Pedro Pais de Vasconcelos
Managing Partner
Emeritus Full Professor - Faculty of Law - University of Lisbon
PhD in Law
Master’s degree in law
Lawyer (limited liability) since 1973
Best Lawyers Award 2020
Corporate Law
Insolvency and Reorganization Law
Author of several law books concerning the law on contracts, civil, commercial and company law.
Editor of "Revista de Direito Comercial" (Commercial Law Review).
Co-Editor of "DSR - Direito das Sociedades em Revista" (Companies Law Review).
Member of the Presidential Council of AIDA - International Insurance Law Association/ (Association Internationale de Droit des Assurances).
Former President of the Portuguese section of AIDA.
Member of the Presidential Council of CILA, Iberian American Comitte of AIDA.
Member of the Roberto Schlessinger Association.
Member of "The Common Core of European Private Law", on "Commercial Trust and Administration of Property" and "Personality Rights in European Tort Law".
Member of the Project Group "Restatement of European Insurance Law".
Spoken languages : Portuguese, English, German and French.
Pedro Paes de Vasconcelos (Pedro Leitão Pais de Vasconcelos)
Managing Partner
PhD in Law
Master’s degree in law
Lawyer (limited liability) since 1997
Best Lawyers 2020
Corporate law
Insurance Law
Former Professor - Faculty of Law - University of Lisbon (2020)
Vice-Editor of "Revista de Direito Comercial" (Commercial Law Review).
Member of CIDP - Private Law Research Centre of the Faculty of Law (University of Lisbon).
Member of APODIT - Portuguese Association of Labor Law.
Former Vice-president of the Erasmus and International Relations Department of the Faculty of Law (University of Lisbon).
Former member of the Scientific Council of the Faculty of Law.
Former member of the Pedagogical Council of the Faculty of Law.
Former member of the Senate of the University of Lisbon.
Former member of CIDP (Private Law Research Centre of the Faculty of Law).
Spoken languages: Portuguese, English.
Raquel Brízida Castro
Associate Lawyer
Professor - Faculty of Law - University of Lisbon
PhD in Law
Master’s degree in law
Lawyer (limited liability)
Best Lawyers Award 2020
Telecommunications Law
Privacy and Data Security Law
Information and Technology Law
Former member of the Regulatory Council of the ERC (Regulatory Entity for Social Communication) - 2011-2016.
Former journalist and Policy Editor at SIC and SIC Notícias (Portuguese network channels).
Main researcher at CIDP (Centre for Research in Public Law) and ICJP (Institute for Legal and Political Sciences) (CIDP) - research fields: Constitutional Law, Constitutional Law and Cyberspace, Constitutional Law of Communication, Constitutional Justice and Fundamental Rights, Researcher in charge of the research project “Constitutional Law of Cyberspace and Cybersecurity”.
Main researcher in the Research Projects: “Public Governance 4.0.: The New Economic Era and the Redefinition of Public Governance Paradigms” and “Privacy and Data Protection”.
Responsible researcher for the Fulbright Specialists Project FSP-P005351, entitled: “The Cyberspace Law and its implications on the Cybersecurity, Privacy and Data Protection”.
Associate Researcher at the Centre for Legal Research in Cyberspace (CIJIC), Faculty of Law, University of Lisbon.
Researcher / Collaborator at ICPOL - Research Centre of the Higher Institute of Police Sciences and Homeland Security.
Member of the Scientific Committee of the Scientific Journal “Cyberlay By CIJIC”, of the Centre for Legal Research in Cyberspace, Faculty of Law, University of Lisbon.
Member of the Peer Review Process of the Review of the Faculty of Law of the University of Lisbon and of the Law and Technology Magazine.Member of several Master and Doctorate juries at FDUL, both as President, Examiner and member.
Member of the Scientific Council of the Faculty of Law of Lisbon.
Former Deputy Director of the Faculty of Law of the University of Lisbon (2018-2020).
Ana Lúcia Costa
Associate Lawyer
Post-graduation degree in Banking Law
Law degree
Lawyer (limited liability) since 2005
Spoken languages: Portuguese and English.