Event speakers defend market opening

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“Internationalization is more than a necessity, it is an inevitable consequence. If offices do not follow their clients, who are moving to other countries, they will lose them, as the client will find another office that will support them. Legal advice is like marriage, when we like it, it’s for life.” The statement was made by Portuguese lawyer Nuno Albuquerque in a lecture at Fenalaw — exhibition and conferences for the legal market.  


He is a partner at the law firm Nuno Albuquerque, Deolinda Ribas Sociedade de Advogados, from Portugal, inserted in Angola for five years and arriving in Brazil, for the first time, in search of partnerships.

According to him, with globalization, it is inevitable that legal markets in Brazil, Europe or North America will open up to each other. He compares the legal world with the trade of products: Europe imports products from China without limitations. “Advocacy tends to follow this path.”

The principles and rules relating Chile Phone Number to how to be a lawyer should not be lost in the internationalization process, according to the lawyer, but if lawyers around the world close themselves off and flatly refuse global change, “we are going to be in trouble”.

According to Albuquerque, Brazilian lawyers should not be afraid of foreign firms. The reasons: Brazilian offices can accompany their clients and establish themselves in other countries and can do this through partnerships with offices in other countries. “Internationalization should not be seen only as an opening or invasion from abroad into Brazil, it should also be seen as a way of leaving here to abroad.”

He also stated that internationalization must be seen in a positive way, a way to add knowledge and not to “take clients away from national offices”.



Lawyer Carlos Miguel Castex Aidar, partner at Issor SBZ Advogados, says he is completely in favor of the opening of foreign law in Brazil: “I am against the conservative position of the current Brazilian Bar Association”. He also participated in Fenalaw this Tuesday (10/16).

For him, it is impossible to work within an international concept of law, without foreign partners. He also cites article 5, item XVII of the Federal Constitution, which provides freedom of association, as long as the purposes are lawful — two firms that join together to provide legal services fall within the freedom of association covered by the Constitution.