Employment

Abreu Advogados

The ‘coherent and dedicated’ team at Abreu Advogados expertly manages both contentious and non-contentious employment issues, offering strategic guidance to clients across a range of sectors, including healthcare, pharmaceuticals, automotive, retail, and TMT. Carmo Sousa Machado continues to play a pivotal role in some of the largest multinational group restructuring deals in Portugal. She leads the team alongside Patrícia Perestrelo, who specialises in matters related to corporate restructuring operations involving labour issues. Sofia Silva e Sousa focuses on regulatory matters, offering strategic human resources advice to both national and multinational corporations.

Legal 500 Editorial commentary

Testimonials

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'Team with great technical knowledge and diversity. Great availability and collaboration.'
‘Coherent and dedicated team, knowledgeable, and knowing when to add colleagues with different expertise. Clear billing.’
‘Multidisciplinary team, with rapid action and guaranteed competence and added value.'
‘Diogo Orvalho is extremely available and responds promptly, clearly and incisively to our questions and requests. As our point of contact within Abreu, he acts as a pivot within the organisation, taking charge of seeking solutions that fall outside his scope of competence.'

Key clients

Aernnova
Ai9.PT
Allianceprov Portugal SGPS, S.A.
Alstom Portugal
Astellas Pharma Group
Auchan Retail Portugal, S.A.
Axa S.A.
Axa Assistance Serviços Portugal, S.A.
BC Group
BIOGEN Portugal, Sociedade Farmacêutica Unipessoal, Lda.
Boiron
Canon Medical Systems
Cascais Próxima - Gestão de Mobilidade, Espaços Urbanos e Energias, E.M. - S.A.
Catana Group
Colt Technology Services
Cordis Portugal, Unipessoal, Lda.
Corinthia Hotels
CTT – Correios De Portugal
De Heus
Dura Automotive
Edugep - Concepção, Desenvolvimento e Gestão de Projectos de Natureza Educacional, Social e Cultural Lda;
Expeditors International of Washington, Inc.
GLOBALVIA
Groupe SEB Ibérica
Hidden Hearing Portugal
Iberdrola Group
Ing Bank N.V. Sucursal Em Portugal
Inter Partner Assistance, S.A.
IKEA Group
Isdin Portugal
JJW Hotels & Resorts Group
José Luís Ferreira Barroso
Laboratoires Arkopharma
Lusíadas Group
Microsoft
Newrest International Group
OGMA – INDÚSTRIA AERONÁUTICA DE PORTUGAL, S.A.
IPAV - INSTITUTO PADRE ANTÓNIO VIEIRA
Dura Automotive
Nuno José Barbosa Veloso Gregório
Oxy Capital
Randstad
Restflight
RSA – Gestão e Investimentos, Lda.
Samvardhana Motherson Peguform Automotive Portugal
Sindicato Nacional Do Pessoal De Voo Da Aviação Civil – SNPVAC
Sidul Açúcares, Unipessoal, Lda
Sóteis – Sociedade Internacional de Turismo
Sporting Clube De Portugal/Sporting Clube De Portugal Futebol SAD
Staples
Synlab
Tata Consulting Services
TESLA
Testo Portugal, Unipessoal Lda;
Tomtom Sales B.V.
Transcom
Uniplaces
Vinted
Zadig & Voltaire
ZoidDeEstugarda (Zoi)
5ca

Work highlights

Assisted Transcom with its acquisition of timeframe.
Assisting SINDICATO NACIONAL DO PESSOAL DE VOO DA AVIAÇÃO CIVIL – SNPVAC in the negotiating of the revision of the Collective Labour Agreements (“CLAs”) signed between SNPVAC and several Portuguese airlines companies.
Assisting Colt Technology Services with contractual matters, remote onboarding procedures, as well as flexible working options.