Maria Dulce Soares

Of Counsel, Of Counsel | Oporto

Practice Areas
Tax
Languages
  • English
  • Spanish
Contacts

Maria Dulce Soares is an Of Counsel at Abreu Advogados since 2025 and is a member of its Advisory Board. Her main areas of expertise are tax advice and tax litigation.

She has extensive experience in conducting litigation proceedings and cases, particularly in matters related to corporate income tax, tax benefits, EU law violations, special contributions and VAT, advising national and international economic groups.

She is an arbitrator at Administrative Arbitration Centre (CAAD) since 2011 and teaches tax and litigation in advanced training courses.

She was Partner of Abreu Advogados between 2007 and 2025.

General Business Law: Porto (Tax), Band 2 (2022, 2024, 2025)

Experience

Advising on several tax litigation proceedings and cases to multinational groups in the context of tax recuperation with held in Portugal in violation of European Union Law in the insurance and energy distribution sectors.

Advising a multinational company on fiscal matters related to corporate income tax, VAT and municipal property tax in the context of one of the largest hydroelectric projects carried out in Europe.

Associations

Academic

Porto University

Economics degree from Porto University, Faculty of Law (1982)

Lusíada University

Law degree from Lusíada University, Faculty of Law (1997)

Institute of Economic and European Penal Law

Postgraduate degree in European Economic Penal Law From the Institute of Economic and European Penal Law  at Coimbra University Faculty of Law (1999)