Maria José Almeida Ricardo

Legal Executive | Lisbon

Practice Areas
Corporate and M&A
Real Estate
Languages
  • English
  • French
  • Italian
  • German
  • Spanish
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Maria José Almeida Ricardo is a Legal Executive and has been at Abreu Advogados since 2011 and up until 2015 coordinated the Registry and Notary Department in Lisbon.

Her activity in Registration and Notary services encompasses the whole Firm, including in her capacity as a Certifying Entity of Certified Private Documents within Real Estate Law. Additionally, she is a part of some of the Firm’s teams participating in operations related to business structuring and corporate restructuring in the areas of corporate law and Notary and Registration.

She focuses particularly on matters related to the approval of annual reports, appointment of governing bodies, amendments of Articles of Incorporation, including amendments to registered offices, object, capital increases, incorporation, transformation, company mergers and closure, issuing of representative shares of Limited Company’s registered capital and their corresponding book entry, as well as corporate operations which include division, assignment and union of “quotas”, for example.

Maria José Almeida Ricardo was a member of the General Council, the national body of the Order of Solicitors and Enforcement Agents (OSAE), for the four-year period 2018-2021.

Experience

Internal Trainer of Trainee Lawyer in the area of Registration and Notary Services.

Advising on different operations and business sectors.

Review of documents to ensure that they are compliant with the notary and registry requirements.

Trainer in the Botto Machado training institute of the Order of Solicitors and Execution Agents.

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Academic

ISLA - Instituto Superior de Línguas e Administração, Lisboa

B.A degree in Translation and Interpretation (English/German) from ISLA - Instituto Superior de Línguas e Administração, Lisboa (1979).

Cambridge University

ILEC – Certificate in International Legal English received from Cambridge University, Cambridge School Lisbon (2015).

Cambridge University

“Certificate of Proficiency in English”, received from Cambridge University, Cambridge School Lisbon (1979).

Instituto Alemão

“Zertifikat Deutsch als Fremdsprache”, Instituto Alemão (1979).

Paralegal and Enforcement Agents Association

Course on training for Paralegals from, Chamber of Paralegals, currently the Paralegal and Enforcement Agents Association (OSAE), (OSAE), Lisbon (1997-1999).

Nova University

Degree in Modern Languages and Literature – Portuguese and English studies from the Nova University Lisbon, School of Social and Human Sciences (2000).

Paralegal and Enforcement Agents Association

Specialization course for Enforcement Agents, from the Chamber of Paralegals, currently the Paralegal and Enforcement Agents Association, Lisbon (2003).

ISCAD

Paralegal Graduation from ISCAD, Lisbon (2010)

ISCAD

Postgraduate degree in Registry and Notary Services from ISCAD, Lisbon (2012).