Mr Jose Amorim Magalhaes > Morais Leitão, Galvão Teles, Soares da Silva & Associados > Lisbon, Portugal > Lawyer Profile
Morais Leitão, Galvão Teles, Soares da Silva & Associados Offices
RUA CASTILHO, 165
1070-050 LISBOA
Portugal
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Mr Jose Amorim Magalhaes
Position
Of Counsel
Career
His practice has always been focused on labour law. He has vast experience in all its areas.
He actively intervenes in several kinds of transactions and proceedings, particularly those related to the termination of agreements, disciplinary proceedings, individual and collective dismissals.
He is also active in labor litigation, acting as legal counsel for several clients.
Acting on behalf of domestic and foreign clients, he has actively participated in several legal due diligence and restructuring processes, advising on the acquisition and sale of companies and business areas.
From 2001 to 2004 José Amorim was at Saraiva Lima e Associados – Sociedade de Advogados – and from 2004 to 2019 at Uría Menéndez – Proença de Carvalho, where he coordinated Porto’s Labor Team for a decade.
Memberships
Portuguese Bar Association. Apodit – Associação Portuguesa de Direito do Trabalho.
Education
Law Degree (Católica Porto School of Law, 1999). Postgraduate Studies in Community Labour Law (Católica Porto School of Law, 2001). Postgraduate Studies in Labour Law (Coimbra Faculty of Law, 2006).
Lawyer Rankings
Portugal > Employment
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.
Lawyer Rankings
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Banking and finance
- Capital markets
- Commercial, corporate and M&A
- Data privacy and data protection
- Dispute resolution
- Employment
- Energy and natural resources
- EU and competition
- Fraud and white-collar crime
- Insolvency and restructuring
- Intellectual property
- Planning law
- Porto: Leading commercial firms
- Public law
- Real estate and construction
- Tax
- Transport