PLMJ

Dispute Resolution

Partner

Petra is a partner in the Dispute Resolution practice and has more than 12 years' experience. She specialises in commercial and corporate litigation, banking and finance, and the private enforcement of competition law.

She regularly advises Portuguese and international clients in various sectors, including in class and collective actions.

Petra holds a law degree from Católica Lisbon School of Law and an LL.M. in international transactions from Centro de Estudios Garrigues (Madrid), in partnership with Fordham University (New York). She also holds a postgraduate qualification in arbitration from NOVA School of Law. She attended the 2nd Postgraduate Course in Law Enforcement, Compliance and Criminal Law and the XVI Postgraduate Course in Competition and Regulation, both at the Faculty of Law of the University of Lisbon.

Before joining PLMJ, she worked as a lawyer at Garrigues and spent a year as a guest lecturer at Católica Lisbon School of Business & Economics, teaching economic and business law.

Portuguese, English, French and German

Law degree from Universidade Católica Portuguesa, 2010

Admitted to the Portuguese Bar Association, 2014

Masters in Civil and Criminal Law (curricular part) from the Faculty of Law of Universidade Católica Portuguesa, 2011

Guest lecturer at the Faculty of Economic and Business Sciences, Católica Lisbon School of Business & Economics, in the subjects of Economic and Business Law (2011–2012)

Postgraduate in Arbitration from the Faculty of Law of Universidade Nova de Lisboa, 2015

LLM in International Transactions from Centro de Estudios Garrigues (Madrid) - in partnership with Fordham University (New York) and Universidad Nebrija (Madrid), 2017