PLMJ has always been involved in the myriad operations related to the setting up, licensing, building, marketing and use of shopping centres and retail parks or other types of shopping complexes and has lawyers who are highly specialised in providing legal services to clients in this sector of activity.

These PLMJ lawyers specialised in advising clients operating in shopping centres and retail parks are fully familiar with the legal, contractual and commercial specifics of the sector and PLMJ is capable of combining the necessary skills and specialisation expertise for any particular matter in real estate law, building and planning law, tax, finance and commercial law to provide a full range of services based on the issues and particularities of each shopping centre and retail park.

The practice and experience of the lawyers in this sector of activity includes setting up and obtaining commercial licences for shopping units, promoting and building shopping centres and their planning and environmental permits as well as the drafting of the gamut of contracts associated with this sector, including the preparation and negotiation of contracts of use for shops in shopping centres or the marketing of commercial areas under franchising contracts or other contract types.

These PLMJ lawyers are also skilled at implementing, structuring and optimising all types of companies and financing related to the setting up, building, ownership and marketing of shopping centres and retail parks. The firm is internationally recognised as a leading firm in Portugal for real estate operations and transfers of this type of property, regardless of their complexity.