Inês Sequeira Mendes
Partner | Lisbon
- Practice Areas
- Competition, Regulatory and EU
- Corporate and M&A
- Industries
- Health, Life Sciences & Pharmaceuticals
- Education
- Shopping Centres & Retail Parks
- Fashion, Luxury & Lifestyle
- Banking & Financial Services
- Automotive
- Agrofood
- Desks
- Timor-Leste Desk
- Languages
- English
- French
- Contacts
Inês Sequeira Mendes is Managing Partner at Abreu Advogados.
Partner since 2012, she works primarily in competition law and in close cooperation with investment structuring and the development of the commercial activities of companies.
She focuses particularly on notification processes for complex concentration operations (including multi-jurisdictional notifications) as well as processes related to agreements and restrictive practices and process related to sectorial regulations, appearing before the Competition Authority, European Commission, Sectorial Regulating Entities and courts.
She has also advised on the implementation and improvement compliance programmes related to competition law both at a structuring ,auditing and training stages.
Additionally, she has extensive experience in advising on corporate acquisition, mergers and reorganization operations and has monitored many of the foremost projects to take place in Portugal and Timor.
Her experience encompasses several sectors but with a special focus on healthcare, energy, transportation, retail, distribution and aeronautics.
She is the Chairman of the National Committee of UIA – Union Internationale des Avocats for 2020-2021.
Experience
Education
Portuguese Catholic University
Law degree from the Portuguese Catholic University Faculty of Law - Lisbon (1996)
Kings College
Master of Arts – Graduate Degree European Competition Law from Kings College (London – 2012)
Kings College
Postgraduate degree in European Competition Law from Kings College (London, 2009-2010)
University of Lisbon
Postgraduate degree in Competition and Regulatory Law from IDEFF, University of Lisbon, Faculty of Law (2007)
Portuguese Catholic University
Advanced Programme in Regulation and Competition Economics from the Portuguese Catholic University Faculty of Economic and Corporate Sciences (2004)