PLMJ - Key Persons
Andreia is a partner in the Public Law practice. With 20 years' experience, she specialises in town and country planning and environmental law, in particular environmental impact assessment procedures and the use of water resources, as well as administrative litigation. Her clients include Portuguese and international developers, real estate investment funds, private equity funds and banks.
Andreia has extensive experience in advising on the management and development of pools of diversified real estate assets, in particular for housing, tourism, industry, logistics and infrastructure. She advises on projects from the moment of the decision to acquire land/shareholdings, through the process of verifying / defining the assumptions that underpin the business plans, the processes of structuring and implementing development strategies (construction, regeneration, rehabilitation, etc.) and the planning dynamics.
Andreia has completed postgraduate courses in administrative and tax justice, and in spatial planning and environmental law, at the Faculty of Law of the University of Coimbra, and in administrative procedure at the Faculty of Law of the University of Lisbon. She is frequently a speaker and moderator at various conferences on subjects in her area of specialisation.
Andreia was a trainee and began her career as a lawyer at PLMJ. In 2020, she returned to the firm after working as an external adviser on urban planning and land use matters for Hudson Advisors, L.P. and the Novo Banco Real Estate Group.
Practice Areas:
Planning
Bruno is managing partner and partner in the Banking and Finance and Capital Markets practices, and he has over 15 years' experience in giving legal advice in these areas.
He specialises in advising on complex transactions in Portugal and internationally, combining transactional and regulatory advice with advice on financial issues, including project finance operations, leveraged finance and asset based finance.
Bruno has a law degree from the Faculty of Law of the University of Coimbra and a master's in banking law from the Faculty of Law of the University of Lisbon. He is the author of numerous books and articles on banking, corporate and securities law.
Practice Areas:
Banking and finance, and compliance regulation
Bárbara is a partner in the Corporate M&A practice and has more than 25 years' experience in corporate M&A, corporate law and private equity.
She is known for her work on the most important corporate deals taking place in Portugal in recent years, including major merger and acquisition and privatisation operations.
Bárbara has taken three postgraduate courses: in commercial law at the Faculty of Law of Universidade Católica Portuguesa, in media law at the Faculty of Law of the University of Lisbon and in corporate finance law at the same university.
Practice Areas:
Business and Human Rights
Carla is a partner in the Dispute Resolution practice. She has more than 10 years' experience focusing on civil and commercial litigation, and she also advises on business restructuring, insolvency and arbitration. She has recently gained experience acting for clients in product liability and class actions.
Besides her experience in complex disputes, often of a multidisciplinary nature and involving different legal systems, Carla also has experience in advising clients at the pre-litigation stage.
More recently, she has worked closely with clients in the transport sector and energy sectors, and with investment funds and finance providers.
The author of numerous publications, Carla has a master's in legal sciences from the Faculty of Law of the University of Lisbon. She has also completed postgraduate courses in arbitration at the Faculty of Law of Universidade Nova de Lisboa and in corporate governance at the Faculty of Law of the University of Lisbon.
Practice Areas:
Banking, finance and securities litigation
Carmen is a partner in the Real Estate and Tourism practice and she heads PLMJ's Faro office.
With almost 20 years' experience, she acts for a range of clients from the tourism and real estate sectors, in particular, owners of tourism developments and hotels, in various legal matters relating to real estate, tourism, corporate, contracts and trademarks. Her advice includes assisting buyers and sellers in investment or divestment operations involving real estate assets.
Carmen also has a solid background in litigation and arbitration, in disputes involving corporate matters, unfair competition and contractual compliance. Her experience includes contracts relating to golf rights and construction contracts.
She is currently one of the directors on the board of the British-Portuguese Chamber of Commerce.
Carmen has a law degree from the Faculty of Law of the University of Lisbon, an LLM in international trade and business law from the Faculty of Law of Universidade Católica Portuguesa and she completed an extension course in arbitration at the Faculty of Law of Universidade Nova de Lisboa.
Practice Areas:
Real estate transactions
Diogo is the partner who heads the Public Law practice. He has more than 20 years' experience, particularly in the areas of administrative law, public contracts, public procurement and construction. His experience also includes litigation in the state courts and arbitration, both as a lawyer and as an arbitrator.
Diogo has worked with clients in several countries, primarily Cape Verde, Angola, Mozambique and São Tomé and Príncipe, on a range of infrastructure projects. He has experience in the construction, transport, real estate, water and sanitation and energy sectors.
In Portugal, Diogo has worked on some of the largest public tenders, as well as construction, concession, privatisation and public-private partnership projects. He regularly advises concessionaires, promoters and financiers.
He was a university lecturer for around 10 years and he has a master's in legal-economic sciences. He still works regularly with higher education institutions. Diogo is also the author of works on the areas to which he is dedicated.
He is on list of arbitrators of several arbitration centres and Chair of the Management Committee of the Concordia - Centre for Dispute Conciliation and Mediation.
Practice Areas:
Administrative and constitutional litigation
Diogo is a partner and co-head of the Corporate M&A practice. He has more than 30 years' experience and is one of the most distinguished corporate and M&A lawyers in Portugal.
Diogo has vast experience in mergers and acquisitions, private equity and projects, in sectors including transport, infrastructure, aviation, energy, distribution and tourism. He has also advised on privatisations and represents clients in the areas of road concessions, renewable energy and telecoms.
With a law degree from the Faculty of Law of Universidade Católica, Diogo is admitted to practice as a lawyer in Portugal and in Brazil.
Practice Areas:
Business reorganisations
"Diogo Perestrelo is noted as "a reference in corporate work and a good, reliable lawyer."
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