Rita Aleixo Gregório > PLMJ > Lisbon, Portugal > Lawyer Profile
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Av. Fontes Pereira de Melo, 43
1050-119 Lisboa
Portugal
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Rita Aleixo Gregório
Work Department
EU and Competition Law
Position
Partner
Career
Rita is a partner in the EU and Competition Law practice. With over 15 years’ professional experience, she has focused on advising public and private clients on competition law matters. These matters include state aid, cartel cases, abuse of dominant position or vertical agreements, merger control and compliance programmes.
With particular expertise in the financial, aviation, distribution, energy and waste management sectors, Rita represents clients before the Competition Authority, the European Commission and Portuguese and European courts.
Rita has an LL.M. in competition law from King’s College London and completed postgraduate courses in economics for competition law, also from King’s College London, and in competition law and regulation and consumer law from the Faculty of Law of the University of Lisbon.
Before joining PLMJ, she was a lawyer at VdA and worked in the restrictive practices department of the Portuguese Competition Authority.
Languages
Portuguese and English
Memberships
Competition Committee of the International Chamber of Commerce in Portugal
CAPDC – Circle of Portuguese Competition Lawyers
Education
Law degree from the University of Lisbon, 2001
Admitted to the Portuguese Bar Association, 2003
Postgraduate in economics and competition law from King’s College London, 2011
LL.M. in competition law from King’s College London, 2007
Postgraduate in competition law and regulation from the Faculty of Law of the University of Lisbon, 2005.
Postgraduate course in consumer law at the Faculty of Law of the University of Lisbon
Lawyer Rankings
Portugal > EU and competition
PLMJ fields a ‘great’ competition law team, praised by clients for its ‘quality of partners’ and ‘attention to detail’. The practice handles a wide range of prominent competition and antitrust matters, such as merger control, State Aid, and investigations, in Portugal across various industries, from banking to infrastructure. Counting a mix of major Portuguese and international companies among its key client roster, the practice is adeptly positioned to assist on both contentious and non-contentious matters. Steering the practice is Ricardo Oliveira, who is noted for his focus on cartel cases, competition litigation, merger control and abuse of dominance. Rita Aleixo Gregório advises on the full gamut of antitrust matters, specifically across the aviation, banking, energy and health sectors. Martim Valente, described by one client as a ‘fantastic technical lawyer’, focuses on all aspects of anti-cartel and abuse of dominance cases, merger control and the implementation of compliance programmes. These are also key areas of activity for Alexandra Dias Henriques.
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