PORTUGAL Trends and Developments
Trends and Developments Contributed by: Armando Martins Ferreira, Inês Sequeira Mendes and Margarida Calixto Kolmer Abreu Advogados
Abreu Advogados is a Big Four independent law firm with over 30 years of experience in the Portuguese market, navigating tomorrow’s sectors and industries. The firm continuously attracts strategic opportunities for its clients in key areas such as finance, corporate and M&A, tax, litigation, and competition. The firm invests in multidisciplinary teams that tackle increas - ingly complex transactions with cost-effective solutions and anticipate clients’ needs with a business-oriented vision. Whether operating
from Portugal or abroad, Abreu is regularly se - lected to advise on international transactions across Portuguese-speaking countries, par - ticularly Angola, Mozambique and Timor-Leste. Abreu Advogados partnered with FBL Advog - ados in 2007 and JLA Advogados in 2010 to meet clients’ interests in the Angolan, Mozam - bican and Portuguese markets while benefitting from an international decision-making process when presenting innovative legal solutions to its clients.
Authors
Armando Martins Ferreira co-heads the practice law area of competition, regulation and the European Union at Abreu Advogados, working primarily on matters related to antitrust and competition, dawn raids, cartel cases and restrictive practices and related litigation, merger control and foreign investment review. He also has extensive experience in related mergers and acquisitions, business structuring, retail and commercial contracting, distribution, licensing and agency networks, advising a wide range of national and multinational undertakings – from start-ups to leading companies – on expanding and protecting their businesses and investments in Portugal, Mozambique and Angola.
Inês Sequeira Mendes is managing partner at Abreu Advogados, with a primary focus on competition law, working closely on investment structuring and the development
of commercial activities of companies. She focuses particularly on notification processes for complex concentration operations and processes related to agreements and restrictive practices and processes related to sectorial regulations, appearing before the Competition Authority, European Commission, sectorial regulating entities and courts. She has also advised on the implementation and improvement of compliance programmes related to competition law, corporate acquisitions, mergers and reorganisation operations and has overseen many of the most significant projects in Portugal and Timor.
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