About

SUMOL+COMPAL is a Portuguese food and beverage company that manufactures and sells beverages in Portugal and internationally. Legal advice to the company is requested on a large range of areas, often of extreme complexity, which makes the legal team a very competent and trusted set of lawyers on a wide range of legal matters. Filipa Salazar Leite has led the legal department for more than 14 years, first as a secondee from an external legal consultant office and after as a full-time in-house lawyer. She has been recognised by nominators for being an asset to the department: ‘She is a very dynamic and innovative lawyer, always searching for new and more efficient solutions, to assure SUMOL+COMPAL’s success. Furthermore, she is unanimously considered as a conciliating, participative and collaborative member of the team’. SUMOL+COMPAL is a large renowned company with growing challenges, not only as an international company with businesses in many countries, mainly across Africa, Europe and Asia, but also as a big national company who deals with complex legal matters within several different companies of the same Group. This includes the composition of its share capital and the obligations of a listed company. The legal team coordinates all the legal issues of SUMOL+COMPAL not only in Portugal but in several jurisdictions as the company is experiencing incredible growth in Africa, namely in Angola and Mozambique, and is also investing in new jurisdictions such as Gabon, Cameroon, Guinea and others.