail Park, Forum Coimbra, Forum Viseu, Alegro Alfragide and Alegro Setúbal throughout 2014 and 2018. Her services included the legal due diligence on the assets and culminated on the revision and negotiation of all contracts included within the parameters of the operation;

Advising an international investment fund on the acquisition and subsequent leasing (sale & leaseback operation) of a logistics platform;

Advising on the incorporation of real estate investment funds in Angola and o the relationship between the relevant management entities with the supervising entities. This included the legalization of the real estate assets in the portfolio;

Advising national tour operators on the incorporation and licensing of tourism developments, including drafting all regulating instruments and relationships between the owners and the development operator;

Advising a family-owned business on the negotiation and closing of sale & leaseback operations for supermarkets, including prior due diligence of the assets;

Advising on the legalization before the land registry and tax authorities of retail units in Aveiro and Viseu, including carrying out a number of amendments to the titles of incorporation for horizontal property;

Advising on the drafting and negotiation of commercial agreements (joint-venture and association in participation) to develop construction, remodeling and sales of independent units and buildings.

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