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Europe 2023
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Managing Partner: Paula Gomes Freire

Number of partners: 56

Number of lawyers: 300+

Team: 470+

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Firm Overview: 

With over 46 years of experience, Vieira de Almeida (VdA) is an international law firm noted for top-quality legal advice and cutting-edge innovation. A profound business know-how coupled with a highly specialised cross-sector legal practice enable the firm to effectively meet the increasingly complex challenges faced by clients. VdA offers robust solutions based on consistent standards of excellence, ethics and professionalism, and is acknowledged as a leading provider of legal services by the most reputed professional organisations, international publications and research institutions. VdA has consistently and consecutively received the industry’s most prestigious awards and nominations.

Through VdA Legal Partners clients have access to a wide sectorial coverage and a team of lawyers across 7 jurisdictions: Portugal, Angola, Cabo Verde, Equatorial Guinea, Mozambique, Sao Tomé and Príncipe and Timor-Leste.

Main Areas of Practice: 

The firm advises an international community of leading national and multinational corporations, financial institutions and governments. VdA is recognised for its client-focused approach, consistently creating ground-breaking solutions to help clients operate at the forefront of their industries. These include:

■ Agribusiness

■ Aviation

■ Banks

■ Defence

■ Distribution

■ Energy

■ Fast Moving Consumer Goods

■ Funds

■ Healthcare

■ Insurance

■ Lifesciences

■ Mining

■ Oil & Gas

■ Ports & Airports

■ Private Equity & Venture Capital

■ Public Administration

■ Public Sector Companies

■ Rail Infrastructures

■ Real Estate

■ Regulatory Entities

■ Road Infrastructures

■ Shipping

■ Social Economy (Foundations, Associations)

■ Space

■ Technology & Innovation

■ Telecoms

■ Tourism

■ Water & Waste

International Work:  

VdA Legal Partners consolidates VdA’s international footprint, bringing together all the lawyers and independent law firms affiliated with VdA for the provision of integrated legal services in Lusophone and Francophone Africa, as well as Timor-Leste.

The firm has a unique blend of exceptional technical expertise, a commercial mindset and in-depth knowledge across industries and local markets. Each mandate is tenaciously handled by multidisciplinary teams comprised of subject-matter specialists and local practitioners. Lawyers at VdA work as a team regardless of their physical location: enthusiastic client service is part of their DNA, wherever the client may be.

The firm’s international reach is further enhanced through a set of working relationships with some of the most reputed law firms in Europe, America – particularly Brazil – Asia and Africa.

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Portugal - Head office
Portugal

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VdA rankings

Europe Guide 2023
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Porto
General Business Law
1 Department
Department
General Business Law
2
General Business Law
2
Band 2
General Business Law: Corporate
1 Ranked Lawyer
Lawyers
Isabel Gião de Andrade
2
Isabel Gião de Andrade
2
Band 2
General Business Law: Employment
2 Ranked Lawyers
Lawyers
Manuel Cavaleiro Brandão
S
Manuel Cavaleiro Brandão
S
Senior Statespeople
Benedita Fernandes Gonçalves
U
Benedita Fernandes Gonçalves
U
Up and Coming
General Business Law: Public Law
1 Ranked Lawyer
Lawyers
3
João Soares Franco
3
Band 3
General Business Law: Tax
2 Ranked Lawyers
Lawyers
1
Miguel C Reis
1
Band 1
João Velez de Lima
3
João Velez de Lima
3
Band 3
Portugal
Banking & Finance
1 Department
5 Ranked Lawyers
Department
Banking & Finance
1
Banking & Finance
1
Band 1
Lawyers
Paula Gomes Freire
E
Paula Gomes Freire
E
Eminent Practitioners
Pedro Cassiano Santos
Pedro Cassiano Santos
Star Individuals
Francisco Sá Carneiro
2
Francisco Sá Carneiro
2
Band 2
Benedita Aires
4
Benedita Aires
4
Band 4
Tiago Correia Moreira
4
Tiago Correia Moreira
4
Band 4
Capital Markets
1 Department
5 Ranked Lawyers
Department
Capital Markets
1
Capital Markets
1
Band 1
Lawyers
Paula Gomes Freire
E
Paula Gomes Freire
E
Eminent Practitioners
Pedro Cassiano Santos
1
Pedro Cassiano Santos
1
Band 1
Hugo Moredo Santos
2
Hugo Moredo Santos
2
Band 2
José Pedro Fazenda Martins
2
José Pedro Fazenda Martins
2
Band 2
Orlando Vogler Guiné
4
Orlando Vogler Guiné
4
Band 4
Competition/European Law
1 Department
2 Ranked Lawyers
Department
Competition/European Law
1
Competition/European Law
1
Band 1
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