PORTUGAL Law and Practice Contributed by: Bárbara Marinho e Pinto, Ana Reis Mota, Lua Mota Santos and Jéssica Dinis Bento, 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 consists of sev - eral lawyers, each one with a love for the profession and track records of success. It is a recognised and well-known law firm experienced in criminal law. The lawyers that work in this team have amassed a great amount of experience, covering most types
of proceedings that are commonly found in criminal law. They vigorously represent clients, namely in the context of so-called economic and financial crimes (white-collar crimes), in crimes against honour and against property, as well as in the context of regu - latory offences litigation, whose scope, importance and intensity continues to grow.
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Bárbara Marinho e Pinto has been a partner at Rogério Alves & Associados (RA) since 2020. She is a key member of the fraud and white- collar crime department at the firm, and she specialises in criminal law.
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
She began her career with Xavier Andreu Rami, in Barcelona in 2004 as a trainee. Before joining RA, she acted for PMBGR and for ABBC & Associados in the litigation and arbitration practice areas. She has been working with Rogério Alves since 2008, acquiring experience and knowledge of criminal litigation. Bárbara Marinho e Pinto currently acts in the litigation and arbitration area, with particular focus on criminal litigation and employment law.
administrative offenses 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.
Ana Reis Mota has been a partner at Rogério Alves & Associados (RA) since April 2024. She is a key member of the fraud and white-collar crime department at the firm, with specialisation in criminal law and
Jéssica Dinis Bento has been an associate at Rogério Alves & Associados (RA) since 2026, having joined the firm in 2024 as a trainee lawyer. She is a member of the firm’s criminal, regulatory and compliance practice and has acquired experience in dealing with criminal litigation.
administrative offences. She began her career at RA, first as a trainee (2016) and then as associate lawyer (2018). She is involved in some of the largest and more complex criminal proceedings investigated and resolved in Portugal in recent years.
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