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Manuela Martins Amorim Costa
Managing Associate

Manuela Martins Amorim Costa

Joined PLMJ in 2022.
Managing associate in the Dispute Resolution practice.

About Manuela

Manuela is a managing associate in the Dispute Resolution practice and has 15 years' experience.

She specialises in complex domestic and international arbitration cases, particularly relating to construction, energy, commercial and corporate disputes. In these cases, she has acted in various jurisdictions and under different arbitral rules.

Manuela holds an LL.M. in international business regulation, litigation and arbitration from New York University. She also completed postgraduate courses in public companies and capital markets at Católica Lisbon School of Law, and in corporate law, focusing on public tenders and contracts, at FGV – Fundação Getulio Vargas (Brazil).

Manuela is admitted to practice as a lawyer in Portugal and Brazil.

Before joining PLMJ, she was a lawyer at the law firms CMS Rui Pena & Arnaut and Chaffetz Lindsey LLP in New York.

Contacts

Office: Lisbon
(+351) 213 197 300*
manuela.costa@plmj.pt

*National landlines call

Languages:
English, French

Academic Background

  • Law degree form Pontifícia Universidade Católica of Rio de Janeiro, 2011
  • Admitted to the Portuguese Bar Association, 2017
  • Postgraduate course in public companies and capital markets at Católica Lisbon School of Law, 2017
  • LL.M. in international business regulation, litigation and arbitration from the New York University Law School, 2015
  • Postgraduate course in corporate law at Fundação Getúlio Vargas, 2014

Professional Background

  • Senior associate at CMS Portugal, 2017-2022
  • Foreign associate at Chaffetz Lindsey LLP, New York (USA), 2015-2016
  • Lawyer at the Brazilian construction company Queiroz Galvão, 2012-2014

Member of

  • ICC - YAF
  • ICDR - Young & International
  • YIAG - Young International Arbitration Group
  • Young ICCA
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