Categoria: Assistente Convidado
Areas of interest/research:
Company Law
Securities Law
Commercial Law
Technology Law
Civil law
Civil Procedure Law
European Union Private Law
Academic Degrees:
Law Degree, Faculty of Law, University of Lisbon, 2013
Master’s Degree (LL.M.) in European Legal Studies, College of Europe, 2014
PhD candidate in Civil Law, University of Lisbon Law School
Member of research centres:
CIDP – Private Law Research Centre
Other Academic Activities:
Co-Principal Investigator in the CIDP Research Project “Crafting Legal Responses to Blockchain-Based Decentralised Business Arrangements and Organisations” (Lisbon DAO Observatory).
Member of the Review Committee of the Journal of Company Law
Other Professional Activities:
Senior Technician at the Bank of Portugal
Category: Guest Assistant
Areas of interest/research:
Company Law
Securities Law
Commercial Law
Civil law
Civil Procedure Law
European Union Private Law
Academic Degrees:
Law Degree, Faculty of Law, University of Lisbon, 2013
Master’s Degree (LL.M.) in European Legal Studies, College of Europe, 2014
PhD candidate in Civil Law, University of Lisbon Law School
Member of research centres:
CIDP – Private Law Research Centre
Other Professional Activities:
Senior Technician at the Bank of Portugal

Most relevant publications:
“Critical analysis of the transposition of the Shareholders’ Rights Directive II: in particular, bringing the company closer to shareholders and transactions with related parties” (co-authored with José Ferreira Gomes), in Revista de Direito das Sociedades XI, 3/4 (2021).
“The need for a volitional-sequential element in the informal company contract and the undifferentiated application of the civil company regime”, in Revista de Direito das Sociedades XI, 3/4 (2021)
“Typical evidentiary contracts in civil proceedings: limits and effects on the court”, in Revista Ius Dictum, Ano I, Nº 2 (2020)
“The administration of credit institutions subject to resolution measures”, in Administração e Governação de Sociedades (ed. Paulo Câmara), Almedina, Coimbra, 2020
“Voluntary suspension of dividend distribution in times of pandemic”, in Revista de Direito das Sociedades XI, 2 (2020)
“The leasing of commercial premises on the Internet and the legal relevance of the remote and electronic nature of customers” in O Direito, Year 152 II (2020)
“The Conventional Impeachability Provided for in Article 602: Contribution to the Analysis of its Regime and Limits”, in Civil Code – Fiftieth Anniversary Book (coord. António Menezes Cordeiro), Vol. 1, Almedina, Coimbra (2019)
“Challenges in the Legal Qualification of Decentralised Autonomous Organisations: the Rise of the Crypto-Partnership?”, in Revista de Direito e Tecnologia, Vol.1, no. 1 (2019)
“Cryptocurrencies as a means of financing and the qualification of investment tokens issued in public coin offerings (ICO) as securities”, in Fintech II – New Studies on Financial Technology (coord. António Menezes Cordeiro, Ana Perestrelo de Oliveira and Diogo Pereira Duarte), Almedina, Coimbra (2019)
“Notes on the Draft Transposition of the New Shareholders’ Rights Directive” in Revista de Direito Financeiro e dos Mercados de Capitais, Vol. 1, no. 1 (2019)
“Changes to the Directive on the Rights of Shareholders of Listed Companies: news and prospects for transposition” in Revista de Direito das Sociedades XI, 3 (2017) 557
“The Expectation of the Application of Sanctions as Part of the Concept of Passive Equity for the Purposes of Company Mergers: Commentary on the Judgment of the Court of Justice of the European Union in Case No. C-343, Modelo Continente Hipermercados v. ACT – centro local do Lis”, (co-authored with Maria Ana Barata) in Anuário de Direito Internacional, 2014-2015 (2016)
“Completing the Freedom of Establishment – the Case for a New Company Law Directive on Companies’ Seat Transfers” in Revista de Direito das Sociedades VII, 2 (2016)
“The Nobody’s Company (Keinmanngesellschaft) as a Consequence of the Acquisition of the Totality of Own Securities by the Quota Company: Reflections on the Admissibility of the Figure”, in Revista de Direito das Sociedades IV, 3 (2013)