Maria Inês Carapeta
Associate Lawyer • Lisbon
Maria Inês Carapeta is an associate attorney and has been with Abreu Advogados since 2024, specialising in Litigation & Arbitration.
She specialises in litigation before Portuguese courts, including applications for preliminary injunctions, in civil and enforcement proceedings, commercial and corporate litigation, and insolvency and corporate restructuring.
Her work includes drafting pleadings, such as initial complaints, answers, appeals (at all admissible levels), and other legal documents.
She also has experience advising airlines in administrative and judicial proceedings, in which she assists in responding to fines imposed by administrative authorities.
She actively participates in the judicial and extrajudicial monitoring of domestic and multinational companies, combining dispute prevention with dispute resolution.
She also has experience in various matters related to construction, contracting, and real estate; economic crimes; retail and distribution; the textile industry; and cryptoassets.
She is also a certified conflict mediator, with a primary focus on commercial mediation.
Experience
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Advising domestic and multinational companies and individual clients on civil liability litigation (contractual and non-contractual).
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Advising companies and individual clients on debt recovery and restructuring;
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Monitoring enforcement proceedings;
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Advising airlines in administrative and judicial proceedings;
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Assisting companies and individual clients in criminal proceedings and injunctions of an economic nature and related to cryptoassets;
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Providing legal counsel in the pre-litigation phase;
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Representing individual clients in judicial and family law proceedings, among other related legal matters.
Education
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Faculdade de Direito da Universidade Nova de Lisboa
Law Degree (2022)
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Faculdade de Direito da Universidade Nova de Lisboa
Master’s Degree in Litigation and Arbitration (2024)
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Faculdade de Direito da Universidade Católica Portuguesa
Postgraduate Program in Contract Litigation, Arbitration, and Mediation (attending)
Associations
