Ms Paula Ponces Camanho > Morais Leitão, Galvão Teles, Soares da Silva & Associados > Lisbon, Portugal > Lawyer Profile

The ‘highly specialised and dedicated’ team at Morais Leitão, Galvão Teles, Soares da Silva & Associados offers support to clients in a wide range of employment-related matters, from collective dismissals, to disciplinary proceedings, business transfers, union negotiations and due diligence. Led from Lisbon by Luís Miguel Monteiro and Pedro Pardal Goulão, the team is recurrently sought after by companies from the energy, banking, pharmaceuticals and transport sectors, among others. Monteiro excels in corporate restructuring, collective dismissals, and social security law, while fellow co-head Pardal Goulão’s expertise spans litigation, due diligence, and corporate restructuring. Helena Tapp Barroso boasts a wealth of experience in collective bargaining agreements and social security disputes. In the Porto office, Paula Ponces Camanho handles contentious and non-contentious mandates, and José Amorim Magalhães is active in both individual and collective dismissals.

Variously praised for its ‘great knowledge’ and ‘in-depth understanding of the legal framework’, Morais Leitão, Galvão Teles, Soares da Silva & Associados houses a sizeable team which is well placed to provide comprehensive legal services, encompassing corporate and M&A, employment, dispute resolution, tax and public law. Managing partner Bernardo Lobo Xavier steers the corporate practice and stands out for his notable contributions to real estate transactions, where he has served as lead counsel to major supermarket and distribution chains, as well as for construction companies. Joaquim Vieira Peres focuses on competition law, both on a domestic and European level, while Luis Gagliardini Graca is active in the area of public concessions. Tax expert António Pedro Braga focuses on national and international corporate taxation of finance, and Nuno Peres Alves is recommended for his public law expertise. Paula Ponces Camanho handles labour litigation and social security matters, Carlos Osório de Castro is well versed in capital markets transactions, and João Anacoreta Correia coordinates the litigation and arbitration team. A key contact for sports clients, Paulo Rendeiro maintains an impressive transactional workload. António Lobo Xavier recently left the firm to become the chairman of EDP’s General and Supervisory Board.