STRUCTURING • LEGAL • BOUTIQUE
80+
Years of combined expertise
5
CONTINENTS
Cross-border matters closed worldwide
2+
OFFICES
100%
focus on our clients
Providing direction,
Navigating complexity
The best outcomes emerge where legal expertise, strategic judgment, and commercial insight converge.
Opportunities often fail not from lack of ambition, but from the gap between advice and execution. SLawB was built to close that gap.
We combine deep legal expertise, real business acumen, and hands-on market experience to help our clients achieve their goals.
At SLawB you will find a full-service firm, which, together with an established and trustworthy partnership network, can provide you with a single point of contact while structuring your endeavours.
M&A
We advise on the full lifecycle of mergers, acquisitions, and corporate reorganizations — from structuring and due diligence to negotiation and closing, protecting your interests and creating lasting value.
Real Estate
From financing and acquisition through development and disposal, we structure real estate transactions with an eye on regulatory, tax, and cross-border complexity. We support investors, developers, and funds throughout the asset's full lifecycle.
Private Clients
We advise individuals and families on wealth structuring, succession planning, immigration topics and cross-border tax matters. Our approach balances legal precision with discretion and long-term perspective.
Litigation
We represent clients in complex criminal, commercial, tax, and other disputes, protecting clients' interests in the long term.
Tax
We provide tax advice across international and domestic structures, from transaction structuring to ongoing compliance and dispute resolution. Our expertise spans EU and cross-border tax law, with particular depth in complex, multi-jurisdictional matters.
AI Solutions
Transforming legal and business products alongside the present ever-changing context. From compliance to contracting and governance, we bring rigor to a fast-evolving landscape.
Lobbying
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We support clients in engaging with regulators and policymakers, helping shape and respond to legislative and regulatory developments that affect their business. Our work combines legal insight with strategic institutional relationships.
Market
Placement
Entering or exiting an investment, we are happy to share our contact base, and help bridging legal structuring with market access and execution.
Funding
Brokerage
We connect clients with the right funding sources — from private capital to institutional financing — and structure the terms that make those relationships work. Our focus is aligning capital needs with the most suitable providers and structures.
Financial Services
Our Financial Services practice provides specialized legal counsel to corporate clients, asset managers and other financial institutions acting in the financial market.
Public Law
We deliver strategic legal advice with strong expertise in administrative law matters.
José Maria Cabral Sacadura
ManaginG Partner | M&A, Financial Services & Tax |
Lisbon | Law
José Maria Cabral Sacadura is an international business lawyer with a two-decade experience in US, UK, Benelux and Iberian big law and consulting firms. Over the course of his career, he has advised asset managers, financing institutions, multinational corporations, entrepreneurs and private investors, on matters involving i.a. corporate structuring, taxation, governance, and long-term business growth. His practice combines international perspective, technical rigor, and a pragmatic approach to solving sophisticated legal challenges across multiple jurisdictions.
Partner | Litigation, Private Clients & Public Law |
Lisbon | Law
Diogo Alvim combines a solid litigation practice with high-complexity legal advisory, with particular focus on Civil and Commercial Litigation, Public Law, Criminal and Economic Law, Real Estate, and Insolvency and Corporate Recovery. Over the last c. 20 years, he has handled some of the most high-profile criminal cases in Portugal and regularly advises on matters of significant legal, financial, or reputational complexity. His experience as General Counsel and Board Advisor gave him privileged insight into governance, decision-making, and risk management — an outlook he later complemented with executive education in Management and Leadership at AESE Business School. He likewise maintains an established Private Clients practice, advising entrepreneurs and families on wealth structuring, succession, and matters of particular sensitivity, with a hallmark of trust, discretion, and long-term support.
Pedro Dias Marques
Partner | Real Estate, Lobbying & Private Clients |
Lisbon | Law
Pedro Dias Marques focuses on Real Estate, Lobbying and Private Clients, advising domestic and international investors, companies and individuals on real estate transactions, investment projects and cross-border legal matters.
Over the course of his career, he has co-founded several law firms and built a practice around a pragmatic approach to complex transactions. He regularly advises clients on structuring and executing complex matters in Portugal and abroad.
Pedro is also the founder of Nuvem Vitória, an association recognised by the European Parliament for its social impact, and a regular legal commentator in the media.
Partner | Market Placement, Funding Brokerage & AI Solutions |
LISBON | BUSINESS
António Aranha is an International business strategist, seed investor and growth leader with extensive experience in developing market opportunities, forging strategic alliances, and supporting high-impact ventures across multiple industries — particularly technology and AI-driven solutions. Recognized for bridging innovation and execution, helping organizations unlock new revenue streams, expand internationally, and create long-term sustainable value. With professional experience spanning Asia, Africa, Europe, and Latin America, combines global insight, entrepreneurial thinking, and a strong ability to navigate complex business environments and multicultural ecosystems.
Carlo Magnoni
OF COUNSEL | MARKET PLACEMENT & FUNDING BROKERAGE |
MADRID | BUSINESS
Carlo Magnoni is a real estate executive, advisor and investor with over €3.5bn of executed transactions in various European countries, working with both small, dynamic local companies and investors as well as global leading institutional funds. He has originated, underwritten, financed, asset managed and sold real estate properties across different asset classes, including residential, office, hotel, retail and short stay/serviced apartments. Carlo is currently board member and director of several Spanish and Italian real estate companies.
Julio Romero
MANAGING Associate | M&A, Real Estate & Private Clients |
Madrid | Law
Julio Romero is a corporate and commercial lawyer with over five years of experience advising companies on a wide range of legal matters. He holds a Law degree from the University of Seville, a Master’s in Business Legal Advisory, and the qualifying Master’s degree for the practice of law in Spain. He has also completed specialized training in legal due diligence in M&A transactions.
