Alexandra Dias Henriques > PLMJ > Lisbon, Portugal > Lawyer Profile
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Av. Fontes Pereira de Melo, 43
1050-119 Lisboa
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Alexandra Dias Henriques
Work Department
EU and Competition Law
Position
Senior Counsel
Career
Alexandra is a senior council in the EU and Competition Law practice and in her nearly 20 years of professional experience, she has focused on European Union law, European and Portuguese competition law, and competition litigation.
She advises on restrictive practices cases, including cartel leniency and settlement, merger control, vertical agreements and compliance programmes. She represents clients before the Portuguese Competition Authority, the European Commission, and the Portuguese and European courts.
She is secretary-general of CAPDC – Círculo dos Advogados Portugueses de Direito da Concorrência.
Alexandra has a Master’s in European Union Law, specialising in competition law, from King’s College, University of London. She also completed a postgraduate courses in European Union law at King’s College, in law enforcement, compliance and criminal law at the University of Lisbon, and in industrial property at the University of Lisbon/APDI. Besides this, she took university extension courses organised by the University of Lisbon, at Universidade Nova de Lisboa and at JurisNova in collaboration with the Portuguese Competition Authority, the European University Institute of Florence and the LSE – London School of Economics and Political Science.
Before joining PLMJ, she was a lawyer at the law firms Gómez-Acebo & Pombo and Marques Mendes & Associados.
Languages
Portuguese, Spanish and English
Education
Law degree from the University of Lisbon, 2002
Admitted to the Portuguese Bar Association, 2004
Advanced Course in European Competition Law at the London School of Economics and Political Science, 2022
Intensive course in Recent Developments in Competition Policy at the European University Institute, 2021
Course on Public Procurement and Competition at the Nova School of Law, 2016
Postgraduate course in Law Enforcement, Compliance and Criminal Law at the Faculty of Law of the University of Lisbon, 2016
Course on the New Legal Regimes of State Aid at the Nova School of Law, 2015
Postgraduate course on industrial property at the Portuguese Intellectual Property Law Association of the University of Lisbon, 2008
Master’s in European Union Law, specialising in competition law from King’s College, University of London, 2009
Postgraduate course in European Union Law at King’s College London, 2008
Lawyer Rankings
Portugal > EU and competition
(Rising stars)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.
Lawyer Rankings
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