PLMJ

Public Law

Senior Counsel

Raquel is a sénior counsel in the public law practice and has more than 25 years’ experience as a lawyer. She focuses on administrative law, especially environmental law, public contracts, concessions and public works contracts.

Raquel advises Portuguese and international clients from various industries and sectors, in particular, paper pulp, packaging production, healthcare, the chemical industry and mass catering. She has also been very active in the analysis of environmental issues in the energy sector.

She has completed a postgraduate courses in European studies at Institut des Hautes Etudes Européennes - Université Robert Schuman, Strasbourg, the new Public Procurement Code at the Faculty of Law of Universidade Católica Portuguesa (Porto), and public regulation and competition at the Faculty of Law of the University. She has also taken a number of other specialisation courses.

Since 2011, Raquel has been a lecturer at the Faculty of Food and Nutrition Sciences of the University of Porto, on the degree and master’s courses in public procurement. She also lectures a seminar entitled Introduction to Environmental Law at the Faculty of Law of Universidade Católica Portuguesa (Porto).

Before joining PLMJ, Raquel was a lawyer in the public law practice of the law firm Cuatrecasas.

Portuguese and English

Law degree from Universidade Católica Portuguesa in Porto, 1993.

Admitted to the Portuguese Bar Association

Postgraduate course in European Studies at the Institut des Hautes Études Européenne - Université Robert Schuman, Strasbourg, 1994

Postgraduate course in ‘The New Public Procurement Code’ at the Faculty of Law of Universidade Católica Portuguesa in Porto, 2009

Specialisation course in public procurement and the evaluation of proposals in tender processes at the Faculty of Law of the University of Coimbra (CEDIPRE), 2009

Postgraduate course in public regulation and competition at the Faculty of Law of the University of Coimbra (CEDIPRE), 2010

Specialisation course on the municipal business sector at the Faculty of Law of the University of Coimbra (CEDIPRE), 2010

Short course on concessions and public-private partnerships at the Faculty of Law of Universidade Católica Portuguesa in Porto, 2011

Specialisation course in environmental law, spatial planning and urban development at the Centre for Spatial Planning and Urban Development Law, 2016