Categoria: Assistant Professor
Areas of interest / research:
Company Law
Commercial Law
Competition Law
Anglo-Saxon corporate law
Industrial Law and Society
Academic Degrees:
Law Degree (1989);
Master’s Degree in Legal and Business Sciences (1998);
PhD in Legal and Business Sciences (2012);
Degree in History (2020).
Scientific Research and Co-operation
Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, London/United Kingdom;
Bissau Law Faculty, Bissau/Guinea-Bissau;
Cape Verde Higher Institute of Social and Legal Sciences, Praia/Cape Verde;
Instituto Superior Politécnico “Sol Nascente“, Huambo/Angola;
Faculty of Law, University of Katyawala Bwila, Benguela/Angola.

Member of editorial boards of scientific journals:
Co-Director of Revista de Concorrência & Regulação between 2010 and 2012.
Teaching or research activity in other Higher Education Institutions:
Bissau Faculty of Law, Bissau/Guinea-Bissau;
Cape Verde Higher Institute of Social and Legal Sciences, Praia/Cape Verde;
Instituto Superior Politécnico “Sol Nascente“, Huambo/Angola;
Faculty of Law of the University of Katyawala Bwila, Benguela/Angola;
Lusíada University (Lisbon).
Other Professional Activities:
Lawyer and Legal Consultant;
Member of the Board of the Competition Authority from March 2008 to July 2013.
Most Relevant Publications:
Private limited companies and public limited companies: binding – corporate object and plural representation, Coimbra: Almedina, 2000 (Master’s Thesis);
“Specificities of leases for commerce or industry”, in Estudos em homenagem ao Professor Doutor Inocêncio Galvão Telles, Vol. III, Coimbra: Almedina, 2002;
Documento e Recurso Cível, Almedina, Coimbra, 2011 (2nd edition of O documento superveniente para efeitos de recurso ordinário e extraordinário, Coimbra: Almedina, 2001);
“Impugnação de decisões da Autoridade da Concorrência em procedimento administrativo, in Concorrência & Regulação, no. 1, Jan.-Mar., 2012;
“A aplicação no tempo do novo regime jurídico da concorrência”, in Concorrência & Regulação, no. 10, Apr.-Jun., 2012;
Sociedade Unipessoal por quotas, Coimbra: Almedina, 2013 (reissued in 2014, 2015 and 2017);
Exoneration of the partner in Portuguese corporate and commercial law, Coimbra: Almedina, 2014 (Doctoral Thesis);
Sociedade unipessoal de direito angolano, Escolar Editora: Lobito-Angola, 2015;
“The US corporate ‘system’”, in Direito das Sociedades em Revista, March 2015 (Year 7), Vol. 13;
“The single shareholder company of the Mozambican Commercial Law”, in Lisbon Law Review – Revista da Faculdade de Direito da Universidade de Lisboa, Faculdade de Direito da Universidade de Lisboa, 2015;
“Legal-private litigation and competition law – Directive 2014/104/EU of 26 November 2014: disclosure of evidence, effects of national decisions, limitation periods and joint and several liability”, in Revista de Concorrência & Regulação Competition & Regulation, no. 19, July/September, 2014 (available in 2016), (available on line: http://www.concorrencia.pt);
“Angola’s competition law regime: in search of genealogy and a first look“, in Revista da Faculdade de Direito da Universidade de Katyawala Bwila, Year I, 1, Apr. 2019;
General Commercial Law of OHADA and Guinea-Bissau, AAFDL/Corubal: Lisbon/Bissau, 2020.