José Eduardo Martins
Partner | Lisbon
- Practice Areas
- Public and Environment
- Real Estate
- Industries
- Defence and Homeland Security
- Environment
- Energy & Natural Resources
- Urban & Regional Planning
- Oil & Gas
- Mining
- Projects & Structured Finance
- Art & Entertainment
- Desks
- Cabo Verde Desk
- Languages
- French
- English
- Spanish
- Contacts
José Eduardo Martins is a Partner and has been at Abreu Advogados since 2005 working primarily in the areas of Environmental, Commercial, and Real Estate Law and is one of the most vastly experienced Portuguese lawyers in the areas of environment, energy and natural resources.
He is the Partner responsible for the Environmental Law practice area and the Angola and Cape Verde Desks, but he works with all Portuguese Speaking jurisdictions on matters related to the production of electricity, carbon license generation and transactions, environmental asset accounting, water and waste management.
José Eduardo also has extensive experience in the public sector, having been Secretary of State for the Environment in the XV Portuguese Constitutional Government, from 2002 – 2004, and a Member of the Portuguese Parliament from 1999 to 2012.
In 2021, José Eduardo was appointed President of the Environment and Energy Commission of the International Chamber of Commerce Portugal (ICC Portugal).
Experience
Education
University of Lisbon
Law degree from the University of Lisbon Faculty of Law (1993)