Isaque Ramos
Partner

Isaque Ramos

Joined PLMJ in 2019.
Partner in the Tax practice.

About Isaque

Isaque is a partner in the Tax practice. With more than 20 years of professional experience, he focuses on providing tax and legal advice in Portugal and in Africa. He acts for both Portuguese and foreign private clients, and clients from the public sector.

Isaque has played an active role in M&A transactions, structuring of domestic and international investments, tax due diligence, and tax litigation.

He holds a law degree from the University of Lisbon and completed postgraduate courses in commercial law at Universidade Católica Portuguesa and in international taxation of companies at the Faculty of Law of the University of Lisbon. He also attended the master’s in tax law and the professional master’s in financial law, both at the Faculty of Law of the University of Lisbon.

Isaque is an arbitrator at the CAAD - Administrative Arbitration Centre and works with the Institute of Financial and Tax Law of the Faculty of Law of the University of Lisbon.

Before joining PLMJ, Isaque was a Tax and Legal Specialist at McKinsey International, an assistant to the Secretary of State for Tax Affairs of the Ministry of Finance of the 19th Constitutional Government, and a consultant at E&Y and KPMG.

In 2020, Isaque won the prestigious "Forty under 40 – Lawyer of the Year" award, in the category of Tax. This award is given by the magazine Iberian Lawyer.

Contacts

Office: Lisbon
(+351) 213 197 300*
isaque.ramos@plmj.pt

*National landlines call

Languages:
English, Spanish

Academic Background
  • Law degree in legal-economic sciences from the University of Lisbon
  • Admitted to the Portuguese Bar Association, 2005
  • Postgraduate course in business law from the Faculty of Law of Universidade Católica Portuguesa
  • Postgraduate course in international taxation from the Faculty of Law of the University of Lisbon
  • Master’s in financial law (curricular part) from the Faculty of Law of the University of Lisbon
  • Master’s in tax law (curricular part) from the Faculty of Law of the University of Lisbon
Professional Background
  • PLMJ partner since 2019
  • Tax and Legal Specialist - responsible for tax and legal management of projects in Portugal and Africa, McKinsey International (Portugal), 2014-2019
  • Assistant to the Secretary of State for Tax Affairs, Ministry of Finance of the 19th Constitutional Government, 2012-2014
  • Arbitrator at the CAAD - Administrative Arbitration Centre
  • Collaborator at the Institute of Financial and Tax Law of the Faculty of Law of the University of Lisbon, since 2013
  • Consultant at E&Y Portugal, 2009-2012
  • Consultant in the Corporate and International Tax Department at KPMG, SROC, 2008-2009
  • Lawyer at the law firms Azeredo Perdigão and Albuquerque da Fonseca
Other Awards
2024 - Isaque Ramos, Leading | Leaders League - Corporate Tax
2023 - Isaque Ramos, Leading | Leaders League - Corporate Tax
2022 - Isaque Ramos, Leading | Leaders League - Corporate Tax
2021 - Isaque Ramos, Leading | Leaders League - Corporate Tax
2020 - Isaque Ramos, Iberian Lawyer of the Year | Forty under 40
Chambers Europe
2024 - Isaque Ramos, Up and Coming | Tax Law
The Legal 500
2023 - Isaque Ramos, Recommended | Tax
2022 - Isaque Ramos | Tax
2021 - Isaque Ramos | Tax
2021 - Isaque Ramos | Tax
2020 - Isaque Ramos | Tax
International Tax Review
2022 - Isaque Ramos, Highly regarded | Transactional Tax
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