Luís Gonçalves da Silva

Luís Gonçalves da Silva is an Of Counsel and has been at Abreu Advogados since 2013, working primarily on labour law.

He focuses particularly on disciplinary procedures, terminations of employment contracts and collective bargaining law, especially in collective contracting. He participates in different collective bargaining negotiations aimed at achieving collective bargaining agreements.

He has extensive experience in advising companies in various sectors and employers’ associations and workers’ unions.

He has also performed several academic functions, having been a professor at the University of Lisbon’s Faculty of Law for around 22 years, with particular focus, in more recent years – since 2013 – on Labour Law I, II (undergraduate degree) and III (chair of the Masters Course in Law and Legal Practice). He is also a regular speaker at conferences and postgraduate courses, in particular at the law faculties of the University of Lisbon, the Catholic University of Portugal (Porto) and Universidade Nova, and also at the Labour Law Institute of the Lisbon Law Faculty (IDT), the Private Law Research Centre of the University of Lisbon’s Faculty of Law (CIDP), and National Congresses on Labour Law. He is also the executive coordinator of the IDT’s postgraduate course.