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Joana Duro

Europe 2026

Morais Leitão, Galvão Teles, Soares da Silva & Associados, SP, RL.

Ranked in 1 practice area

General Business Law: Public Law

Porto

5 years ranked

About

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Europe

Practice Areas

Administrative and public procurement.

Career

Joana Duro works in several areas of administrative law, including regulatory and administrative contracts and public procurement, acting as legal counsel for several public and private entities, administrative litigation and arbitration processes.

She regularly provides legal advice to both awarding entities and tenderers on the several phases of procurement procedures, as well as on other areas of administrative law, mainly in the areas of urban planning and expropriations, both in procedural matters as well as in administrative litigation.

Joana regularly participates as speaker in public law seminars and conferences and as lecturer in postgraduate courses on public procurement law and is a member of the Public Procurement Group of CEDIPRE (Center for Studies in Public Law and Regulation, Coimbra Faculty of Law). She was also an invited assistant professor at the School of Law of the University of Minho.

Professional Memberships

Portuguese Bar Association.

Personal

Law Degree (Faculty of Law, University of Porto, 2011). Master's Degree in Administrative Law (School of Law of the University of Minho, 2014).

Chambers Review

Provided by Chambers

Chambers European Guide

General Business Law: Public Law - Porto

Associates to watch

Individual Editorial

Joana Duro consistently attracts praise for her contributions to the firm's public law team. She advises on contentious and non-contentious matters relating to telecoms concessions.

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Strengths

Provided by Chambers

Joana Duro has an exceptional ability to work and immediately grasp what is at stake and how to approach issues, which greatly facilitates our interaction. She is very quick and insightful and highly qualified.
General Business Law: Public LawChambers European Guide