Alexandra Dias Henriques

About Alexandra

Alexandra is a senior counsel in the EU and Competition Law practice and in her nearly 20 years of professional experience, she has focused on European Union law, European and Portuguese competition law, and competition litigation.

She advises on restrictive practices cases, including cartel leniency and settlement, merger control, vertical agreements and compliance programmes. She represents clients before the Portuguese Competition Authority, the European Commission, and the Portuguese and European courts.

She is secretary-general of CAPDC - Círculo dos Advogados Portugueses de Direito da Concorrência.

Alexandra has a Master's in European Union Law, specialising in competition law, from King's College, University of London. She also completed a postgraduate courses in European Union law at King's College, in law enforcement, compliance and criminal law at the University of Lisbon, and in industrial property at the University of Lisbon/APDI. Besides this, she took university extension courses organised by the University of Lisbon, at Universidade Nova de Lisboa and at JurisNova in collaboration with the Portuguese Competition Authority, the European University Institute of Florence and the LSE - London School of Economics and Political Science.

Before joining PLMJ, she was a lawyer at the law firms Gómez-Acebo & Pombo and Marques Mendes & Associados.