The ‘coherent and dedicated’ team at Abreu Advogados expertly manages both contentious and non-contentious employment issues, offering strategic guidance to clients across a range of sectors, including healthcare, pharmaceuticals, automotive, retail, and TMT. Carmo Sousa Machado continues to play a pivotal role in some of the largest multinational group restructuring deals in Portugal. She leads the team alongside Patrícia Perestrelo, who specialises in matters related to corporate restructuring operations involving labour issues. Sofia Silva e Sousa focuses on regulatory matters, offering strategic human resources advice to both national and multinational corporations.
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'Team with great technical knowledge and diversity. Great availability and collaboration.'
‘Coherent and dedicated team, knowledgeable, and knowing when to add colleagues with different expertise. Clear billing.’
‘Multidisciplinary team, with rapid action and guaranteed competence and added value.'
‘Diogo Orvalho is extremely available and responds promptly, clearly and incisively to our questions and requests. As our point of contact within Abreu, he acts as a pivot within the organisation, taking charge of seeking solutions that fall outside his scope of competence.'
Key clients
- Aernnova
- Ai9.PT
- Allianceprov Portugal SGPS, S.A.
- Alstom Portugal
- Astellas Pharma Group
- Auchan Retail Portugal, S.A.
- Axa S.A.
- Axa Assistance Serviços Portugal, S.A.
- BC Group
- BIOGEN Portugal, Sociedade Farmacêutica Unipessoal, Lda.
Work highlights
- Assisted Transcom with its acquisition of timeframe.
- Assisting SINDICATO NACIONAL DO PESSOAL DE VOO DA AVIAÇÃO CIVIL – SNPVAC in the negotiating of the revision of the Collective Labour Agreements (“CLAs”) signed between SNPVAC and several Portuguese airlines companies.
- Assisting Colt Technology Services with contractual matters, remote onboarding procedures, as well as flexible working options.
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Practice head
Carmo Sousa Machado; Patrícia Perestrelo
Other key lawyers
Diogo Orvalho; Sofia Silva e Sousa; Cláudia Ribeiro da Silva