Paulo de Tarso Domingues

Partner | Oporto

Paulo de Tarso Domingues is a non-executive member of the Board of Directors of Abreu Advogados. Partner since 2009, works primarily on corporate law and arbitration.

He is a Full Professor and currently the Dean of the Faculty of Law of the University of Porto where he has been teaching classes in Commercial law since 1998. He is a Visiting Professor at several universities in Portugal and abroad.

He participates in lectures, conferences, seminars, postgraduate and Masters’ courses primarily in corporate law and at the School of Law at Salamanca University, Timor-Leste University, School of Law at the State University of Rio de Janeiro, School of Law at Coimbra University, School of Law at the Lisbon University, Portuguese Catholic University (Porto and Lisbon), School of Law at the Minho University and Universidade Nova, Lisbon.

He is the author of more than 80 publications, including monographs and scientific articles published in national and international journals, especially on corporate law, including, among others, the monographs “Corporate Financing by Shareholders” and “Corporate Binding: the Pyramidal Structure of Corporate Binding” and his collaboration on the handbook “Studies in Corporate Law” (12th edition), as well as on the 7 volumes of the Commercial Companies Code in commentary.

Porto General Business Law: Corporate, Band 3 (2024-2025)

Arbitration and Mediation, Portugal (2020-2022)

Corporate Law, Portugal (2020-2022)

Litigation, Portugal (2020-2022)

Experience

He participates as presiding arbitrator and arbitrator appointed by a party in arbitration proceedings;

He is the Chairman at different companies;

He provides legal opinions and legal consultations;

He has, over recent years, coordinated several acquisitions operations and advised on multiple corporate transactions;

As a lawyer he advises his clients on matters related to Litigation (Arbitration and Mediation, Civil Litigation, Corporate Litigation), Commercial Law (Corporate Law and Corporate Insolvency and Recovery).

Association

Academic

Universidade Católica Portuguesa

Law degree (1987)

Faculdade de Direito da Universidade da Coimbra

LLM in Corporate-Legal Sciences (1997)

Faculdade de Direito da Universidade do Porto

Doctorate in Law on Civil Law Sciences (in the area of Commercial Law) (2009)