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Margarida Rodrigues Caldeira
Senior Associate

Margarida Rodrigues Caldeira

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

About Margarida

Margarida is a senior associate in the Dispute Resolution practice and has 5 years' experience advising clients on criminal litigation and compliance matters.

She focuses on criminal litigation and administrative and judicial proceedings, acting for clients across a range of sectors, including telecommunications, banking and financial institutions, energy and natural resources, transport and logistics, and industrial production. Margarida also advises companies on compliance and risk-prevention matters, particularly in relation to corruption prevention, anti-money laundering, counter-terrorist financing and international restrictive measures.

Margarida holds a master's degree in law and legal studies, specialising in criminal law and criminal studies, and completed a postgraduate course in enforcement, compliance and criminal law in banking, financial and economic activities at the Faculty of Law of the University of Lisbon.

She is a member of Fórum Penal, an association of criminal lawyers.

Contacts

Office: Porto
(+351) 226 074 700*
margarida.rodriguescaldeira@plmj.pt

*National landlines call

Languages:
English, Spanish

Academic Background

  • Law degree from the University of Coimbra, 2014
  • Admitted to the Portuguese Bar Association, 2017
  • Master's degree in law - legal and criminal studies from the Faculty of Law of the University of Lisbon, 2019
  • Intensive course on the criminal and administrative data protection rules at the Faculty of Law of the University of Lisbon, 2018
  • Postgraduate course in law enforcement, compliance and criminal law in banking, financial and economic activities, at the Faculty of Law of the University of Lisbon, 2017
  • Course on accounting for lawyers at the Faculty of Law of the University of Lisbon, 2015

Professional Background

  • Associate at Cuatrecasas (2017-2022)

Member of

  • Fórum Penal - an association of criminal lawyers

The Legal 500

2026 - Margarida Rodrigues Caldeira, Recommended | Criminal Law, White Collar Deffence and Compliance
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