PORTUGAL Law and Practice Contributed by: Bárbara Marinho e Pinto, Amanda Bueno Almeida and Lua Mota Santos, Rogério Alves & Associados Sociedade de Advogados, SP, RL
Rogério Alves & Associados Sociedade de Advoga- dos, SP, RL is a full-service law firm with national and international reach. It was established in Lisbon, Por - tugal, in 2013. With more than 30 legal profession - als, the firm keeps growing in line with its success - ful track record. Rogério Alves & Associados (RA) is a recognised, experienced and well-known player in the field of criminal law. All lawyers on this team have amassed a great deal of experience, covering a
wide range of proceedings commonly found in crimi - nal law. The firm represents clients in the sphere of so-called economic and financial crimes (white-collar crimes), crimes against honour and property, and litigation related to regulatory offences – the scope, importance and intensity of which continue to grow. RA’s practice operates under the belief that the con - nection between the lawyer and the court is historical and traditional.
Authors
Bárbara Marinho e Pinto has been a partner at Rogério Alves & Associados (RA) since 2020. She founded the firm and co-ordinates the criminal law department. Bárbara specialises in fraud and white-collar
Lua Mota Santos has been an associate at Rogério Alves &
Associados since 2024 and is also a guest lecturer at the Faculty of Law, University of Lisbon. She specialises in criminal law within the fraud and white-collar crime department. Her legal career began in 2021 as a trainee at Uría Menendez, 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.
crime. She began her career as a trainee with Xavier Andreu Rami in Barcelona in 2004. Before joining RA, she acted for PMBGR and ABBC & Associados (currently DLA Piper) in the practice areas of litigation and arbitration. She has been working with Rogério Alves since 2008, acquiring experience and knowledge in criminal and civil litigation. Bárbara is now acting in the area of litigation and arbitration, with a particular focus on criminal litigation and high-profile legal cases.
Amanda Bueno Almeida has been an associate at Rogério Alves & Associados since 2022 and is a valuable member of the firm’s criminal law department. She has been working at the firm since 2020,
starting as a trainee lawyer and acquiring experience and knowledge in civil and criminal litigation. After becoming an associate, she became an expert in criminal law, particularly on economic crime litigation and administrative sanctions.
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