Carmo Sousa Machado

Carmo Sousa Machado works mainly on labour and civil matters, including litigation. She was also responsible for setting up the Employment Law practice at Abreu Advogados, an area to which she has devoted herself almost exclusively for over thirty years.

Carmo served as Chairman of the Board of Directors of Abreu Advogados from April 2017 to April 2021, having been Managing Partner from 2004-2007.

She is currently Immediate Past Chair and Chair of the Former Chairs Committee of the global association of independent law firms Multilaw, having been Chair of this network between 2019 and 2023. Between 2012 and 2018 she was Vice-Chair of the EMEA regional Committee of the same association. During the three-year period 2020 – 2022, she was Vice-President of the General Council of the Portuguese Bar Association.

Carmo is involved in matters related to company acquisitions, sales, mergers, and restructuring, always from a labor / human resources perspective (both upstream in carrying out due diligence processes and in implementing these operations). She also has experience in the transfer of establishments and related matters, in the hiring and termination of employment contracts, especially at the senior management level, in the conduct of collective redundancy, job termination, and disciplinary proceedings, as well as in the monitoring of the respective pre-litigation and labour litigation processes.

The advice provided is transversal to various industries of activity and has a special focus on the areas of health, transport, construction, services, retail, and communications, having participated in some of the most important restructuring operations of multinational groups that have taken place in Portugal.

Carmo Sousa Machado joined Abreu Advogados in 1996 and became a Partner in 1999.