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Miguel Teixeira de Abreu
Work Department
Corporate and M&A Law, Tax Law, Finance Law.
Position
Honorary Partner.
Career
Miguel Teixeira de Abreu is the founding Partner of Abreu Advogados. He works primarily on the corporate, financial and taxation aspects of business structuring and corporate restructuring operations.
He focuses on matters relating to mergers, demergers and acquisitions, asset contributions, and exchange of shares, particularly in connection with international tax and project finance. He has been the lead in tax litigation cases involving double taxation, breach of EU laws, and transfer pricing. He assists family-owned companies on generational planning, specifically, tax matters and asset structuring to ensure the transmission of assets. Additionally, he participates in investment operations in Angola and Mozambique, advising on tax issues and assisting Abreu International Legal Solutions’ lawyers in their interchange with lawyers based in Angola and Mozambique.
Finally, with an Active role in some of the most relevant restructuring operations in multinational groups taking place in Portugal, Miguel has extensive experience in advising on transactions in the healthcare, telecommunications, automobile, ports and financial sectors.
Languages
Portuguese, English and Spanish.
Memberships
Portuguese Bar Association.
International Bar Association.
International Fiscal Association.
Portuguese Fiscal Association.
The American College of trust and Estate Counsel.
International Tax Review.
Education
Law Degree, University of Lisbon Law School (1987); Master of Laws by the London School of Economics and Political Science, University of London (LL.M. – International Business Law); Master Studies at the University of Lisbon Law School (Corporate and Tax Studies); Registered with the Portuguese Bar Association.
Lawyer Rankings
Portugal > Tax
(Hall of Fame)Abreu Advogados
is noted for its ability to combine ‘extreme technical knowledge’ with a ‘commercial approach‘.The team is regularly instructed to advise on the tax aspects of significant transactions, and notably excels in green taxation – including renewable energy taxation – digital assets and blockchain technology taxation. Tax law has been central to the firm’s core since its inception, with founding partner Miguel Teixeira de Abreu 
specialising in international tax affairs. Alexandra Courela advises both national and international clients on a range of tax matters and co-leads the team with Nuno Da Cunha Barnabé. Barnabé is a key contact for high-net-worth (HNW) individuals, family offices, private banking and asset manager businesses in Portugal and Portuguese-speaking nations. Mariana Gouveia de Oliveira is a seasoned tax practitioner whose experience covers income tax, transfer pricing, indirect tax and cross-border mandates, the latter of which is a core area of activity for Maria Inês Assis. With extensive experience in both transactional and contentious tax matters, Maria Dulce Soares leads the Porto-based tax practice, where Susana Duarte is a name to note for corporate income tax and international matters.
Lawyer Rankings
Top Tier Firm Rankings
Firm Rankings
- Banking and finance
- Commercial, corporate and M&A
- Dispute resolution
- Employment
- Energy and natural resources
- Fraud and white-collar crime
- Porto: Leading commercial firms
- Projects and project finance
- Real estate and construction
- Transport
- Data privacy and data protection
- EU and competition
- Insolvency and restructuring
- Public law
- TMT
- Capital markets