Carmo Sousa Machado

Employment

Carmo Sousa Machado works primarily on matters related to civil and employment law in Portugal, including litigation. She was responsible for the creation of the employment law practice area at Abreu Advogados, a practice area to which she has dedicated over twenty years of her career. She has extensive practical experience on matters relating to acquisitions, sales, mergers and restructuring from the human resources/labour perspective, whether upstream, when conducting due diligences, or downstream, when implementing operations. She is also experienced in the transfer of establishments and related matters, in hiring and terminating namely of senior employees, in conducting disciplinary proceedings, and in pre-litigation and litigation procedures in labour disputes.

Her practice covers a variety of business sectors, but centers on the health, transport, construction, services, retail and communications sectors, where she has been involved in some of the largest multinational group restructuring deals taking place in Portugal.

Chair of Multilaw and Vice-President of the Portuguese Bar Association.