Before Portugal, I spent years inside startups, investment funds and crypto companies as General Counsel and Chief Compliance Officer.
Different world, but the lesson carried over. The expensive problems are almost never the dramatic ones. They are structural. Something set up wrong at the start and discovered years later, usually at the worst possible moment.
That experience shapes how I look at Portugal now.
The questions international clients bring here are rarely just about buying a house. They are investor questions. Should the property be owned personally, through a company, or through a holding structure?
What does each option mean for tax today, and what does it mean at the point of sale? For clients relocating, how do residency and tax residency interact with the investment? And what happens to the whole structure if circumstances change in five years?
A property purchase in Portugal is an investment decision. The purchase itself is the easy part. The structure around it determines whether value is protected or quietly lost.
This is the approach at LV Law. We treat an acquisition the way a fund would treat a deal. Due diligence first, structure second, signature last.
And if a structure is unnecessary, we say so directly. Sometimes the right answer is the simple one.
Different world, but the lesson carried over. The expensive problems are almost never the dramatic ones. They are structural. Something set up wrong at the start and discovered years later, usually at the worst possible moment.
That experience shapes how I look at Portugal now.
The questions international clients bring here are rarely just about buying a house. They are investor questions. Should the property be owned personally, through a company, or through a holding structure?
What does each option mean for tax today, and what does it mean at the point of sale? For clients relocating, how do residency and tax residency interact with the investment? And what happens to the whole structure if circumstances change in five years?
A property purchase in Portugal is an investment decision. The purchase itself is the easy part. The structure around it determines whether value is protected or quietly lost.
This is the approach at LV Law. We treat an acquisition the way a fund would treat a deal. Due diligence first, structure second, signature last.
And if a structure is unnecessary, we say so directly. Sometimes the right answer is the simple one.