PORTUGAL Law and Practice Contributed by: Bárbara Marinho e Pinto, João Diogo Melo, Lua Mota Santos and Amanda Bueno Almeida, Rogério Alves & Associados
Rogério Alves & Associados is a full-service law firm, with national and international reach, established in 2013 in Lisbon, Portugal. The firm comprises eight dedicated lawyers, each with a strong commitment to the profession and a proven track record of success. RA is a recognised and well-regarded firm with deep experience in criminal law. The lawyers in the crimi - nal team have handled a broad spectrum of matters, covering most types of proceedings commonly found
in criminal practice. They vigorously represent clients in the context of so-called economic and financial crimes (white-collar crimes), in particular in cases in - volving economic and financial crimes, as well as in those involving regulatory offences litigation, an area whose scope, relevance and intensity continue to grow. The relationship between the lawyer and the court is both historical and traditional. RA honours and upholds that tradition.
Authors
Bárbara Marinho e Pinto has been a partner at Rogério Alves & Associados (RA) since 2020. She founded the firm and co-ordinates its criminal law department. Bárbara specialises in fraud and white-collar
Lua Mota Santos has been an associate at Rogério Alves & Associados (RA) since 2024 and is also a guest lecturer at the Faculty of Law, University of Lisbon. She specialises in criminal law and
crime. She began her career in 2004 as a trainee with Xavier Andreu Rami, in Barcelona. Before joining RA, she worked at PMBGR and ABBC & Associados (now DLA Piper) in the areas of litigation and arbitration. She has been working with Rogério Alves since 2008, gaining extensive experience in both criminal and civil litigation. Bárbara now acts in litigation and arbitration matters, with a particular focus on criminal litigation and high-profile cases.
administrative sanctions within the Criminal Litigation department. Her legal career began in 2021 as a trainee at Uría Menendez – Proença de Carvalho, where she became an associate in the litigation department in 2023, gaining extensive experience in civil, commercial and criminal litigation. Lua has been involved in several significant and complex criminal cases investigated in Portugal in recent years.
João Diogo Melo has been an associate at Rogério Alves & Associados (RA) since 2022 and is a member of the firm’s criminal, regulatory and compliance practice. He has been with the firm since 2020,
Amanda Bueno Almeida has been an associate at Rogério Alves & Associados (RA) since 2022, having joined the firm in 2020 as a trainee lawyer. She is a valuable member of the firm’s criminal, regulatory and
during which time he has developed significant experience and expertise, particularly in the field of economic and financial crime. His practice focuses on advising and representing clients in complex criminal proceedings, as well as on compliance and preventive frameworks, with a particular emphasis on white-collar crime and corporate liability.
compliance practice, where she has developed a solid practice in civil and criminal litigation. Her work focuses particularly on economic and financial crime, including tax and white-collar offences. She also has strong experience in administrative offence proceedings, particularly in matters related to economic regulation and compliance.
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