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Francisco da Cunha Matos
Joined PLMJ in 2013.
Senior associate in the Dispute Resolution practice.
About Francisco
Francisco is a senior associate in the Dispute Resolution practice. Over the last 10 years, he has advised on the restructuring of companies in the tourism and hotel sectors. He also advises investment funds and financial institutions and regularly deals with cross-border insolvency proceedings. Francisco has experience in large, complex, multi-jurisdictional corporate and financial disputes.
Francisco is the author of various legal articles and has participated as a speaker and lecturer in seminars and postgraduate courses on civil procedure and restructuring and insolvency.
He holds a degree and a master's degree in legal philosophy from the Faculty of Law of the University of Coimbra and is currently pursuing a doctorate in legal and economic sciences at the same faculty. During his doctoral studies, he was a visiting lecturer at Universidade Autónoma de Madrid, the University of Chicago and the University of Hamburg.
Contacts
Office: Lisbon
(+351) 213 197 300*
francisco.cunhamatos@plmj.pt
Languages:
English, Italian
Academic Background
- Law degree from the University of Coimbra, 2009
- Admitted to the Portuguese Bar Association, 2015
- Master's in Legal-Philosophical Sciences from the Faculty of Law of the University of Coimbra, 2011
- Guest lecturer at the IPT on Introduction to Law, Commercial Law and Social Communication Law, 2011-2013
- Doctorate in Legal-Business Sciences at the Faculty of Law of the University of Coimbra, 2017
Member of
- Student representative at the Directorate-General of the Coimbra Academic Association, 2010
- Member of the Portuguese Association of the Theory of Law, Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophy
- Member of the Lisbon Geographic Society
Francisco da Cunha Matos contributes to the Insolvency and Arbitration Working Group toolkit
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