PORTUGAL Trends and Developments
Trends and Developments Contributed by: Alexandra Nascimento Correia, Guilherme Santos Silva, Gonçalo Malheiro and Laura Cecília Lourenço Abreu Advogados
Abreu Advogados is a big four independent law firm with over 30 years of experience in the Portuguese market. It partnered with FBL Ad- vogados in 2007 and JLA Advogados in 2010 to meet client interests in the Angolan, Mozam- bican and Portuguese markets while benefiting from an international decision-making process when presenting innovative legal solutions to its clients. The firm continuously attracts strategic opportunities for its clients in key areas such as
finance, corporate and M&A, tax, litigation and competition. It invests in multidisciplinary teams that tackle increasingly complex transactions with cost-effective solutions and anticipates clients’ needs with a business-oriented vision. In both Portugal and internationally it is chosen to provide legal advice in international transac- tions across Portuguese-speaking countries, particularly Angola, Mozambique and Timor- Leste.
Authors
Alexandra Nascimento Correia has been a partner at Abreu Advogados since 2016. She is co-head of the litigation and arbitration practice, with more than 20 years of experience.
Guilherme Santos Silva has been a partner at Abreu
Advogados since 2004. He is co-head of the litigation and arbitration practice and the firm’s Angolan desk. He is listed as an arbitrator at the Concordia – Centre of Conciliation, Mediation of Conflicts and Arbitration and is an active member of the Litigation and Arbitration Committees of the IBA. He has been working in highly complex commercial litigations and has been acting for clients on civil, commercial and transportation litigation matters, as well as on domestic and international arbitrations, for more than 28 years, making him one of the most well-known lawyers in this field.
She has been appointed as an arbitrator for civil and commercial disputes in domestic arbitration, and she is one of the few Portuguese lawyers to have experience in international mediation under the rules of the International Chamber of Commerce. She is a member of the board of the Commercial Arbitration Centre of the Portuguese Chamber of Commerce and Industry and a member of the board of the Circle of Litigation Lawyers.
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