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Counsel, Head of EU and Competition practice at CS’Associados (2019-2023)
Of Counsel, Head of EU and Competition practice at DLA Piper ABBC (2016-2019)
Mergers’ Director at the Portuguese Competition Authority (2013-2015)
Deputy to the Secretary of State to the Prime Minister [in ESAME - Team in charge of the coordination and implementation of the economic and financial assistance program of the IMF/EC/ECB ("troika") to Portugal] (2011-2013)
Associate; Senior Associate; Senior Lawyer in Morais Leitão, Galvão Telles, Soares da Silva & Associados (2001-2011)
Expert consultant in EU Competition Law in INDECOPI (March 2005-May 2005)
Trainee in the Merger Task Force at Directorate-General for Competition, European Commission (October 2000-March 2001)
Trainee Lawyer; Associate at PLMJ (1998-2000)
Trainee lawyer at Marques Mendes Associados (1997-1998)
Member and Secretary-General of APDE - Associação Portuguesa de Direito Europeu (the Portuguese Association of European Law) (2009/2012 and since October 2018)
Secretary-General of CAPDC - Association of Portuguese Competition Lawyers ("Círculo dos Advogados Portugueses de Direito da Concorrência") (April 2017/July 2022 and member of since 2010)
Editor of C&R - Revista de Concorrência e Regulação (Competition and Regulation Journal) concerning the area of Mergers (2014-present)
Regular speaker at conferences and postgraduations in EU and Competition Law
Member of juri for the yearly oral exams of the short-listed candidates to the Portuguese Judiciary Studies’ Centre (“Centro de Estudos Judiciários”) concerning EU Law and Economic Law, following designation by the Portuguese Bar Association (2018-present)
Regularly contributes for Portuguese and international publication on EU and Competition Law. Most recent contributions:
The Portuguese mechanism for screening of foreign investment: Amendments envisaged for 2023? The context and reasons why” - Part II, C&R (July/December 2022)
First co-author of “Competition Law and Tourism – A Portuguese perspective”, ESTHE – Estoril Higher Institute for Tourism and Hotel Studies · January 18, 2022;
The Portuguese mechanism for screening of foreign investment: from the background of its creation to the envisaged amendment in 2022” - Part I - C&R (October/December 2021)
"Amendments to the Competition framework during Troika times in Portugal: A soft tool for enhancing enforcement a decade ahead of ECN+"- included in the book "International cooperation of competition authorities in Europe: From bilateral agreements to transgovernmental networks", 2nd edition revised and updated, edited by Dr hab. prof. ILS PAS Mateusz Błachucki, Institute of Law Studies, Polish Academy of Sciences, ORCID: 0000-0001-5805-048X, Warsaw: Publishing House of ILS PAS (August 10, 2021)
"Search and seizure in sanctioning proceedings: Contextualization of its evolution from the perspective of the Competition Act - included in the book "Novos estudos sobre law enforcement, compliance e direito penal" (New studies on law enforcement, compliance and penal law), scientific coordination by Maria Fernanda Palma, Augusto Silva Dias, Paulo de Sousa Mendes, ISBN 978-972-40-8451-0 Almedina Edition, (January 3, 2020)
Merger Control - Chapter on Portugal - included in "Global Merger Control Handbook" – 2019, Volume II, pages 951 and following.
Counsel, Head of EU and Competition practice at CS’Associados (2019-2023)
Of Counsel, Head of EU and Competition practice at DLA Piper ABBC (2016-2019)
Mergers’ Director at the Portuguese Competition Authority (2013-2015)
Deputy to the Secretary of State to the Prime Minister [in ESAME - Team in charge of the coordination and implementation of the economic and financial assistance program of the IMF/EC/ECB ("troika") to Portugal] (2011-2013)
Associate; Senior Associate; Senior Lawyer in Morais Leitão, Galvão Telles, Soares da Silva & Associados (2001-2011)
Expert consultant in EU Competition Law in INDECOPI (March 2005-May 2005)
Trainee in the Merger Task Force at Directorate-General for Competition, European Commission (October 2000-March 2001)
Trainee Lawyer; Associate at PLMJ (1998-2000)
Trainee lawyer at Marques Mendes Associados (1997-1998)
Member and Secretary-General of APDE - Associação Portuguesa de Direito Europeu (the Portuguese Association of European Law) (2009/2012 and since October 2018)
Secretary-General of CAPDC - Association of Portuguese Competition Lawyers ("Círculo dos Advogados Portugueses de Direito da Concorrência") (April 2017/July 2022 and member of since 2010)
Editor of C&R - Revista de Concorrência e Regulação (Competition and Regulation Journal) concerning the area of Mergers (2014-present)
Regular speaker at conferences and postgraduations in EU and Competition Law
Member of juri for the yearly oral exams of the short-listed candidates to the Portuguese Judiciary Studies’ Centre (“Centro de Estudos Judiciários”) concerning EU Law and Economic Law, following designation by the Portuguese Bar Association (2018-present)
Regularly contributes for Portuguese and international publication on EU and Competition Law. Most recent contributions:
The Portuguese mechanism for screening of foreign investment: Amendments envisaged for 2023? The context and reasons why” - Part II, C&R (July/December 2022)
First co-author of “Competition Law and Tourism – A Portuguese perspective”, ESTHE – Estoril Higher Institute for Tourism and Hotel Studies · January 18, 2022;
The Portuguese mechanism for screening of foreign investment: from the background of its creation to the envisaged amendment in 2022” - Part I - C&R (October/December 2021)
"Amendments to the Competition framework during Troika times in Portugal: A soft tool for enhancing enforcement a decade ahead of ECN+"- included in the book "International cooperation of competition authorities in Europe: From bilateral agreements to transgovernmental networks", 2nd edition revised and updated, edited by Dr hab. prof. ILS PAS Mateusz Błachucki, Institute of Law Studies, Polish Academy of Sciences, ORCID: 0000-0001-5805-048X, Warsaw: Publishing House of ILS PAS (August 10, 2021)
"Search and seizure in sanctioning proceedings: Contextualization of its evolution from the perspective of the Competition Act - included in the book "Novos estudos sobre law enforcement, compliance e direito penal" (New studies on law enforcement, compliance and penal law), scientific coordination by Maria Fernanda Palma, Augusto Silva Dias, Paulo de Sousa Mendes, ISBN 978-972-40-8451-0 Almedina Edition, (January 3, 2020)
Merger Control - Chapter on Portugal - included in "Global Merger Control Handbook" – 2019, Volume II, pages 951 and following.
Academic Curriculum
Specialist Lawyer in EU and Competition by the Portuguese Bar Association (2007)
Admitted to the Portuguese Bar (2001)
LL.M. in Advanced European Studies, College of Europe, Brugge, Belgium (1997)
Law degree, Faculty of Law, Lisbon University (1996)
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