LAWYERS

Born in Lisbon, graduated in law from the Universidade Católica, Lisbon. Masters and PhD from the Lisbon Faculty of Law.

Professor at the Lisbon Faculty of Law and member of the Centre for International Legal Studies, Salzburg. Awarded scholarships by the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, the Amélia Silva de Mello Foundation and by DAAD (Deutscher Akademischer Austausch Dienst).

Author of numerous publications, including Contracts and Private Autonomy in Family Law, 1986, Application of the Statute of Limitation under Article 489 of the Civil Code to Contractual Liability, 1989, Bankruptcy by Cessation of Payments, 1989, Portuguese Competition Law (on Decree-Law 482/83), 1989, Sale – Introduction, essential effects and forms (in the collective work "Law of Obligations", Volume III, coord. Prof. Menezes Cordeiro), 2nd edition, 1990, Attacking Foreign Assets, Portuguese Chapter, coordinated by Dennis Campbell, Lloyds Press of London, Salzburg, Austria, 1992, The Preferential Right of Shareholders to the Subscription of New Shares, 1993, reprinted 2004, Annotated Bankruptcy and Reorganization Code, with Prof. Teixeira de Sousa, 1993, The Liability of Companies for the Guarantee of Third Party Debts, 1995, Corporate Guarantees for Third Party Debts, 1997, Agency in Civil Law (essay in reconstruction of legal dogma), 2004, The Civil Liability of Regulatory and Supervisory Authorities for Damage caused to Economic Agents and Investors in the course of Inspection or Investigation Activities, co-written with Maria de Lourdes Pereira, 2005, Judicial Control of Business Regulators, co-written with Alexandre de Albuquerque, 2005, Declaration of Insolvency, 2005, The Portuguese State’s golden shares in privatized companies: Limits on Admissibility, co-written with Maria de Lourdes Pereira, 2006, Procedural Liability for Bad Faith Litigation, Abuse of Law and Civil Liability for Procedural Acts, 2006), A further approach to Procedural Liability for Bad Faith Litigation, Abuse of Law and Civil Liability for Procedural Acts (annotation on the decision of the Porto Appeal Court of 13 July 2006), 2006, The limits on the holding of multiple office by members of the general and supervisory board and of the audit board, 2007, Exercise of the voting right for shares held by pension funds representing the share capital of the entity associated with it and holder of part of the capital of the managing company (sep Estudos em Honra do Professor Doutor José de Oliveira Ascensão, vol II), 2008; Law of Obligations, Volume I, Part I, 2008; Land Law and Property Law, 2009; Annotated Commercial Companies Code (collective work organized by Dr. Menezes Cordeiro), 2009; Right to sunshine - right to coverage - conflict of rights, or the right of environment and quality of life, annotation to the Supreme Court of Justice's decision, of October 28 of 2008, The swap agreement, the attribution of voting rights and the regime of own shares, 2010, Annotated Commercial Companies Code, second edition (collective work organized by Dr. Menezes Cordeiro), 2011.

Member of the Portuguese Bar Association since 1988. He works principally in the areas of commercial law, company law, securities law, civil law, civil procedure and banking law. He has assisted in some of the largest privatization operations, mergers and acquisitions, including friendly and hostile take-overs, undertaken in Portugal, as well as in syndicated loan operations. He has also been called on as an expert witness and arbitrator in domestic and international arbitration proceedings, as ICC arbitrator, as well as being included in the list of arbitrators of the Commercial Arbitration Centre of the Lisbon Commercial Association.