Mafalda Teixeira de Abreu > Abreu Advogados > Lisbon, Portugal > Lawyer Profile

Abreu Advogados
Av. Infante D. Henrique, 26
1149-096
Portugal

Work Department

Public and Environment

Competition, Regulatory and EU

Position

Professional Partner

Career

Mafalda Teixeira de Abreu is a Professional Partner and has been at Abreu Advogados since 2001, working primarily in the area of public law, focusing on project finance and public tenders.In terms of project finance, she has participated in the privatisation of several strategic Portuguese companies and has also consulted public-private partnerships in the transport and health sectors.

She advises on public-private partnerships and concession contracts in Portugal and Portuguese-speaking countries, by networking with Abreu International Legal Solutions service in the countries concerned.  She has also assisted clients in matters relating to investment contracts and financial incentives under EU funds.

Mafalda Teixeira de Abreu has experience in assisting and advising clients through the maze of public tender procedures, and constantly changing regulations, from the perspective of both contracting authorities and economic operators.

She also has considerable experience in administrative litigation, with special focus on pre-contractual litigation.

From 2007 to 2008 she worked as a Foreign Lawyer with the London law firm, Clyde & Co.

Languages

Portuguese, English.

Memberships

Portuguese Bar Association

Education

Law degree from the University of Lisbon Faculty of Law (2001)

Post-graduate degree in Legal-Administrative Sciences from the University of Lisbon, Faculty of Law (2007)

LLM from the University College of London Faculty of Law (2007)

Lawyer Rankings

Portugal > Projects and project finance

Standing out for its ‘acute and detailed knowledge of the market‘, Abreu Advogados plays a key role in national and international projects in the energy, natural resources, oil and gas, and transport sectors. Bringing together expertise in public law and financing matters, the firm is equipped to advise on project finance and the establishment of joint ventures and other co-development agreements, as well as related regulatory issues and litigation. Co-head Mafalda Teixeira de Abreu primarily handles public procurement, investment contracts and administrative litigation, while Manuel Santos Vítor has an impressive track record in projects in the renewables, oil and gas, and natural resources sectors. ‘The team was recently reinforced with experienced members‘ who joined from TELLES in November 2o22, including Bruno Azevedo Rodrigues, who ‘reveals, with his advice, decades of accumulated experience in high CapEx sectors‘, namely energy and natural resource sectors, and senior associate João Lupi.