Margarida Bernardino

Associate Lawyer | Lisbon

Practice Areas
Criminal, Sanctions and Compliance
Litigation and Arbitration
Languages
  • English
Contacts

Margarida Bernardino is a associate at Abreu Advogados since 2021, working mainly in the areas of criminal and administrative offences and civil litigation.

Margarida regularly intervenes in dispute resolution, advising several national and international clients, both in the pre-litigation and judicial phases, in criminal, administrative offences and civil matters.

She daily accompanies legal proceedings in all their procedural stages, frequently participating in court proceedings, including preliminary hearings, evidentiary debates and discussion and trial hearings.

She has been involved, on the defence side, in important administrative offence proceedings in the national panorama, in the field of capital markets and competition law.

Margarida is a member of ANJAP (National Association of Young Portuguese Lawyers).

Experience

Advice on criminal matters, focusing on Economic Criminal Law, Criminal Procedure and administrative offences.

Advising an international group on the preparation of the legal due diligence.

Advising on civil matters, particularly civil and contractual liability matters.

Advising in the areas of criminal, administrative offences and civil.

Monitoring of lawsuits in all procedural stages and frequent participation in trial hearings, preliminary hearings and similar diligences.

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Education

Centro de Investigação de Direito Privado

Postgraduate Diploma in Law Enforcement, Compliance and Corporate Responsibility (2022)

Faculdade de Direito da Universidade de Lisboa

Law Degree in Insolvency Law (2018)

Centro de Investigação de Direito Privado

Postgraduate degree In (2017)

Universidade Católica Portuguesa

Master of Laws (Forensic Master)

Knowledge

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