Ranked in 2 Practice Areas
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Employment

Portugal

17 Years Ranked

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Band 1

About

Provided by Rui Valente

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Practice Areas

Nineteen years of experience in employment issues: individual/collective negotiation, disciplinary proceedings, collective dismissals, lay off procedures, labour due diligences and labour litigation.

Career

Law degree (1995) and two post-graduate degrees in labour and employment law at the Universidade Católica Portuguesa (2001-02 and 2004-05). He has been a teacher in post-graduate courses in several Universities.

Professional Memberships

Portuguese Bar Association, which has considered him a “Labour Law Especialist” (2007).

Personal

Author (among other) of the following published articles: "Direito do Trabalho e prestações de desemprego. A Segurança Social como outorgante fantasma na transação laboral" (2011, Prontuário de Direito do Trabalho n.º 86); "O Direito da Segurança Social como face oculta do Direito do Trabalho" (2011, Direito do Trabalho + Crise = Crise do Direito do Trabalho – Atas do Congresso de Direito do Trabalho na Universidade Católica Portuguesa), "Proteção do segredo, cláusula penal e desvinculação do pacto de não concorrência: entre a causa perdida, o combate quixotesco e o direito ao mal menor" (2017, Peter Lang, Los actuales câmbios sociales y laborales: nuevos retos para el mundo del trabajo; Vol.4) and “An employment Law for the elderly” (2018, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, The Balance between Worker Protection and Employer Powers).

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General Business Law: Employment - Porto

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Rui Valente holds a prominent role as head of Garrigues's Portuguese employment law team. He advises on collective redundancies and defends companies in class actions brought in relation to unpaid wages. He also advises on the employment law considerations arising from corporate restructurings.


Employment - Portugal

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Band 1
Individual Editorial
Rui Valente has a broad practice that includes termination of contracts, restructurings and collective dismissals. He is also proficient in handling employment-related disputes and the employment law aspects of transactions.

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