A worked corridor
Israel-Portugal is a repeat route for the firm — the recurring questions, sequencing traps and coordination points are already mapped.
Portugal desk
Israel and Portugal, held in one legal file.
The Aun & Co. Portugal desk: relocation, residency, property and business moves between Israel and Portugal, coordinated with local counsel under one strategy.
Portugal has become a standing destination for Israeli families and businesses — relocation, second bases, property, European residency routes and, for many, citizenship paths tied to ancestry. Each of those moves is two legal systems meeting: what Portugal grants must fit what Israel still claims, and the structures serving one side must not wound the other. The Portugal desk holds both ends: the Israeli exposure and departure work done by the firm directly, the Portuguese layer executed by vetted local counsel, and the coherence owned in one file.
The work spans
- Israel-side planning for relocation and second-base moves to Portugal
- Coordination of Portuguese residency and citizenship processes
- Property acquisitions supported across both legal systems
- Business establishment with dispute and enforcement clauses that travel
- One coordinating counsel across the Israeli and Portuguese layers
- Your family is weighing a move to Portugal and every adviser covers one country only.
- You are buying Portuguese property while your legal and tax life remains Israeli.
- A Portuguese residency or ancestry-based citizenship route is in motion and its Israeli implications are unexamined.
- A business is opening a Portuguese base and the contracts must hold up in both systems.
The firm applies its dual-jurisdiction method to a corridor it works repeatedly: the Israeli side — exposure audit, departure sequencing, centre-of-life documentation — handled directly; the Portuguese side — status processes, conveyancing formalities, local filings — instructed to established local counsel against a written brief. Every structure is tested from both directions: what a Portuguese acquisition does to Israeli residence facts, what Israeli obligations survive into the Portuguese chapter.
04 · What you get
Both ends accountable
Israeli work done directly, Portuguese work by vetted local counsel under written instruction — and one firm answerable for the whole.
Structures tested both ways
Each acquisition and entity checked against Israeli exposure and Portuguese requirements before commitment, not after contradiction.
A typical engagement: a family relocating to Portugal with a business remaining in Israel. The firm runs the pre-move audit and departure sequencing at home, instructs Portuguese counsel on the residency process and the property purchase, and keeps the centre-of-life record coherent across both systems from day one.
Described in abbreviated, anonymised form to preserve client confidentiality.
What legal work does a move from Israel to Portugal involve?
Two coordinated tracks: the Israeli side — closing or restructuring obligations, sequencing departure, documenting the shift of centre of life — and the Portuguese side — the residency route, property and establishment formalities. The risk lives in the seam between them; the desk exists to own that seam.
Do I need both an Israeli and a Portuguese lawyer?
Effectively yes — each system requires its own qualified counsel. The question is coordination: the desk model gives you one strategic counsel instructing the Portuguese layer against a single plan, instead of two advisers optimising different halves of one life.
How does the Portugal desk engagement start?
With a mapping session: your intended move, the assets and obligations on each side, and the status route in play. The firm returns a two-track plan — Israeli actions, Portuguese instructions — with sequence and timeline, typically within two weeks.