Alexandra Nascimento Correia

Partner | Lisbon

Alexandra Nascimento Correia is an executive member of the Board of Directors of Abreu Advogados. Partner since 2016, she is cohead of the Litigation and Arbitration practice area. She works mainly with conflict resolution, in civil and commercial litigation and has been particularly dedicated to arbitration, both international and domestic.

She has been advising national and foreign clients on numerous disputes relating to breaches of contract, civil liability and debt recovery.

Due to the diversity of issues she has dealt with, the advice she provides covers many markets and sectors such as financial investment in venture capital, energy sector opportunities for foreign investors, contracts for hotel developments, international distribution agreements for the electronics and food industry, and liability proceedings on the grounds of medical liability.

Dispute Resolution: Next Generation Partner, 2022

International Arbitration, Portugal (2022)

Experience

Advising a Portuguese company in the energy sector in several arbitrations under the auspices of the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC).

Advising Luxembourg and Spanish pension funds and financial entities in various arbitrations relating to venture capital investments in Portuguese companies.

Advising a leading Spanish company in the energy sector in an arbitration against a Portuguese company that manages the main electricity and natural gas transportation infrastructures.

Advising foreign companies on the recovery of credits held over a Portuguese bank.

Advising a leading North American company in the manufacture and sale of soft drinks on contractual liability claims brought by its former distributors in Portugal.

Advising a multinational company in the automobile sector on the recovery of credit held by its Portuguese distributor and its respective guarantors, involving the enforcement of their personal assets.

Advising a Portuguese private bank on the assignment of credit held by a Portuguese company undergoing restructuring, within the framework of a Special Revitalization Process, to a foreign investor and within the scope of the approval of the respective revitalization plan.

Advising a Portuguese company in an international mediation process, carried out under the auspices of the ICC, in a dispute related to a contract for the provision of services signed with a British television channel during the Football World Cup in Brazil.

Associations

Education

Faculdade de Direito da Universidade de Lisboa

Law degree (1997)

Universidade Católica Portuguesa

Postgraduate degree (2005)

Universidade Católica Portuguesa

LLM in International Business Law (2012)

Universidade Católica Portuguesa

Master’s degree in Law from the Portuguese Catholic University (2013)