We are a boutique law firm specializing in competition, regulatory and EU law in Lisbon. We work with other national and international law firms, offering specialized services in areas such as restrictive competition practices, merger control and state aid. We also advise Portuguese and EU public bodies, including representing regulators in litigation before national courts and the Court of Justice of the European Union.
News
Article "The long-awaited transposition of the Directive on representative shares in Portugal" published in CoRe Magazine
The inaugural 2024 edition of the European Competition and Regulatory Law Review (CoRe) published a report on Portugal by our Associate Catarina Bártolo de Melo.The article entitled "The Long-Awaited Transposition of the Directive on Representative Actions in Portugal" addresses the context and scope of Decree-Law no. 114-A/2023, of December 5, which transposes Directive 2020/1828/EU into Portuguese law, highlighting the innovations in relation to previous legislation.Our Associate also highlights the most recent developments in popular actions in Portugal.You can read the full article
here
Workshop on "Fair Settlement of Compensation"
Our Associate, Nuno Pires Salpico, will be responsible for the Workshop "Equitable Fixation of Damages" organized by Almedina Mais and Consenso, which will take place on April 10.The course aims to give an overview of the criteria for the equitable fixing of damages, using article 566, no. 3 of the Civil Code as a basic example.
The program and registration can be found here.
Calculation of Damages and Equity - Application, Scope and Limits of Article 566(3) of the Civil Code
Nuno Pires Salpico is the author of the monograph "Calculation of Damages and Equity - Application, Scope and Limits of Article 566(3) of the Civil Code", published by Editora Almedina.Our associate addresses the problem of calculating damages in non-contractual civil liability and, in particular, the evidential difficulties when quantifying damages is difficult.The interest shown by the legal community in this study is shown by the fact that the work was considered a Bestseller in the Civil Law category shortly after its publication.
Events
16 February 2024
Sousa Ferro at the webinar Changing Law: "Class Actions under Decree-Law 114-A/2023"
Our associate Francisca Pinto Dias will be taking part in the webinar "Class Actions - Critical Appraisal of Decree-Law 114-A/2023", organized by the Legal Institute of the University of Coimbra.
The webinar will take place on February 16 at 17:00.
You can register here
8 February 2024
Sousa Ferro at the "Private Enforcement of Competition Law" conference in Brussels
Our Managing Partner, Miguel Sousa Ferro, will be a speaker on the panel entitled "Collective Actions, Claims Bundling & Claims Aggregation: Approaches across Europe", which will take place on February 8, 2024, in Brussels, and will be organized by informa.
You can read more about the event here.
15 December 2023
Sousa Ferro at "EL PROBLEMÁTICO ACCESO DE LOSCONSUMIDORES A LA JUSTICIA" conference
Miguel Sousa Ferro will participate as a speaker at the conference "EL PROBLEMÁTICO ACCESO DE LOSCONSUMIDORES A LA JUSTICIA", organized by the GIR on Competition Law and Competition and Distribution Law of the Universidad de Valladolid, Spain.Our partner will be speaking on the panel "Consumer redress for antitrust infringements in Europe: from desert to oasis (or mirage)?"The conference will take place on December 15 at the Universidad de Valladolid, Spain.Read the programme here.
Practice Areas
Administrative Law
Constitutional Law
Regulatory Law
European Union Law
Commercial and Corporate Law
Competition Law
Pharmaceutical Law
Unfair commercial practices
Recent Cases
Abuse of EDP's dominant position - Popular action
National Association of Surveyors - Class action
Apple iPhones (water resistance) - Class action
Mastercard (CIM) - Class action
Super Bock (RPM Horeca) - Class action
Our Team
José Sá Reis
Partner
Ana Rita Barroca
Partner
António Escalda
Senior Associate
Elsa Seara
Senior Associate
Margarida Gomes Branco
Senior Associate
Nuno Pires Salpico
Associate
Ricardo J. Silva
Associate
Catarina Bártolo de Melo
Associate
Francisca Pinto Dias
Associate
Madalena Simões Vaz
Trainee Lawyer
Manuel Vaz Brandão
Researcher
Ana Luís
Office Manager
Bárbara Campos
Forensic Secretary
Sónia Silva
Financial Controller
Francisca Pinto Dias is an academic and lawyer, admitted to the Portuguese Bar Association in 2023.As an academic, she has been a Visiting Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Law of the University of Coimbra, in the Legal-Philosophical Sciences and Legal-Civil Sciences departments, since February 2022.In recent years, in addition to studying a wide range of topics in the area of consumer law, she has focused her legal research on collective consumer protection. In 2020, she defended her master's thesis, entitled "Collective redress - some procedural problems". He is currently working on his PhD thesis on jurisdiction in cross-border class actions.He has also taught several courses in postgraduate and specialization courses in consumer law and in the Bar Association's training cycles on the subject of collective consumer protection.
Practice Areas
Unfair commercial practices
Competition law
European Union law
Education
Law degree from the Faculty of Law of the University of Coimbra (2014-2018)
Postgraduate course in Contract Law at the Consumer Law Center of the Faculty of Law of the University of Coimbra (2018-2019)
Postgraduate course in Contract and Consumer Law taught by the Center for Consumer Law of the Faculty of Law of the University of Coimbra (2019-2020)
Postgraduate course in Banking, Stock Exchange and Insurance Law taught by the Institute of Banking, Stock Exchange and Insurance Law of the Faculty of Law of the University of Coimbra (2019-2020)
Master's Degree in Civil Legal Sciences with a specialization in Civil Procedural Law at the Faculty of Law of the University of Coimbra (2018-2020)
PhD (in progress), specialization in Legal-Procedural Sciences (2021-present) at the University of Coimbra Faculty of Law
Bar Admissions
Portuguese Bar Association, 2023
Professional Activities
Secretary of ALUMNI - Association of Former Students of the Faculty of Law of the University of Coimbra
Guest lecturer at the Faculty of Law and the Faculty of Science and Technology of the University of Coimbra
Publications
“Responsabilidade civil pelo tratamento de dados pessoais: a responsabilidade do controller por factos próprios e por factos de outrem”, in Revista de Direito da Responsabilidade, Ano 1, 2019;
“A dimensão processual da proteção de dados pessoais”, in Revista de Direito da Responsabilidade, Ano 4, 2022;
“A responsabilidade civil dos centros de arbitragem de conflitos de consumo: algumas pistas de reflexão”, in Revista de Direito da Responsabilidade, Ano 4, 2022;
“Ações coletivas e competência judiciária”, in Estudos de Direito do Consumidor, 2022;
“As providências cautelares arbitrais: algumas notas à luz do Direito Português”, in Revista
Científica da Ordem dos Advogados do Brasil Secção Piauí, volume 10, n.º 2, 2022;
“A empreitada de consumo de bens móveis”, in Revista de Direito da Responsabilidade, Ano 5, 2023;
“O contrato de empreitada de bens imóveis nas relações de consumo”, in Revista Ex Libris, n.º 3, 2023;
“Desafios do mercado digital para o Direito do Consumo: Big Data, profiling e personalização de preços com base em decisões automatizadas”, in Os Direitos Humanos e a ética na era da inteligência artificial, (org.) João Alexandre Silva Guimarães, Rodrigo Vitorino Souza Alves, São Paulo: Editora Foco, 2023;
“A resolução de litígios de consumo em linha: o Regulamento (UE) n.º 524/2013 e a plataforma de RLL”, in Presente e Futuro do Processo Civil: A Caminho de uma (R)evolução?, (coord.) Lurdes Varregoso Mesquita, Coimbra: GestLegal, 2023.
Lawyer since 2022, providing legal advice on the resolution of judicial and extrajudicial conflicts in various matters, representing national and foreign clients, with a special focus on civil law, contracts, criminal law and family and succession law.He joined the Sousa Ferro & Associados team in 2023.
Practice Areas
Civil Procedure Law
Contracts
Criminal Procedure Law
Family and Succession Law
Education
Degree from the Faculty of Law of the Portuguese Catholic University of Lisbon
Master's Degree in Forensic Law from the Faculty of Law of the Portuguese Catholic University of Lisbon
Bar Admissions
Portuguese Bar Association, 2022
Miguel Sousa Ferro is an academic and lawyer with over 15 years' experience in European Union law, competition law and regulatory law. He is a leader in Portugal in class actions and competition law, with a special focus on private enforcement and consumer protection.Miguel's career has spanned several law firms in Brussels - Cleary Gottlieb, Uría - and Lisbon - Vieira de Almeida, Sérvulo, Paz Ferreira - and the General Court of the European Union.Miguel represents the plaintiff in the first class action brought in Portugal to defend consumers for a breach of competition law, in 2015, and is lead counsel in the first two such actions brought before the Competition, Regulation and Supervision Court under the new Private Enforcement of Competition Law, in 2020.As an academic, Miguel is a Professor at the Faculty of Law of the University of Lisbon, where he has taught since 2008. He has also taught at the Universities of Toulouse, Byalystok and Timor-Leste, the College of Europe and the European University (Portugal). He is co-Director of the Journal of Competition and Regulation, and has published 6 books and more than 100 articles in national and international journals. His most recent books were "The EU Antitrust Damages Directive: Transposition in the Member States" (Oxford University Press) and "Market Definition in EU Competition Law" (Edward Elgar).He was a member of the expert working groups that assisted the Competition Authority in preparing drafts for the transposition of Directives 2014/104/EU (Private Enforcement of Competition) and 2019/01/EU (ECN+), and worked on several other legislative processes in Portugal.Miguel has authored several legal opinions on competition and EU law for courts and arbitrations in Portugal and the Netherlands.Miguel is also a Judge at the European Court of Nuclear Energy (2020/2024).
Practice Areas
Competition Law
Regulatory Law
European Union law
Unfair commercial practices
Education
PhD, University of Lisbon Law School, 2014
LLM, College of Europe, 2006
Undergraduate degree, University of Lisbon Law School, 2005
Bar Admissions
Portuguese Bar Association
Professional Activities
Judge at the European Nuclear Energy Tribunal
Co-Director of the Journal of Competition and Regulation
Member of the Board of the Competition Observatory
Member of the working groups that assisted the PCA in drafting the transposition of Directives 2014/104/EU (Private Enforcement of Competition) and 2019/01/EU (ECN+)
José Sá Reis has been involved in academia for 25 years, as Professor and Director of the Law Degree at the Faculty of Law of the University of Porto. He has published several articles and book chapters in the areas of Competition Law, Company Law, Commercial Law and Contracts. As an academic, he has also signed numerous opinions in these areas.Although he has been a member of the Portuguese Bar Association since 1995, he was not practicing for some years. He resumed his activity as a lawyer in 2019, joining Sousa Ferro & Associados as a partner.
Practice Areas
Competition Law
Regulatory Law
European Union law
Unfair commercial practices
Education
PhD, University of Porto Law School, 2015
LLM, University of London, 1997
Law degree, University of Coimbra Law School, 1992
Bar Admissions
Portuguese Bar Association, 1995
Professional Activities
Fortnightly columnist for Jornal de Negócios
Ana Rita Barroca is a lawyer with 17 years' experience in civil and corporate litigation.Her initial training led her to specialize in complex litigation related to contractual and non-contractual liability, as well as corporate governance and company law.From 2007 until July 2018, Ana Rita taught as a guest lecturer at the Castelo Branco Polytechnic Institute, where she was responsible for the subject of Health Law.Later, she continued her studies in the area of administrative law, completing her research master's degree ("summa cum laude") with a dissertation on public procurement "in house" entitled "The Principle of Competition in Public Procurement without Competition".
Practice Areas
Competition Law
Administrative Law
Commercial and Corporate Law
Unfair commercial practices
Education
UCP, Research Master's Degree in Administrative Law, 2020
UCP, Postgraduate in Legal Science, 2010
FDUC, Postgraduate course in Civil Procedural Law, 2004-2006
FDUC, Postgraduate course in Corporate Tax Law, 2003-2006
FDUC, Postgraduate Studies in Corporate Law, 2003-2006
FDUC, Postgraduate Studies in Urban Planning and Environmental Law, 2001-2003
FDUC, Law Degree, 2000
Bar Admissions
Portuguese Bar Association, 2003
António Escalda has been with Sousa Ferro & Associados since 2022. He is a lawyer with over twenty years' experience in litigation.In this area, he has handled a variety of disputes, mainly civil, commercial, corporate and banking, both in the courts and in arbitration tribunals.He published "Código Civil Português - Anotado e Actualizado", 16th edition, Almedina, co-authored with Jacinto Rodrigues Bastos.
Practice Areas
Competition law
Unfair commercial practices
Education
Postgraduate, UCP, 2004-2005
Degree, UCP, 2002
Bar Admissions
Portuguese Bar Association, 2004
Elsa Seara has a law degree from the Faculty of Law in Lisbon and has been practicing law for over 20 years. Elsa began her career as an in-house corporate lawyer for a large construction company operating in the Portuguese public market. From 2005, she worked at the law firm J.A.P.R (now Pinto Ribeiro Advogados), where she coordinated the litigation department and worked closely with the corporate, M&A and Venture Capital departments. She specializes in litigation and arbitration, with extensive experience in corporate and commercial litigation, with an emphasis on insolvency and banking disputes, involving domestic and international interests.He joined Sousa Ferro & Associados in September 2022.
Practice Areas
Commercial and Corporate
Formação
Admissões à Ordem
Portuguese Bar Association, 2001
Margarida Gomes Branco has a law degree from the Faculty of Law of the Portuguese Catholic University and has been practicing law for over 15 years, having started her career at the law firm "Sérvulo & Associados".She has practiced in the areas of civil, criminal and misdemeanor litigation, banking, executive, insolvency and family and minors.She joined Sousa Ferro & Associados in August 2023.
Practice Areas
Civil, criminal and misdemeanor litigation
Competition law
Unfair commercial practices
Education
2008 - 2009 Postgraduate course in Banking Law at the University of Lisbon Law School
2002 - 2007 Law degree from the Portuguese Catholic University
Bar Admissions
Portuguese Bar Association, 2010
Nuno Pires Salpico is a guest assistant (since 2019) and lawyer (since 2023), practicing in the areas of Civil Law, Civil Liability and Private Enforcement of Consumer Law, Competition Law and Regulation.Nuno started as Counsel at Sousa Ferro & Associados in 2020 and, in the same year, began his career as a trainee lawyer. In 2023 he completed his aggregation at the Portuguese Bar Association.As an academic, he has been a guest lecturer in legal and economic sciences at the Faculty of Law of the University of Lisbon since 2019.He has published research articles in the areas of Civil Liability, Evidence Law, and Competition and Regulation Law.One of his scientific publications has already been cited by the Lisbon Court of Appeal and the Coimbra Court of Appeal.
Practice Areas
Competition Law
Pharmaceutical Law
Unfair commercial practices
European Union law
Education
FDUL, Master in Law and Legal Science - Civil Law, 2023
CIDP-FDUL, Postgraduate in Banking Law, 2020
FDUL, Degree in Law, 2018
Bar Admissions
Portuguese Bar Association, 2023
Professional Activities
Visiting Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Law of the University of Lisbon; Researcher at CIDEFF
Reviewer for national and European periodicals; Montijo Municipal Deputy
Publications
“As restrições à concorrência nas plataformas de cartões de pagamento através das Interchange Fees” in Revista de Concorrência & Regulação, ano XI, n.º 41, 2020, pp. 37-73;
“A inversão do ónus da prova devido a impossibilidade de prova culposamente causada (art.344º/2 CC)” in Revista Ius Dictum, n.º 1, 2020, pp. 45-75;
“A compensatio lucri cum damno: em especial, por violação de direitos de personalidade”, Revista de Direito Civil, ano 5, n.º 2, 2020, pp. 305-353;
“A operacionalidade do Private Enforcement do Direito da Concorrência – dissuasão, ações coletivas e third-party ligation funding”, Revista de Concorrência & Regulação, ano XIII, n.º 45, 2021, pp. 103-141;
“Pay for delay e patentes farmacêuticas: notas de private enforcement do direito da concorrência”, in Revista Jurídica, AAFDL, n.º 32-33, 2021, pp. 25-42;
[Em co-autoria] Miguel Sousa Ferro & Nuno Salpico, “Indemnização dos consumidores como prioridade dos reguladores”, Revista da Faculdade de Direito de Lisboa, ano LXII, N.º 2, 2021 (março, 2022), pp. 407-445;
“Portugal: EC Law private enforcement’s holy grail?” in European Competition and Regulatory Law Review, vol. 6, issue 3, 2022, pp. 266-270
Manuel Brandão has been a researcher since 2022, collaborating in the areas of Administrative Law, Competition Law, Consumer Law and Unfair Commercial Practices.He is currently studying for a Master's degree in Administrative Law at the Faculty of Law of the University of Lisbon.
Practice Areas
Administrative Law
Competition Law
Unfair commercial practices
Education
Master's student, FDUL, Present
Degree, FDUL, 2022
She started at Sousa Ferro & Associados in 2021 as a researcher, and in 2022 she began her career as a trainee lawyer.At the same time, she is finishing her Master's degree in International and European Law, currently in the non-teaching phase, with the writing of her dissertation in European Law and Environmental Law.Since 2019, she has been training in areas such as Competition Law (Faculty of Law, University of Lisbon 2019); Medical and Health Law (University of Innsbruck, Faculty of Law, 2019); Public International Law (Faculty of Law, University of Lisbon, 2021) and Sustainability and Law (Abreu, 2022).
Practice Areas
Competition law
Unfair commercial practices
European Union law
Education
Master's Degree, Nova School of Law, International and European Law (currently writing dissertation)
Degree, University of Lisbon Law School, 2021
Bar Admissions
Trainee lawyer at the Portuguese Bar Association, 2022
Ricardo J. Silva is a trainee lawyer (since 2021), practicing in the areas of Civil Law, Consumer Law and Competition and Regulation Law.As an association leader, he took on the role of Coordinator at the Coimbra Academic Association's Law Students' Group, and was responsible for organizing multiple activities, including a congress. He was also a member of the interim board of the Debating Society of the University of Coimbra.
Practice Areas
Competition law
Unfair commercial practices
Education
FDUC, Master's student in Legal-Business Sciences (part of course completed), 2021
FDUC, Postgraduate in Banking Law, 2021
FDUC, Degree in Law, 2020
Bar Admissions
Portuguese Bar Association, 2023
Practice Areas
Commercial and Corporate
Sousa Ferro & Associados ensures the integrated treatment of all stages of corporate activity, providing advice from a compliance perspective on specific areas of activity or on legal regimes of transversal application. The monitoring of corporate coalition processes, in terms of the application of private law and European competition law, is an approach that is becoming increasingly important and which Sousa Ferro & Associados is committed to providing with all the knowledge and experience of its team.
Pharmaceutical Law
The development of biotechnology and pharmaceuticals in recent times has been a strong driver for the industrial and business sectors. In this area, we are at our clients' side, providing legal advice in the areas of safety and access to medicines.
Administrative Law
Our team's experience and accumulated knowledge ensure that we can combine the analysis of substantive areas of administrative law with the defense of our clients' interests in administrative litigation, guaranteeing a comprehensive approach to legal-administrative issues.
Unfair commercial practices
The core of Sousa Ferro & Associados is the defense of consumers against commercial practices that harm their interests and rights. It channels the experience of its lawyers into sponsoring popular actions with the aim of guaranteeing compensation for all consumers who feel they have been harmed by a particular illegal market practice and for the future elimination of these practices.
Constitutional Law
Our activity as defenders of consumer rights is based on structuring constitutional principles and fundamental rights, weighing up and reconciling fundamental law with the principles and primacy of European law, so that no one is denied access to justice, the right to effective compensation for damages and the defense of their constitutional rights.
Regulatory Law
Finding the difficult balance between the necessary reaction to market failures and the imperfection of state intervention in the economy.We are particularly dedicated to• advising and drafting opinions on the interpretation and application of regulatory law, in particular the regulation of energy and telecommunications;• advising European and national regulatory authorities and representing them before the CJEU and Portuguese courts.
European Union Law
European law is Portuguese law. There is no area of law that is not affected by European law.We are particularly dedicated to• advising and drafting opinions, particularly for judicial or arbitration proceedings, on the interpretation and application of EU law;• drafting procedural documents and intervening before the Court of Justice of the European Union, in the context of preliminary rulings or direct appeals before the CJEU.
Competition Law
Competition increases efficiency and consumer welfare. Ensuring respect for competition law contributes to the common good.We are particularly dedicated to• defending the interests of injured parties in the private enforcement of the law on practices that restrict competition;• advice, notification and intervention in merger control;• advising on State aid rules and intervening in State aid proceedings;• drafting opinions, particularly for judicial or arbitration proceedings, on the interpretation and application of competition law.
Recent Cases
Apple iPhones (water resistance) - Class action lawsuit
We represent the consumer association Ius Omnibus, on behalf of all Portuguese consumers who bought iPhones 7 to 12, seeking compensation for the overpricing they paid for these products due to misleading advertising about the iPhones' resistance and liquid characteristics, and asking for an order that Apple refrain from such misleading advertising in the future. Total damages estimated at 137 million euros. More information here.
National Association of Surveyors - Popular action
We represented consumer association Ius Omnibus to obtain compensation for all Portuguese consumers harmed by the anti-competitive price-fixing decision of the National Association of Surveyors, in force from 2003 to 2020. We achieved the first settlement in a popular competition action in Portugal, guaranteeing compensation (5% overpricing) for all consumers who purchased surveying services during the relevant period. More information here.
Aldeia do Cachão - Extrajudicial action
We represented the population of the village of Cachão, in the north of Portugal, to prevent the installation of a garbage truck washing and parking facility in the middle of the village. We achieved out-of-court success through cooperation with Mirandela Town Council and the company concerned. More information here.
Super Bock (RPM Horeca) - Popular action
We represent the consumer association Ius Omnibus, together with Cardigos & Associados, seeking compensation for all Portuguese consumers who have bought drinks from the Super Bock group in the Horeca channel over more than 20 years. Partly based on the decision of the Competition Authority which declared a practice of resale price fixing by Super Bock. Total damages estimated at EUR 401 million. More information here.
Mastercard (CIM) - Class action
We represent the consumer association Ius Omnibus, together with Pais de Vasconcelos & Associados, seeking compensation for all Portuguese consumers harmed by the practices of the Mastercard group identified in the European Commission's decision in the Mastercard II case. Total damages estimated at EUR 400 million. More information here.
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Date: September 2023
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Miscellaneous ProvisionsThese terms and conditions may be amended and supplemented at any time and without prior notice, so it is advisable to consult them regularly. Each time you use the site, you accept these terms and conditions in accordance with the above.For further information, please contact Sousa Ferro & Associados at [email protected].