PORTUGAL Trends and Developments
Trends and Developments Contributed by: Carla Azevedo Gomes, Pedro Malta da Silveira, Miguel Duarte Santos and Camila Cândido SPS-Barrilero
SPS-Barrilero is a leading independent law firm in Portugal, with over 35 years of experience provid- ing specialised legal services in all practice areas. Founded in 1989, SPS Advogados signed a stra- tegic agreement in 2025 with the Spanish law firm Barrilero, creating a benchmark Iberian alliance in the legal sector. Currently, SPS-Barrilero has more than 350 professionals in Portugal and Spain, advis- ing national and international clients. In Portugal, the insurance department of SPS-Barrilero has a team of 20 lawyers developing its activity mainly in three
areas: (i) specialised litigation focused on the critical points for success in handling lawsuits filed by and against insurance companies; (ii) consulting and ad- visory attentive to legal requirements, creating alerts and providing support to clients in the preparation, review and validation of contractual documents; and (iii) regulation and supervision providing interaction with regulatory bodies in the pursuit of appropriate legal and compliance solutions, both from a behav- ioural and prudential perspective.
Authors
Carla Azevedo Gomes has been a partner of SPS-Barrilero since 2006. Her main areas of practice are litigation and insurance law. With more than 20 years of experience in litigation and administrative litigation,
Pedro Malta da Silveira is the founding partner of SPS-Barrilero. With extensive experience in litigation and arbitration, he has played an active role as a lawyer and arbitrator in insurance, banking, financial,
her practice focuses mainly on resolving major accidents and compensation claims as well as regulation and supervision. She is the co-ordinator of several civil litigation and advisory teams at SPS-Barrilero, and is responsible for supervising several high-profile cases and clients who have maintained a relationship with SPS for several years. She has a postgraduate degree in Law of Insurance from the Faculty of Law of the University of Lisbon (2015).
corporate and commercial law since 1991. Throughout his career as a lawyer, he has provided legal advice to banks and insurance companies, acting in national and international litigation and developing specialised advice in both insurance law and banking. He has experience as an in-house lawyer for companies linked to financial activity (1989–1996), assistant professor of Civil Law and Commercial Law at the Faculty of Law of the University of Lisbon, and professor in postgraduate courses.
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