PLMJ

EU and Competition Law

Partner

Rita is a partner in the EU and Competition Law practice. With over 15 years’ professional experience, she has focused on advising public and private clients on competition law matters. These matters include state aid, cartel cases, abuse of dominant position or vertical agreements, merger control and compliance programmes.

With particular expertise in the financial, aviation, distribution, energy and waste management sectors, Rita represents clients before the Competition Authority, the European Commission and Portuguese and European courts.

Rita has an LL.M. in competition law from King's College London and completed postgraduate courses in economics for competition law, also from King's College London, and in competition law and regulation and consumer law from the Faculty of Law of the University of Lisbon.

Before joining PLMJ, she was a lawyer at VdA and worked in the restrictive practices department of the Portuguese Competition Authority.

Portuguese and English

Competition Committee of the International Chamber of Commerce in Portugal

CAPDC - Circle of Portuguese Competition Lawyers

Law degree from the University of Lisbon, 2001

Admitted to the Portuguese Bar Association, 2003

Postgraduate in economics and competition law from King's College London, 2011

LL.M. in competition law from King's College London, 2007

Postgraduate in competition law and regulation from the Faculty of Law of the University of Lisbon, 2005.

Postgraduate course in consumer law at the Faculty of Law of the University of Lisbon