The firm was founded back in the late sixties by António Maria Pereira and Luís Sáragga Leal, who were joined in the early 1970s by new partners Francisco de Oliveira Martins and José Miguel Júdice.
The international expansion and specialisation policies that the firm has pursued from the outset led to its steady growth in the years to follow and to the dominant position it currently holds in the Portuguese legal market.

The firm’s sustained growth was achieved both through its internal policies and a dynamic recruiting policy aimed at attracting lawyers with a sound academic background and professional experience in the different branches of law.internal growth policy is that new partners and associates are chosen each year, thus giving younger lawyers the opportunity to take on new and demanding professional challenges.