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Marta Costa

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Work Department

Private Clients & Family Businesses

Technology, Media & Telecommunications

Position

Professional Partner

Career

Marta Costa is a Professional Partner and has been at Abreu Advogados since 2019, co-heading the industry sector dedicated to Private Clients and Family Businesses, coordinating the Italian Desk and working in the Technology, Media & Telecommunications sector.

She has vast experience in consulting family offices and individual clients on successions law and family law (in the areas of planning, negotiation, organisation and transfer of assets between generations and litigation), wealth planning, private international law and nationality matters.

Marta also has very wide-ranging experience in matters related with electronic communications, including electronic commerce and distance selling in general, personal data, protection of intellectual property rights, information technologies, advertising and consumer law.

She is considered one of the most renowned specialists in her fields, and has won several awards and national and international distinctions.

Marta has a PhD in Civil Law from the University of Coimbra Faculty of Law and the University of Bologna Faculty of Law. Her academic career path includes being chair of a number of civil law subjects, in particular family and successions law. She is a guest speaker on her areas of interest at national and international conferences.

Languages

Portuguese, Italian, English.

Memberships

Portuguese Bar Association
International Bar Association
STEP- Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners
Centro de Derecho Comparado

Law Centre of Family

Education

Degree in Law from the University of Coimbra Faculty of Law (2002)

Masters (taught part) in Civil Law from the University of Coimbra Faculty of Law (2004)

Postgraduate course in Family Law from the University of Bologna Faculty of Law (2005)

Postgraduate course in Telecommunications Law from the University of Lisbon Faculty of Law (2008)

PhD in Civil Law from the University of Coimbra Faculty of Law and the University of Bologna Faculty of Law (2009)

Postgraduate course in Consumer Law from the University of Lisbon Faculty of Law (2009)

Advanced certificate in Cross-Border Estates course – STEP – The Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners (2018)