About

As group general counsel, Carlos Martins Ferreira played a pivotal role in Jerónimo Martins’ global corporate structure reorganisation that took place in 2011. During the same year, as a member of the management committee that advises the company CEO, he contributed to the studies and planning that led to the decision of investing in Colombia, where the company now has around 150 stores. Martins Ferreira first joined Jerónimo Martins Distribution as director of legal affairs in 2000, following a successful private practice career in Portuguese law firms José Alves Pereira e Associados and Barrocas, Alves Pereira, Sarmento, Lopes Rocha e Associados. In 2002 he embraced a new challenge and after a demanding training course for magistrates at the Portuguese Centre for Judicial Studies, he became a judge and served at the courts of Lisbon, Cascais, Oeiras and Sintra until 2010. He assumed his current role as group general counsel in January 2011 and he also holds the position of deputy general secretary.