Mr Filipe Avides Moreira > PLMJ > Lisbon, Portugal > Lawyer Profile
PLMJ Offices
Av. Fontes Pereira de Melo, 43
1050-119 Lisboa
Portugal
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Mr Filipe Avides Moreira
Work Department
Corporate M&A
Position
Partner
Career
Filipe is a partner in the Corporate M&A practice and has 20 years’ experience as a lawyer. His main areas of activity include mergers and acquisitions, venture capital operations, public-private partnerships, concessions and corporate restructuring.
He has extensive experience in M&A operations (due diligence, negotiation and closing), and in the services and infrastructure concessions sector. In this sector, he has advised public entities, private promoters and construction companies.
Filipe is a member of the International Association of Lawyers (UIA) and member of the board of the UIA’s Portuguese Committee. He is also a member of the board of the Porto Commercial Association.
He was trainer at the Portuguese Bar Association and at the Faculty of Law of Universidade Católica Portuguesa in Porto. Before joining PLMJ, Filipe was a lawyer at Cuatrecasas for 10 years. He has also worked as a lawyer in Macau.
Filipe has a law degree from the Faculty of Law of the University Coimbra and a postgraduate in European studies from the same faculty.
Languages
Portuguese and English
Memberships
The Portuguese editorial board for the legal area of the Brazilian publisher Juruá
The board of the Porto Commercial Association
The UIA – International Association of Lawyers
The board of the Portuguese Committee of the UIA
Education
Law degree from the University of Coimbra, 2015.
Course in accounting for lawyers and engineers at the Faculty of Law of Universidade Católica Portuguesa in Porto, 1998
Admitted to the Portuguese Bar Association, 1996
Postgraduate course in public law at the Faculty of Law of Universidade Católica Portuguesa in Porto, 2003
Postgraduate course in “The New Public Procurement Code” at the Faculty of Law of Universidade Católica Portuguesa in Porto, 2010
Specialisation course in public procurement and the evaluation of proposals in tender processes at the Faculty of Law of the University of Coimbra (CEDIPRE), 2010
Postgraduate course in corporate law at the Faculty of Law of the University of Coimbra, 2015
Lawyer Rankings
Portugal > Porto: Leading commercial firms
(Leading individuals)Portugal > Commercial, corporate and M&A
Praised for its ‘client-driven approach’, the ‘excellent’ corporate and M&A team at PLMJ handles a steady stream of deals for a diverse portfolio of clients, both domestically and internationally. The team’s expertise is notably pronounced in the healthcare, IT, energy and infrastructure sectors. Diogo Perestrelo
is well versed in the gamut of M&A transactions and privatisations, assisting clients across the energy, aviation, telecoms, infrastructure and transport segments. Leading the team alongside him is Duarte Schmidt Lino, who is noted for his wealth of experience advising on large and high-profile M&A, private equity and venture capital deals. A litany of domestic and international companies turn to Bárbara Godinho Correia for assistance with major merger operations, privatisations, and acquisitions. The ‘outstanding’ Filipe Avides Moreira is lauded for his ‘professional competence.’
Lawyer Rankings
- Commercial, corporate and M&A Portugal
- Leading individuals Portugal > Porto: Leading commercial firms
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