Filipe Avides Moreira
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Partner

Filipe Avides Moreira

Joined PLMJ in 2019.

Partner in the Corporate M&A practice.

About Filipe

Filipe is a partner in the Corporate M&A practice in the Porto office and has around 30 years' experience as a lawyer. 
 
His main areas of practice include mergers and acquisitions, private equity and venture capital operations, corporate governance, public-private partnerships, concessions and corporate restructuring and reorganisation.
He has extensive experience in M&A, private equity and venture capital transactions and in the public service concessions sector. He has acted for public authorities, private promoters and construction companies.
 
Filipe is a member of the International Association of Lawyers (UIA) and a board member of the Portuguese Committee of the UIA. He is also a member of the Board of the Porto Commercial Association and of the Higher Council of the Administrative and Tax Courts. He has also been a lecturer at the Portuguese Bar Association and at the Faculty of Law of Universidade Católica Portuguesa in Porto. 
 
Before joining PLMJ, Filipe worked as a lawyer in Cuatrecasas for 10 years. He has also worked as a lawyer in Macau.
 
Filipe holds a law degree from the Faculty of Law of the University of Coimbra and a postgraduate degree in European Studies from the same faculty.

 

 

 

Practice Areas:
Commercial contracts
Mergers, acquisitions and joint ventures
PPPs, concessions, infrastructures and projects
Private equity
Sectors:
Infrastructure

Contacts

Office: Porto
(+351) 226 074 700*
filipe.avides.moreira@plmj.pt

*National landlines call

Languages:
English

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Academic Background
  • Law degree from the University of Coimbra, 2015.
  • Course in accounting for lawyers and engineers at the Faculty of Law of Universidade Católica Portuguesa in Porto, 1998
  • Admitted to the Portuguese Bar Association, 1996
  • Postgraduate course in public law at the Faculty of Law of Universidade Católica Portuguesa in Porto, 2003
  • Postgraduate course in "The New Public Procurement Code" at the Faculty of Law of Universidade Católica Portuguesa in Porto, 2010
  • Specialisation course in public procurement and the evaluation of proposals in tender processes at the Faculty of Law of the University of Coimbra (CEDIPRE), 2010
  • Postgraduate course in corporate law at the Faculty of Law of the University of Coimbra, 2015
Professional Background
  • Lawyer at the office of Manuela António, Macau,1999-2001
  • Associate at the law firm Cerqueira Gomes & Associados, 2001-2009
  • Union lawyer at the Porto Municipal Council, 2003-2004
  • Trainer at the Portuguese Bar Association, Porto District Centre, on the module "Corporate Law", 2006-2011
  • Trainer expert valuers course organised by the Centre for Legal Studies, 2009 Edition
  • Senior associate at the law firm Cuatrecasas, Gonçalves Pereira & Associados, 2009-2013
  • Trainer at the Faculty of Law of Universidade Católica Portuguesa (Porto) in its public law seminars, 2010-2014
  • President of the board of directors of Porto Digital Operador Neutro de Comunicações, S.A., 2011-2014
  • Partner at the law firm Cuatrecasas, Gonçalves Pereira, 2014-2019
  • Member of the board of directors of the Institute of Commercial Arbitration
  • Member of the arbitration board of the Commercial Arbitration Centre
  • Member of the supervisory board of Futebol Clube do Porto
  • Member of the supervisory board of PortoComercial, Sociedade de Comercialização, Licenciamento e Sponsorização, S.A.
  • President of the general meeting of the Ach Brito & CA, S.A.
  • President of the general meeting of Saboaria e Perfumaria Confiança, S.A.
  • President of the general meeting of Companhia Portuguesa de Computadores e Sistemas de Informação, S.A.
  • Vice-president of the justice council of the Portuguese Tennis Federation
Member of
  • The Portuguese editorial board for the legal area of the Brazilian publisher Juruá
  • The board of the Porto Commercial Association
  • The UIA - International Association of Lawyers
  • The board of the Portuguese Committee of the UIA
Other Awards
2024 - Filipe Avides Moreira, Excellent | Leaders League - Private Equity
2023 - Filipe Avides Moreira, Excellent | Leaders League - Private Equity
2022 - Filipe Avides Moreira, Excellent | Leaders League - Private Equity
2021 - Filipe Avides Moreira, Leading | Leaders League - Corporate / M&A
2021 - Filipe Avides Moreira, Excellent | Leaders League - Private Equity
Chambers Europe
2024 - Filipe Avides Moreira, Corporate - Band 3 | Porto
2023 - Filipe Avides Moreira, Corporate - Band 3 | Porto
2022 - Filipe Avides Moreira, Corporate | Porto
2021 - Filipe Avides Moreira, Public Law - Band 3; Corporate | Porto
2020 - Filipe Avides Moreira, Public law - Band 2 | Porto

"Maintains a strong foothold in the public law space, providing particular expertise in concessions and PPPs."

The Legal 500
2024 - Filipe Avides Moreira, Leading Individuals | Oporto Market
2023 - Filipe Avides Moreira, Recommended | Corporate / M&A
2023 - Filipe Avides Moreira, Leading individuals | Oporto Market
2022 - Filipe Avides Moreira | Corporate / M&A
2022 - Filipe Avides Moreira, Leading individuals | Oporto Market
2021 - Filipe Avides Moreira, Leading Individuals | Oporto Market
2021 - Filipe Avides Moreira | Corporate / M&A
2020 - Filipe Avides Moreira, Leading individual | Oporto Market
2020 - Filipe Avides Moreira | Corporate / M&A
IFLR1000
2023 - Filipe Avides Moreira, Highly regarded | Corporate and M&A
2022 - Filipe Avides Moreira, Highly regarded | Corporate and M&A
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