"OneLegal is an innovative platform for legal services that integrates law firms and individual lawyers, with a presence for many years in the Portuguese-speaking market, namely in Portugal, Angola, Mozambique, Cape Verde and Timor-Leste", says that entity in communicated.
Created in an already post-pandemic environment, the platform arises from the need for these lawyers “to formalize a professional relationship that exists between all, enhancing the provision of a single service and aggregating all the jurisdictions where they are present”, the note says.
In this way, OneLegal "embodies a joint activity, which has long been dedicated to providing a high quality legal service in corporate law, with a comprehensive view of the various Portuguese-speaking jurisdictions where they are present", and allows "to respond to the demanding challenges" from customers in various industries, "in real time and in an inclusive way", he adds.
Lawyer Rui Amendoeira, one of the founders of the OneLegal platform, quoted in the note, highlights the importance of investing in these "historical and linguistically united jurisdictions", and emphasizes that the platform's members are "destined to work with international investors", in economic development sectors, such as infrastructure, banking, energy, oil & gas, real estate and construction, transport, projects, commercial contracts, corporate law, public law, restructuring, insolvency and debt recovery and private clients.
"Being able to provide a legal advisory service, by digital means, brings clients closer to lawyers and facilitates the workflow, ensuring effective partnerships, with meeting appointments by digital means through our website, or webinars that promote debates on important issues to be these Portuguese-speaking countries", he says.
The lawyers who are part of OneLegal also belong to various professional and sectoral associations and networks of "vital importance for the economy of the countries where they are present".
Thus, for Rui Amendoeira "one of the great advantages of this project, and the reason for its existence, is to make a unique service model real. The OneLegal platform brings together law firms and lawyers with extensive experience in their areas of practice and in the various jurisdictions where provide advice, knowing in depth the socio-economic realities of the countries where they work".
"Each client project is unique and requires the perfect combination of experience and know-how. Therefore, our lawyers are all independent and, therefore, our offer is not restricted to a brand, a model, or a customer service", he concludes.
