PLMJ partners PLMJ will once again prominently feature in the Best Lawyers directory. Luís Sáragga Leal and Luís Pais Antunes named Lawyers of the Year in Corporate / M&A and Telecommunications.

Best Lawyers Portugal 2012 distinguished PLMJ Luís Sáragga Leal as best Portuguese lawyer of the year in corporate and M&A and Luís Pais Antunes as best lawyer of the year in telecommunications. In addition to these prominent nominations, the American directory also recognized the experience, dedication and expertise of 36 PLMJ lawyers who were also named as Best Lawyers in 2010 and 2012 in several areas. This year the following PLMJ partners were distinguished Manuel Santos Vitor (corporate and natural resources), Luís Pais Antunes (technology and telecommunications), João Magalhães Ramalho and Nuno da Cunha Barnabas (tax law), Vitor Réfega Fernandes (M&A), Luís Miguel Urbano (construction), Sofia Gomes da Costa (Real Estate) and Vasco Marques Correia (media) and senior associate Daniel Reis (technology). This Best Lawyer list already includes several PLMJ partners in various areas since 2010, they are José Luís da Cruz Vilaça and Ricardo Oliveira (competition), Jorge Brito Pereira (capital markets), Luis Sáragga Leal (corporate and M&A), Tomás Pessanha (coporate), João Medeiros (criminal law), Nuno Líbano Monteiro (litigation and restructuring and insolvency), Manuel Lopes Rocha (intellectual property), Abel Mesquita, Tiago Cortes and Luís Sobral (labour), José Miguel Júdice, Nuno Morais Sarmento, Manuela Tavares Morais, Pedro Faria, Paulo Farinha Alves, João Medeiros, Pedro Metello de Nápoles and Filipa Cotta (litigation). Chancerelle de Machete and Tiago Duarte, (public law), Pedro Sáragga Leal (real estate) and Roger M. Fernandes Ferreira (tax law). The U.S. ranking distinguishes the best lawyers in several jurisdictions, based on peer review and voting.