Alexandra Dias Henriques

About Alexandra

Alexandra is a senior counsel in the EU and Competition Law practice and has 20 years' experience.

She focuses on European Union law, European and Portuguese competition law, and competition litigation.

She advises on cases involving restrictive practices, including cartel leniency and settlement, merger control, vertical agreements and compliance programmes. She represents clients before the Portuguese Competition Authority, the European Commission, and the Portuguese and European courts.

Alexandra is secretary-general of CAPDC (Circle of Portuguese Competition Law Lawyers).

Alexandra holds a master's degree in European Union law, specialising in competition law, from King's College London. She also completed postgraduate courses in European Union law at King's College London, in law enforcement, compliance and criminal law at the University of Lisbon, and in industrial property at the University of Lisbon/APDI.

She also attended university extension courses organised by the University of Lisbon, Universidade Nova de Lisboa and JurisNova, in collaboration with the Portuguese Competition Authority, the European University Institute in Florence and the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE).

Before joining PLMJ, she was a lawyer at the law firms Gómez-Acebo & Pombo and Marques Mendes & Associados.