Criminal Law and Administrative Offenses

Managing Associate

Sofia is a Senior Associate in Litigation and Arbitration, Criminal and Administrative Offenses, with two decades of experience.

Sofia has been focusing her career in the last years mostly on Criminal and Administrative offences cases.

Sofia has a large experience on Administrative offenses in various sectors, namely on banking and financial practices, environmental and aeronautical offences, in the administrative phase, connecting with administrative bodies with regulatory and sanctioning powers, as well as in Court.

On the Criminal cases Sofia has experience on a wide range of crimes, namely on fiscal and white-collar crime, and has been involved in major criminal cases, involving banks, public-private partnerships and corruption.

Managing Associate at PARES ADVOGADOS since 2022

Associate at PARES ADVOGADOS since 2011

Associate at Abreu Advogados (2007-2011)

Associate at J.A. Ribeiro & Associados (2004-2006)

Associate at Carlos Cruz & Associados (1999-2004)

Portuguese, English, Spanish

Registered in the Portuguese Bar Association

Post-Graduation in Air Law at the Law School of Lisbon (Academic year 2010-2011)

Specialised Program of Property Management, organised by the Confidencial Imobiliário / ISEG-CEGE (May to July 2007)

Post-Graduation in Environmental Law by the Law School of the Coimbra University (1998)

Degree in Law by the Law School of the Portuguese Catholic University (1995)