Mariana Paiva

About Mariana

Mariana is a managing associate in the Employment and Labour practice. She has over 10 years’ experience in legal practice and focuses on employment and labour law and social security matters. Mariana regularly advises a number of Portuguese and multinational companies, covering various sectors such as retail, finance, electricity, the media and airlines.

She also has significant experience in employment disputes and is regularly involved in restructuring processes. Mariana provides advice on all matters relating to employment and labour law and social security. She provides day-to-day assistance with employment matters and prepares disciplinary proceedings and cases of dismissal based on just cause, and with collective dismissals and redundancies.

Prior to joining PLMJ, Mariana was a lawyer at the firm of Vasconcelos, Arruda & Associados. She also worked on secondment at the legal department of Moneris – Serviços de Gestão.

Mariana took a postgraduate course in employment and labour law at the Faculty of Law of the University of Lisbon and earned an LL.M. in International Business Law from Católica Global School of Law.