MILBERG - Key Persons
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- Senior Associate / Lisbon, Portugal
António Escalda joined Milberg Sousa Ferro in 2022. He is lawyer with more than twenty years of experience in litigation.
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- Senior Associate / Lisbon, Portugal
Elsa Seara has a degree in Law from the University of Lisbon Law School and has been a practicing attorney for more than 20 years. Elsa began her career as an in-house corporate lawyer of a big construction company, active on the Portuguese public market. Since 2005, she worked at J.A.P.R Law Firm (now named Pinto Ribeiro Advogados), where she acted as coordinator of the litigation department and closely collaborated with the Corporate, M&A and Venture Capital department. She specializes in litigation and arbitration, with extensive experience in corporate and commercial litigation, with emphasis on insolvency and banking disputes, involving national and international interests.
Elsa joined the Milberg Sousa Ferro team in September 2022
Practice Areas
Commercial and Company Law
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- Partner / Lisbon, Portugal
José Sá Reis has been an academic for 25 years. He teaches at the University of Porto Law School, where he is the Director of the Graduate Law Course. He has published several articles and book chapters on Competition and Antitrust, Company law, Commercial law, and Contracts. In that capacity he has authored many legal opinions on the Portuguese courts.
Although he was a member of the Portuguese Bar Association since 1995, he did not practice for several years. He resumed his activity as a lawyer in 2019, joining Sousa Ferro & Associados as a partner.
Practice Areas
Competition Law
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- Trainee Lawyer / Lisbon, Portugal
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- Researcher
- Researcher / Lisbon, Portugal
Manuel Brandão has been a researcher since 2022, collaborating in the areas of Administrative Law, Competition Law, Consumer Law and Unfair Commercial Practices.
He is currently a Master student in Administrative Law at the University of Lisbon Law School.
Practice Areas
Administrative Law
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- Senior Associate / Lisbon, Portugal
Marta Taborda is a fully qualified lawyer with 20 years of experience in civil law, commercial law, corporate law, and arbitration.
In 2008, she completed the II Postgraduate Course in Corporate Tax Law; while in 2022 she completed the V Postgraduate Course in Digital Services.
Marta's professional career began in Lisbon, at Coelho Ribeiro & Associados, and took her to Macao in 2004 where, for around three years, she acted as a lawyer and advised the board of directors of the Macao Lawyers' Association. Marta returned to Lisbon in 2007, where she joined the law firm Anselmo Vaz, Afra & Associados as a senior lawyer and, later, as a partner.
Between 2018 and 2021, Marta worked as an in-house lawyer at LeasePlan Portugal, a multinational company dedicated to car leasing, where she had the opportunity to provide legal support to the operational, financial, and business areas.
Practice Areas
Commercial and Company Law
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- Managing Partner / Lisbon, Portugal
- Professor at the University of Lisbon Law School
Miguel Sousa Ferro is an academic and a lawyer with over 15 years' experience in EU, Competition and Regulatory law. He is a leading expert in Portugal on collective redress and Antitrust law, with special focus on private enforcement and consumer protection.
As an academic, Miguel is a Professor at the University of Lisbon Law School, where he has lectured since 2008. He has also lectured at the Universities of Toulouse, Bialystok and East Timor, at the College of Europe, and at Universidade Europeia (Portugal). He is Co-Director of the Portuguese Competition & Regulation Journal, and has published 6 monographs and over 100 papers in national and international journals. His most recent books are "The EU Antitrust Damages Directive: Transposition in the Member States" (Oxford University Press) and "Market Definition in EU Competition Law" (Edward Elgar).
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- Trainee Lawyer / Lisbon, Portugal
Ricardo J. Silva is a trainee lawyer (since 2021), specializing in Civil Law and Private Enforcement of Consumer, Competition & Regulatory Law.
As a member of student organizations, Ricardo assumed the functions of Coordinator of the Coimbra's Law Students Association, being in charge of the organization of several activities, including a congress. Also, he was a member of the interim board at University of Coimbra's Debate Society.
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Education