GLX LTM and Associates was founded in Guimaraes (Portugal), on May the 2nd 1989 by Gama Lobo Xavier and Luis Teixeira e Melo and it was then named, Gama Lobo Xavier and Luis Teixeira e Melo - Law Firm. Its genesis embodies a long and deep professional and personal relationship between the two founding members, beginning in the second half of the Seventies, which extended and deepened to direct descendents and gradually, but firmly, opened to new partners and associates. Currently the Law Firm has as partners: Luis Teixeira e Melo, Gonçalo Gama Lobo, Luis Filipe Teixeira e Melo, Francisco Gama Lobo Xavier, Rui Teixeira e Melo, Hugo Costa e Silva, Maria Emília Meira and Margarida Machado. As associates: José Pinto de Almeida, Mónica Moreira Soares and Belmiro Pinto dos Santos. As consultants: Gama Lobo Xavier and João Augusto Martins. The Firm has four administrative clerks and eleven trainee lawyers.