Band 4
Provided by Débora Melo Fernandes
Public Law & Regulatory, Public Procurement & Concessions, Projects, Energy, Mobility, Life Sciences, TMT, Administrative & Arbitral Litigation.
She advises public and private clients on high-profile administrative and regulatory matters, including public tenders, performance of public contracts and concessions, licensing procedures and public properties (water, airports, ports and public assets). Her practice spans complex regulatory work across energy, mobility, life sciences and TMT, and she has extensive experience in disputes before administrative and arbitral courts. She serves as an arbitrator at CAAD and previously acted as legal adviser to the Portuguese Minister for Administrative Modernization.
Débora is a partner (since 2024) in Pérez-Llorca’s Public Law & Regulatory practice in Lisbon.
- 2022 Master’s in Administrative Law, Law Faculty of Portuguese Catholic University
- 2008 Postgraduate Course in Public Procurement Law, Law Faculty of Portuguese Catholic University
- 2007 Degree in Law, Law Faculty of University of Lisbon
She works in Portuguese and English.
Portuguese Bar Association.
Administrative Law Association.
Portuguese Arbitration Association.
Provided by Chambers
Débora Melo Fernandes of Pérez-Llorca acts for a range of prominent clients on contentious and non-contentious public law matters, including regulatory mandates and administrative disputes.
Provided by Chambers
Débora Melo Fernandes's knowledge and customer orientation, combined with her innovative strategic vision, are some of the characteristics you can find in her.
Débora Melo Fernandes studies the problems very well and understands the customer's issues, which she works to clarify with very strong technical expertise and rigour.
Débora Melo Fernandes's knowledge and customer orientation, combined with her innovative strategic vision, are some of the characteristics you can find in her.
Débora Melo Fernandes studies the problems very well and understands the customer's issues, which she works to clarify with very strong technical expertise and rigour.