Category: Associate Professor
Areas of interest / research:
Corporate, Securities and Banking Law
Commercial Contracts (especially M&A)
General Theory of Civil Law and Law of Obligations
Academic Degrees:
Law degree (UCP), 2001
LL.M. in company and securities law (Columbia University), 2004
Doctorate in legal sciences (FDUL), 2014
Member of research centres:
Private Law Research Centre
Member of the editorial boards of scientific journals:
Revista de Direito das Sociedades
Teaching or research activity in other Higher Education Institutions:
Columbia University School of Law (New York): Visiting Scholar and Research Fellow (2007-2008);
Max-Planck-Institut für ausländisches und internationales Privatrecht (Hamburg): Gastwissenschaftler (2012);
Other Professional Activities:
External consultant to the Portuguese Securities Market Commission (CMVM).
Most relevant publications:
Monographs:
Manual of public companies and listed companies, AAFDL, 2018, co-authored with Diogo Costa Gonçalves.
Imputation of knowledge to commercial companies, Almedina, 2017, co-authored with Diogo Costa Gonçalves.
From the administration to the supervision of companies: The duty of vigilance of public limited company bodies, PhD dissertation, Almedina, 2015.
Articles:
“The effectiveness of shareholders’ agreements”, in Estudos em Homenagem ao Dr João Soares da Silva, 2019, currently being published.
Annotation to articles 413 to 413-H and 434 to 446 (Supervision of Public Limited Companies), in António Menezes Cordeiro (coord.), Código das Sociedades Comerciais Anotado, 3rd edition, 2019, currently being published.
“Judicial appointment of company officers”, in Estudos em Homenagem ao Prof. Doutor Germano Marques da Silva, 2019, currently being published.
“Administration of foundations”, in Diogo Costa Gonçalves and Rui Soares Pereira (coord.), Jornadas de Direito das Fundações, currently being published.
“Imputation of knowledge and securities law: case study – financial intermediation and fragmentation of information”, in Paulo Câmara (coord.), O novo Direito dos Valores Mobiliários: II Congresso de valores mobiliários e mercados financeiros, 2019.
Annotation to articles 65 to 69 (General and Supervisory Board), in Deolinda Meira and Maria Elisabete Ramos, Código Cooperativo Anotado, 2019 (article 67 co-authored with Alexandre de Soveral Martins).
“Annotation to the STJ ruling of 5-Jul-2018 (Abrantes Geraldes): the specialised jurisdiction of commercial courts for corporate matters”, Revista de Direito das Sociedades , 10:4 (2018), 837-844.
“Shareholders’ agreements regulating the conduct of S.A. directors, in the light of Brazilian law”, Revista de Direito das Sociedades, 10:3 (2018), 495-526.
“Misconceptions in the EU corporate governance discussion: International terminology and country-specific regulation”, Portuguese Law Review, 2:2 (2018), 161-172.
“The nullity of legal business for contravention of the law (arts. 294 and 280/1 CC): rules of conduct v. rules of validity” , Civil Law Review, 2:2 (2018), 323-349.
” Corporate governance models: the difficult understanding of the German model and the enhanced supervision requirements of Law 148/2015″, Revista de Direito das Sociedades, 10:2 (2018), 397-430.
“Civil liability of employees and directors of credit institutions under Article 304/5 CVM”, Company Law in Review, 19 (2018), 99-130.
“The new IPCG Corporate Governance Code and the replacement of the CMVM Code”, Revista de Direito das Sociedades, 9:4 (2017), 979-991.
“Conflict of interest andinducements of financial intermediaries under MiFID II”, in Paulo Câmara (coord.), O novo Direito dos valores mobiliários: I Congresso de valores mobiliários e mercados financeiros, 2017, 227-250.
“The amendment of the CSC by Decree-Law no. 79/2017, of 30 June: Conversion of shareholder loans into capital”, Revista de Direito das Sociedades, 9:3 (2017), 535-548.
“Decreto-Lei n.º 20/2016 e a desblindagem dos estatutos das instituições de crédito: Um diploma à prova de bala?”, Revista de Direito das Sociedades , 9:2 (2017), 45-78, co-authored with Nádia Reis.
“Response to the public consultation on the draft bill approving the Legal Framework for the Conversion of Credits into Capital”, Revista de Direito das Sociedades, 9:1 (2017), 143-156, co-authored with Catarina Monteiro Pires.
“O sentido dos “deveres de cuidado” (art. 64 CSC): “Once more unto the breach, my friends, once more””, Revista da Ordem dos Advogados, 76:1-4 (2016), 447-496.
“Civil liability for the prospectus: The delimitation of those responsible under article 149/1 CVM”, Revista de Direito das Sociedades, 8:4 (2016), 813-852.
“Reliance: Exclusion of civil liability of members of corporate bodies based on the trust placed in the information received”, Revista de Direito das Sociedades, 8:1 (2016), 49-81.
“The principles of responsibility and global management”, in Paulo Câmara (coord.), A governação dos bancos nos sistemas jurídicos lusófonos, 2016, 89-122.
“A reforma do sistema de supervisão pública da actividade de auditoria em Portugal”, Lex Mercatoria Magazine, 1:1 (2016) 38-41.
“Corporate discretion, the business judgement rule and the conclusion of swapcontracts”, Cadernos do Mercado de Valores Mobiliários: Ensaios de homenagem a Amadeu Ferreira, 2 (2015), 57-98.
“New rules on the governance of credit institutions”, Revista de Direito das Sociedades, 7:1 (2015) 7-49.
Commentary on recommendations II.2.1., II.2.2., II.2.4., IV.1.1. and IV.1.2., in Paulo Câmara (coord.), Código do Governo das Sociedades Anotado, 2012.
“The governance of corporate groups”, in Paulo Câmara (coord.), O governo das organizações: The universal vocation of corporate governance, 2011.
“Conflict of interest between shareholders in deals between a public limited company and its controlling shareholder”, in Paulo Câmara (coord.), Conflict of interest in corporate and financial law: A review from the crisis, 2010.
“Duties of information on business with related parties and recent Decree-Laws158/2009and 185/2009″, Revista de Direito das Sociedades, 1:3 (2009), 587-633.
“The civil liability of auditors”, in Paulo Câmara (coord.), Código das Sociedades Comerciais e Governo das Sociedades, 2008.
“The external supervision of commercial companies and the independence of auditors: European reform, North American influence and transposition into Portuguese law”, Cadernos do Mercado dos Valores Mobiliários, 24 (2006) 180-216, special edition commemorating the CMVM’s 15th anniversary. Recipient of the 2005 CMVM Prize.
“Auditors as gatekeepers: the European reform of auditors’ legal regime and the American influence”, The Columbia Journal of European Law, 11:3 (2005), 665-703.