
Rui Vaz Pereira
About
Provided by Rui Vaz Pereira
Practice Areas
Labor and Employment. Sports and Entertainment.
Career
Specialist in labor law and labor litigation. Rui Vaz Pereira has been providing ongoing labor advice, negotiating and preparing salary packages, increments, benefits and incentive plans, disciplinary proceedings; the planning of and advising on company start-up, advising on labor restructure and/or companies’ close down, in particular pre-bankrupt and bankrupt companies, advising on the planning and implementation of collective redundancies and extinction of working positions; advising on the transfer of employees, on the drafting of standard contracts at EU level and international planning, on the negotiation of the hiring and dismissal of managerial staff and on the preparation of employment due diligences in the scope of the acquisition of companies.
He also advises on sports law, in particular on the drafting and negotiation of employment sport contracts and sponsorship contracts. His practice also covers sport litigation, in the scope of federations and arbitration organisations, at national and international level.
Professional Memberships
Member of the Portuguese Bar Association and of the European Employment Lawyers Association (EELA).
Education
Universidade de Coimbra.
Postgraduate studies in Business Law.
2012
Universidade de Lisboa.
Bachelor of Laws.
2006
Languages Spoken
Portuguese, English, Spanish.
Chambers Review
Europe
Rui Vaz Pereira advances in the rankings this year following good client feedback and market recognition. He has experience advising on social security matters, collective bargaining agreements and restructuring. He offers further assistance with employment-related litigation.
Strengths
Provided by Chambers
"Rui Vaz Pereira is very pragmatic and very focused on being available to us."
"He creates an excellent relationship with the client, he generates confidence and technically dominates the themes, which makes him a reference adviser."
"Rui has a high level of technical and commercial knowledge, as well as very good personal relationship skills."
"Rui Vaz Pereira is very pragmatic and very focused on being available to us."
"He creates an excellent relationship with the client, he generates confidence and technically dominates the themes, which makes him a reference adviser."
"Rui has a high level of technical and commercial knowledge, as well as very good personal relationship skills."
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