Tânia Bessa

Senior Associate Lawyer | Lisbon

Practice Areas
Litigation and Arbitration
Languages
  • English
  • French
  • Spanish
  • Italian
Contacts

Tânia Bessa is a senior associate who has been with Abreu Advogados since 2025, primarily focusing on debt collection and insolvency litigation, with a particular expertise in credit recovery for banks, financial institutions, and service providers.

She has extensive experience in coordinating and managing diversified portfolios in the area of credit recovery for large national institutions.

She has provided legal support in matters relating to credit, rental, and financial leasing agreements.

In insolvency matters, she handles various proceedings, representing clients in claims for debts owed to them, as well as in the liquidation of assets.

She has been involved in several credit assignment proceedings.

Experience

Debt collection litigation, with particular focus on credit recovery for banks, financial credit institutions, service providers and telecommunications companies;

Monitoring of insolvency proceedings, mainly in relation to claims for debts owed by clients, as well as in the liquidation of assets;

Legal support in various credit assignment proceedings;

Legal support in relation to the terms and conditions of credit, rental and financial leasing agreements;

Education

Faculdade de Direito da Universidade Lusíada de Lisboa

Law Degree (2000)

Faculdade de Direito da Universidade Católica Portuguesa

Postgraduate Degree in Legal and Forensic Sciences (2008)