Ms Helena Tapp Barroso > Morais Leitão, Galvão Teles, Soares da Silva & Associados > Lisbon, Portugal > Lawyer Profile

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.

Noted for its ‘great knowledge’ and ‘high quality of advice’, the data privacy and protection team at Morais Leitão, Galvão Teles, Soares da Silva & Associados acts for a diverse range clients in all stages of data protection work, from compliance programmes to investigations and disputes. Adopting a cross-practice approach, the team boasts specialists from a wide range of fields including TMT, labour, criminal, corporate and insurance law. Practice head Tiago Félix da Costa, praised for his ‘professionalism’, seamlessly integrates his data protection practice with a litigation focus, showcasing an impressive track record in handling some of Portugal’s most significant date protection and cybersecurity cases. Other practitioners to note include Helena Tapp Barroso, who is often instructed by clients across the technology, banking, insurance, pharmaceuticals and automotive industries in relation to contractual matters and compliance issues, and sssociate Maria da Assunção da Cunha Reis.