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Av. Fontes Pereira de Melo, 43
1050-119 Lisboa
Portugal
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Dirce Rente
Work Department
Dispute resolution
Position
Managing Associate
Career
Dirce is a managing associate in the Dispute Resolution practice and she has over 10 years’ experience in the legal profession, focusing on criminal and administrative offence litigation and compliance.
She has acted as both a defence and prosecution lawyer in some of the largest and most complex criminal cases investigated and prosecuted in Portugal, particularly in the areas of corporate and white-collar crime. She has also represented clients in the great majority of Portugal’s highest profile administrative offence cases, including financial, capital markets and competition law matters.
Dirce has also advised companies on how to prevent and corruption, money laundering and terrorist financing, including advice on international sanctions.
With has a master’s in legal-judicial sciences from the Faculty of Law of the University of Lisbon, Dirce also completed a postgraduate course in economic and European criminal law at the Faculty of Law of the University of Coimbra. In addition, she attended an advanced course in international and European judicial cooperation in criminal matters at the Faculty of Law of the University of Lisbon, and she is currently completing a postgraduate course in corporate governance, compliance and public oversight at the same faculty.
Dirce is a member of board of Fórum Penal, an association of criminal lawyers, and of Fair Trials International, where she is a member of the legal experts advisory panel
Languages
Portuguse and English
Memberships
Fórum Penal Association of Criminal Lawyers – Secretary of the Board
Fair Trials International – Legal Experts Advisory Panel
Education
Law degree from the University of Coimbra, 2007
Postgraduate in Economic and European Criminal Law from the University of Coimbra, 2009
Advanced course in International and European Judicial Cooperation in Criminal Matters at the Faculty of Law of the University of Lisbon, 2011
Master’s in legal-judicial sciences (criminal procedure/administrative offence law) from the Faculty of Law of the University of Lisbon, 2015
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Banking and finance
- Capital markets
- Commercial, corporate and M&A
- Dispute resolution
- Employment
- EU and competition
- Insolvency and restructuring
- Planning law
- Projects and project finance