SRS Legal advises public bodies and private entities on project development, infrastructure financing, and public law matters. The projects department has extensive experience across the energy, transport, and infrastructure sectors, particularly in PPPs. José Luís Moreira da Silva, who focuses on projects in the energy, infrastructure and transport sectors in Portugal and other Lusophone countries, oversees the practice with finance specialist Alexandra Valente. João Filipe Graça focuses on procurement, concessions, and regulatory issues in the energy and telecoms sectors, while Mariana Silva Marques is active in PPPs, administrative concessions and public procurement.
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Accolades
Client satisfaction: Lawyer & team quality
Client satisfaction: Sector knowledge
Testimonials
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- ‘José Luis Moreira da Silva provides excellent, commercially savvy advice. He is incredibly responsive and helpful, and you feel that you are in very capable hands.’
- ‘Competence, rigour, and seriousness.’
Key clients
- APL - Port Authority of Lisbon
- AVIAPARTNER
- APSS - Setubal and Sesimbra Port Authority
- TRANSTEJO
- European Commission
- Cellnex
- APRAM – Administração dos Portos da Região Autónoma da Madeira
- Repsol Portugal
- Export Finance Australia (EFA) Commonwealth of Australia - represented by the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade ABN
- ENAPOR - Empresa Nacional de Administração dos Portos, SA
- APS - Port Authority of Sines and the Algarve, S.A.
- Portos dos Açores, S.A.
Work highlights
Advising APL on the transfer of all Silopor's assets to Silotagus, a public company wholly owned and created by the Port Authority of Lisbon (APL), to enter into a concession agreement with APL, and to prepare for its future privatisation.
Advising Porto dos Açores on port operations and uses of the port public domain, namely the forms provided for by law, advantages and disadvantages.
Advised APRAM on the negotiations with the Municipality of Funchal in order to share the maintenance of the public domain between the two entities and the application of a special tariff to all passengers disembarking on the cruise ships at the port of Funchal.
Lawyers
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Practice head
José Luís Moreira da Silva; Alexandra Valente
Other key lawyers
Carlos Costa Pina; João Filipe Graça; Mariana Silva Marques