Filipe Avides Moreira

Joined PLMJ in 2019.

Partner in the Corporate M&A practice.

About Filipe

Filipe is a partner in the Corporate M&A practice in the Porto office and has around 28 years' experience as a lawyer.

His main areas of practice include mergers and acquisitions, private equity and venture capital operations, corporate governance, public-private partnerships, concessions and corporate restructuring and reorganisation.

He has extensive experience in M&A, private equity and venture capital transactions and in the public service concessions sector. He has acted for public authorities, private promoters and construction companies.

Filipe is a member of the International Association of Lawyers (UIA) and a board member of the Portuguese Committee of the UIA. He is also a member of the Board of the Porto Commercial Association and of the Higher Council of the Administrative and Tax Courts. He has also been a lecturer at the Portuguese Bar Association and at the Faculty of Law of Universidade Católica Portuguesa in Porto.

Before joining PLMJ, Filipe worked as a lawyer in Cuatrecasas for 10 years. He has also worked as a lawyer in Macau.

Filipe holds a law degree from the Faculty of Law of the University of Coimbra and a postgraduate degree in European Studies from the same faculty.

Practice Areas:

Commercial contracts

Mergers, acquisitions and joint ventures

PPPs, concessions, infrastructures and projects

Private equity

Sectors:

Infrastructure

Contacts

Office: Porto
(+351) 226 074 700*
filipe.avides.moreira@plmj.pt

*National landlines call

Languages:
English

Curriculum Vitae

Academic Background

Law degree from the University of Coimbra, 2015.
Course in accounting for lawyers and engineers at the Faculty of Law of Universidade Católica Portuguesa in Porto, 1998
Admitted to the Portuguese Bar Association, 1996
Postgraduate course in public law at the Faculty of Law of Universidade Católica Portuguesa in Porto, 2003
Postgraduate course in "The New Public Procurement Code" at the Faculty of Law of Universidade Católica Portuguesa in Porto, 2010
Specialisation course in public procurement and the evaluation of proposals in tender processes at the Faculty of Law of the University of Coimbra (CEDIPRE), 2010
Postgraduate course in corporate law at the Faculty of Law of the University of Coimbra, 2015

Professional Background

Lawyer at the office of Manuela António, Macau,1999-2001
Associate at the law firm Cerqueira Gomes & Associados, 2001-2009
Union lawyer at the Porto Municipal Council, 2003-2004
Trainer at the Portuguese Bar Association, Porto District Centre, on the module "Corporate Law", 2006-2011
Trainer expert valuers course organised by the Centre for Legal Studies, 2009 Edition
Senior associate at the law firm Cuatrecasas, Gonçalves Pereira & Associados, 2009-2013
Trainer at the Faculty of Law of Universidade Católica Portuguesa (Porto) in its public law seminars, 2010-2014
President of the board of directors of Porto Digital Operador Neutro de Comunicações, S.A., 2011-2014
Partner at the law firm Cuatrecasas, Gonçalves Pereira, 2014-2019
Member of the board of directors of the Institute of Commercial Arbitration
Member of the arbitration board of the Commercial Arbitration Centre
Member of the supervisory board of Futebol Clube do Porto
Member of the supervisory board of PortoComercial, Sociedade de Comercialização, Licenciamento e Sponsorização, S.A.
President of the general meeting of the Ach Brito & CA, S.A.
President of the general meeting of Saboaria e Perfumaria Confiança, S.A.
President of the general meeting of Companhia Portuguesa de Computadores e Sistemas de Informação, S.A.
Vice-president of the justice council of the Portuguese Tennis Federation

Member of

The Portuguese editorial board for the legal area of the Brazilian publisher Juruá
The board of the Porto Commercial Association
The UIA - International Association of Lawyers
The board of the Portuguese Committee of the UIA