Litigation and Arbitration Laws in Cape Verde

Our Law Office acts directly in the most diverse civil and corporate litigation demands, participating in the definition and development of strategies, aligned with excellence and efficiency. It also acts in a preventive way, analyzing all the alternatives to avoid a certain path or to define the path to be followed at the beginning of the litigation by issuing legal opinion with the most varied hypotheses of interpretation and application of the law to the case at hand, in this sense is the work of CMA:

• Provide ongoing advice during all stages of the process;
• Acting in court proceedings in all instances, and if possible, filing all applicable and necessary appeals;
• Participate in meetings, conciliation and discussion and trial hearings.

Arbitration and Mediation

CMA – Carla Monteiro & Associados, tries to adapt to the demands of its clients, analysing the market which is more and more dynamic, in this sense CMA provides the following services:

• Legal advice in order to advise the client on whether initiating arbitration/mediation is recommended or not as well as the potential risks of doing so.
• Both arbitration and mediation represent alternative forms of conflict resolution by means of agreements and when there are agreements there is also time saving, less wear and tear between the parties and it is in this perspective that CMA provides legal advice in order to ensure agility and help to solve the conflict with much more tranquility.

Homologation and Enforcement of Foreign Judicial and Arbitral Awards in Cape Verde

The homologation of foreign sentences is a procedure that aims at giving validity to a foreign judicial act. It is the recognition, by a judicial or administrative authority, of private acts performed abroad, in order to have legal validity in Cape Verde. Therefore, anyone who may be affected by a judicial decision rendered by a foreign authority must apply for homologation of the decision. CMA handles the homologation process so that the decision rendered by judges abroad can have efficacy in the national territory and thus be executed as if it were a Cape Verdean sentence.