Alexandra Nascimento Correia

Practice Areas: Litigation and Arbitration

Industries: Banking & Financial Services; Construction; Energy & Natural Resources; Fashion, Luxury & Lifestyle; Health, Life Sciences & Pharmaceuticals

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

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

She is an expert in matters involving foreign commercial and financial investment, notably in private equity, and in cases involving important market players in specific business fields, such as the commercial use of natural infrastructures, namely electricity and natural gas storage. Due to the diversity of issues she has dealt with, the advice she provides covers disputes in many markets and sectors, such as financial investment in venture capital, foreign investment in the energy sector, contracts for hotel developments, international distribution agreements for the electronics and food industry, and medical and hospital civil liability.

Alexandra has been appointed as an arbitrator for civil and commercial disputes in ad hoc and ICC (International Chamber of Commerce) arbitrations. She also provides training to future arbitrators both in Portugal and abroad.

Alexandra is a member of the Board of the Commercial Arbitration Centre of the Portuguese Chamber of Commerce and Industry (CAC) and a member of the Board of the Litigation Lawyers’ Circle.

Alexandra is a member of the ICC’s Arbitration and ADR Committee.

Dispute Resolution, Band 5, 2025

Dispute Resolution: Next Generation Partner, 2022

International Arbitration, Portugal (2022)

Experience

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

Advising Luxembourg and Spanish pension funds and financial entities in several 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 ICC rules, 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.

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