Abreu Advogados

Employment Law.

Partner.

Carmo Sousa Machado has been at Abreu Advogados since 1996, having become a Partner in 1999. She works primarily on matters related to civil and employment law, including litigation. She was responsible for the creation of the employment law practice area at Abreu Advogados, a practice area to which she has dedicated over twenty years of her career.

She has been the Chairman of the Board of Directors of Abreu Advogados since April 2017, and was Managing Partner from 2004 to 2007.

Since 2019, she is Chair of Multilaw, a leading global network of independent law firms. She is also Vice-President at Portuguese Bar Association, for the triennium 2020-2022.

She has extensive practical experience on matters relating to acquisitions, sales, mergers and restructuring from the human resources/labour perspective, whether upstream, when conducting due diligences, or downstream, when implementing operations. She is also experienced in the transfer of establishments and related matters, in hiring and terminating namely of senior employees, in conducting disciplinary proceedings, and in pre-litigation and litigation procedures in labour disputes.

Her practice covers a variety of business sectors, but centres on the health, transport, construction, services, retail and communications sectors, where she has been involved in some of the largest multinational group restructuring deals taking place in Portugal.

Portuguese, English and Spanish.

Portuguese Bar Association. European Employment Lawyers Association. International Bar Association. Multilaw. Professional Women's Network. Portuguese Association of Employment Law.

Law degree from the University of Lisbon Faculty of Law (1990);

Postgraduate diploma in Labour Law from the University of Lisbon, Faculty of Law (2000).