Teresa Serra > Sérvulo & Associados > Lisbon, Portugal > Lawyer Profile

Sérvulo & Associados
RUA GARRETT N° 64
1200-204 LISBOA
Portugal
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Work Department

Corporate Crime and Regulatory Compliance and Litigation and Arbitration

Position

Of Counsel in the Corporate Crime and Regulatory Compliance, Litigation and Arbitration departments.

Career

At SÉRVULO as a partner since 1999, Teresa Serra is currently Of Counsel of the firm’s Corporate Crime and Regulatory Compliance and Litigation and Arbitration departments. She obtained a Master’s in Legal Sciences from the Faculty of Law of the University of Lisbon, in 1989. She was university lecturer, from 1982 to 2015, at the Faculty of Law of the University of Lisbon, and at the Faculty of Law of the Nova University of Lisbon, as well as on several graduate courses, teaching subjects relating to sanctions law in general, and, more specifically, economic and financial criminal law, lately, on the third October Course about the Process of Economic Sanctions, in October 2017, and on the second Graduate Course about Law Enforcement, Compliance and Criminal Law in Banking, Financial and Economic Activities, on the first semester of 2018. Member of European and Criminal Economic Law Institute of the Faculty of Law of the University of Coimbra. She has been a Member of the Roxin Alliance, since 2011, an organisation of lawyers and academics dedicated to matters of international economic and financial crimes and compliance. She joined the Bar Association in 1984.

Languages

Portuguese, English, French, German.

Lawyer Rankings

Portugal > Fraud and white-collar crime

(Leading individuals)

Teresa Serra – Sérvulo & Associados

Counting financial institutions, corporates and directors among its key client roster, the team at Sérvulo & Associados, praised for its ‘great legal knowledge’, is well versed in the full scope of corporate crime and regulatory compliance matters. The practice group is distinguished by its expertise in criminal and administrative litigation, successfully handling some of the most high-profile cases in the country. The team is jointly led by a capable trio: José Lobo Moutinho, lauded for his ‘impeccable professional qualities’; Teresa Serra, who is noted for her expertise in civil and commercial litigation, as well as in corporate crime and regulatory compliance; and Cláudia Amorim, who has advised on some of the most high-stakes corporate crime and large regulatory offences cases in Portugal. Consultant Ana Brito Camacho specialises in corporate crime and regulatory compliance issues.