Ricardo Branco

Of Counsel | Lisbon

Ricardo Branco is an Of Counsel and has been at Abreu Advogados since 2015, working primarily in the areas of Public and Environmental Law, specifically in applied Constitutional Law, General Administrative Law, Administrative Disputes, Waste Law, Urban Planning Law, Natural Resources and Energy Law.

He carries out his activity by drafting legal opinions in the referred areas, as well as supporting the drafting of legislation and regulations, and representing clients before administrative courts and the constitutional court, where his experience as a Constitutional Law Professor since 2002, as well as, since 2017, of Administrative Litigation Law, Water and Waste Law, Natural Resources and Renewable Energy Law and Urban Planning Law, namely at the graduate, master and PhD levels in Law, is determinant.

He also has vast experience in supporting the design of legislative and regulatory instruments for the Governments of several Portuguese Speaking African Countries.

Prior to joining Abreu Advogados, he provided legal advice on legislative procedures and general Constitutional Law to successive Secretaries of State of the Presidency of the Council of Ministers as well as to the Minister of Science, Technology and Higher Education and the Deputy Minister of Regional Development of different Portuguese Governments.

Public Law, Portugal (2022)

Public Law, Portugal (2022)

Work Experience

Regulatory support for the operation of all non-hazardous waste landfills operating in Portugal, including the renewal of the respective licenses;

Preparation of legal opinions and advice to managing entities of specific waste flows and to managing entities of urban waste systems;

Legal advice to managing entities of municipal water supply systems;

Drafting of strategies and procedural documents in the field of extra-contractual civil liability of public entities for urbanistic offences;

Drafting of legislation and regulatory instruments, particularly for the Governments of Portuguese-speaking African Countries;

Conducting strategies for the application of Constitutional Law in disputes of various kinds;

Drafting of appeals to the Constitutional Court;

Legal advice on the design of the strategy for regularization of the legal situation of municipal social housing parks;

Steering the strategy of the municipal litigation of the distribution of funds from the environmental fund in the area of transport;

Supervision of procedural strategies in general administrative litigation.

Academic Background

Faculdade de Direito da Universidade de Lisboa

Law Degree (2002)

Faculdade de Direito da Universidade de Lisboa

Master’s in law in Legal and Political Sciences (2008)

Faculdade de Direito da Universidade de Lisboa

Doctorate degree in Legal and Political Sciences (2017)