Corporate and M&A

Employment

Real Estate

Micaela Afonso is a Professional Partner and has been at Abreu Advogados since 2009, working primarily litigation in its different domains, specifically in the areas of commercial, corporate, employment, and insolvency law and civil law in which she focuses primarily on contract law.

She has also participated in corporate restructuring processes as they relate to corporate, commercial, civil and employment law including insolvency and pre-insolvency situations.

Additionally, she has extensive experience on advising companies in the area of employment law on matters relating to hiring, termination of employment contract (termination proceedings due to subjective and objective causes), transfer of establishment and collective hiring.

Portuguese Bar Association Inernational Bar Association

Professional Partner

Law degree from the University of Porto Faculty of Law (2001);

Postgraduate degree in labour law, under the scientific coordination of Professor Doutor Jorge Leite (2005);

Postgraduate degree in work safety and hygiene from the University of Madiera and ISCTE – Higher Institute of Administration and Management (2006);

Postgraduate degree in Tax from ISAG – Higher Institute of Administration and Management (2007);

Master in Law in the area of private legal sciences from the University of Porto (2013)