Fernando Costal Carinhas
Legal Director – Head of Real Estate
PwC Portugal
Fernando Costal Carinhas is a Legal Director at PwC Portugal and head of the Real Estate practice area. He develops his activity with focus on real estate transactions and development projects.
He has specialized in providing legal advice on real estate law matters to institutional real estate investors and developers, private clients and family offices, both domestic and, above all, international, including religious legal entities.
He has extensive experience in providing legal advice on the various models and stages of real estate investment.
He has advised on and coordinated the negotiation of various real estate acquisition and sale transactions (single assets and real estate portfolios), urban rehabilitation projects, turnkey contracts, divestment projects, mortgage loan portfolio transactions (“NPLs”) and OREO, the transfer of relevant sets of real estate assets, sale and leaseback transactions, construction and marketing of logistics parks, office buildings, shopping centers and retail parks, wind and solar farms, office parks, etc.
At a glance
Areas of focus
- Real Estate
- Legal assistance in all phases of real estate investment
Professional background
Before joining PwC Legal, between 2014 and 2023, he was Managing Associate at PLMJ and between 2023 and 2025 he was Senior Associate at Cuatrecasas.
Academic background
- Law Degree, Lisbon Law School of the Portuguese Catholic University (2008)
- Masters in Real Estate, Oporto Law School of the Portuguese Catholic University (2016)
- Member of the Portuguese Bar Association
