Mr Pedro de Gouveia e Melo > Morais Leitão, Galvão Teles, Soares da Silva & Associados > Lisbon, Portugal > Lawyer Profile
Morais Leitão, Galvão Teles, Soares da Silva & Associados Offices
RUA CASTILHO, 165
1070-050 LISBOA
Portugal
- Firm Profile
- Go to...
Mr Pedro de Gouveia e Melo
Position
Partner.
Career
Pedro de Gouveia e Melo joined the firm in 2002. He is a member of the European Law and Competition team.
Pedro’s practice focuses on representing and advising clients on all fields of competition law (merger control, State aid, antitrust investigations and counselling), in a wide range of industries, such as energy, financial services and food & beverages. He also advises on EU law, in particular the Internal Market rules, the Common Agricultural Policy and Structural Funds.
He has significant experience in cases before both the Portuguese Competition Authority and the European Commission, as well as in litigation before the European Court of Justice, the EU General Court and the Portuguese courts. He has also worked in cases before the U.S. Antitrust Agencies and the European Court of Human Rights.
In recent years he has been active in advising clients on competition law in Angola and Mozambique as a member of the Africa Team, including in cases before each country’s Competition Regulatory Authority.
Pedro was seconded to Latham & Watkins LLP in Washington, DC in 2007.
Languages
Portuguese, English, French and Spanish.
Memberships
Portuguese Bar Association (admitted in 2004). U.A.E. – European Lawyers’ Union (Vice-President between 2018 and 2020 and President since November 2020). Association of Portuguese Competition Lawyers. Portuguese Association of European Law. American Bar Association (Antitrust Law Section).
Education
Law Degree (Católica Lisbon School of Law, 2001). LL.M. in European Community Law (College d’Europe, 2002).
Lawyer Rankings
Portugal > EU and competition
(Next Generation Partners)Pedro de Gouveia e Melo –Morais Leitão, Galvão Teles, Soares da Silva & Associados
The ‘very experienced and efficient team’ at Morais Leitão, Galvão Teles, Soares da Silva & Associados is variously praised for its ability to provide an ‘excellent’ service to its diverse client roster of multinational corporations, domestic players, financial institutions and public entities. With a particular strength in managing complex multijurisdictional matters, the practice is jointly led by two competition law specialists: Joaquim Vieira Peres, recommended for his experience in merger control procedures across the retail, real estate, insurance and telecoms sectors; and Luís do Nascimento Ferreira, who advises domestic and international clients on the full gamut of antitrust matters, including merger control, restrictive practices and State aid. Pedro de Gouveia e Melo is noted for his expertise in complex judicial appeals against infringement decisions of the Portuguese Competition Authority (PCA). Inês Gouveia, who is based in Porto, guides a host of clients in their interactions with competition authorities at the domestic and EU-level. Head of the German desk Philipp Melcher possesses a wealth of experience in ‘litigation in the Court of Justice of the European Union‘ and is ‘very knowledgeable‘ of State aid matters. Gonçalo Machado Borges has left the firm.
Lawyer Rankings
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Banking and finance
- Capital markets
- Commercial, corporate and M&A
- Data privacy and data protection
- Dispute resolution
- Employment
- Energy and natural resources
- EU and competition
- Fraud and white-collar crime
- Insolvency and restructuring
- Intellectual property
- Planning law
- Porto: Leading commercial firms
- Public law
- Real estate and construction
- Tax
- Transport