Sérvulo & Associados offers a comprehensive dispute resolution practice, covering commercial litigation, domestic and international arbitration and administrative litigation, with expertise spanning sectors such as finance, automotive, pharmaceuticals, healthcare, transport and infrastructure. The ‘experienced’ team is co-led by the ’excellent’ João Saúde, who has notable experience in international arbitration and sports law litigation, alongside António Teles and Mafalda Ferreira Santos, who handle a wide range of commercial disputes. Miguel Santos Almeida and Alexandra Valpaços regularly represent clients before state and arbitral courts in matters involving contractual and non-contractual liability.
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Litigation and Arbitration, Restructuring and Insolvency
Position
Partner in the Litigation department, focusing her practice in the areas of Restructuring and Insolvency and Arbitration.
Career
At SÉRVULO since 2018, Mafalda Ferreira Santos is a partner in the firm’s Litigation department, focusing her practice in the areas of Restructuring and Insolvency and Arbitration. She holds a Master’s in Legal Sciences from the Faculty of Law of the University of Lisbon. Mafalda Ferreira Santos started her professional career in 1997 at the law firm «F. Castelo Branco, P. Rebelo de Sousa & Associados - Sociedade de Advogados» (Portuguese Legal Group, AEIE) and in «P. Rebelo de Sousa & Associados, Simmons & Simmons.». From 2003 to 2013 Mafalda Ferreira Santos was an associate at the law firm «Gonçalves Pereira, Castelo Branco & Associados», currently «Cuatrecasas, Gonçalves Pereira & Associados, Sociedade de Advogados, SP, RL», where she became partner in 2013. Mafalda Ferreira Santos has lectured the Interdisciplinary Juridical Practice discipline from 2004 to 2017, at the Faculty of Law of the Nova University of Lisbon. She joined the Bar Association in 1997.
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Portuguese, English
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‘Experienced team with good communication skills.’
‘João Saúde is an excellent lawyer; good communicator; very supportive and knowledgeable’
Key clients
- SPORTING CLUBE DE PORTUGAL – FUTEBOL, SAD
- Red Tree Investments, LLC
Work highlights
Advised Contrarian Capital, LLC on the representation of six of its owned entities in connection with sovereign debt claims against the Venezuelan Republic, related to unpaid bond obligations.