Borges da Ponte, Linhares Dias & Associados was founded in August 2005. Based in the centre of the largest city on the Azores archipelago – Ponta Delgada – the firm’s practice extends throughout the entire region of the Azores as well as outside, particularly with the North American Emigrant Community with which it is in close contact, in addition to its other various contacts with law firms practising on the Portuguese mainland and in other European Community countries.

The firm’s main practice areas are:

• Civil law,
• Administrative law, 
• Business law, 
• Public law, 
• Criminal law, 
• Labour law, 
• Family and Inheritance law.

The positive result of the firm’s activity for around three years has confirmed the belief of the partners and the associates that practising law in a structured law firm is becoming increasingly necessary, given the legislative breadth and development that goes hand-in-hand with the country’s economic circumstances.