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Joana Alves de Abreu
Consultant
Joana Alves de Abreu joined the firm in 2016. She is a member of the corporate and M&A and capital markets team.
From 2008 to 2013, Joana Alves de Abreu worked as a trainee and associate lawyer in the corporate and the administrative and environment departments of the firm Abreu & Associados – Sociedade de Advogados, SP, RL.
Joana was a legal advisor to the Secretary of State for Energy during the XIX and XX Constitutional Governments and a lawyer at Entidade Reguladora dos Serviços Energéticos.
Most of her work has been developed in the energy law area, taking part in M&A transactions and specialising in energy law regulation, in particular in the electricity and natural gas sectors.
Winner of the Iberian Lawyer “40 under Forty Awards” (Energy) in 2022.
"sound and excellent advice in several fronts."
Legal 500
Education
Law Degree (Faculty of Law, Nova University of Lisbon, 2008). LLM Seminars on International Energy Transactions e International Energy Law (Católica Lisbon School of Law, 2011 and 2012). Master's Degree in Administrative Law – Energy component (Católica Lisbon School of Law, 2012).
Languages
Portuguese, English and Spanish.
Memberships
Portuguese Bar Association (admitted in 2013).
