Best Lawyers distinguishes 58 lawyers in 32 Areas:

The  Lawyer of The Year award for Intellectual Property Law was awarded to César Bessa Monteiro, Jr.

The 32 distinguished Areas were:

• Administrative Law
• Arbitration and Mediation
• Asset Finance Law
• Aviation Law
• Banking and Finance Law
• Competition / Antitrust Law
• Corporate Governance and Compliance Practice
• Corporate Law
• Criminal Defense
• Energy Law
• Environmental Law
• Family Business Law
• Family Law
• Information Technology Law
• Insolvency and Reorganization Law
• Insurance Law
• Intellectual Property Law
• International Arbitration
• Labor and Employment Law
• Land Use and Zoning Law
• Litigation
• Media Law
• Mergers and Acquisitions Law
• Natural Resources Law
• Private Equity Law
• Public Law
• Real Estate Law
• Sports Law
• Tax Law
• Technology Law
• Telecommunications Law
• Transportation Law

In 2021 Legal 500, distinguished Abreu Advogados in the following 17 Areas and 2 Jurisdictions:

• Angola
• Banking and Finance
• Competition & EU Law
• Corporate and M&A
• Data Privacy and Data Protection
• Dispute Resolution
• Employment
• Energy and Natural
• Fraud and White-Collar Crime
• Insolvency and Restructuring
• Intellectual Property
• Mozambique
• Porto – General Business Law
• Projects
• Public Law
• Real Estate
• Tax
• TMT
• Transport

In 2021, Chambers and Partners distinguished Abreu Advogados in 14 Areas in 3 different jurisdictions:

• Angola
• Banking and Finance
• Competition & EU Law
• Corporate and M&A
• Dispute Resolution
• Employment
• Energy and Natural
• Intellectual Property
• Mozambique
• Porto – General Business Law
• Private Wealth
• Public Law
• Real Estate
• Tax
• Timor-Leste
• TMT
• Transport: Shipping

Abreu was also shortlisted as “Regional Law Firm of the year: Lusophone Africa”, in the Chambers Africa Awards 2021.

ITR has distinguished 3 tax areas:

• General corporate tax
• Tax Controversy
• Private Client

Individual recognition:

• Alexandra Courela
• Joana Maldonado Reis
• Maria Inês Assis
• Mariana Gouveia de Oliveira
• Miguel Teixeira de Abreu
• Nuno Cunha Barnabé
• Susana A. Azevedo

In 2020, World Trademark Review distinguished:

• Ana Panão – Silver Band
• António Andrade – Silver Band
• César Bessa Monteiro – Luminaries
• César Bessa Monteiro, Jr. – Silver Band
• Manuel Durães Rocha – Silver Band
• Ricardo Henriques – Silver Band

The following Areas were distinguished:

• Patent Contentious
• Trade Mark Contentious
• Trade Mark Prosecution
• Copyright

Individual recognition:

• Ricardo Henriques
• César Bessa Monteiro,jr
• António Andrade

IFLR1000 distinguished Abreu Advogados in 5 Areas:

• M&A
• Project finance
• Restructuring and insolvency
• Banking
• Capital markets: debt and equity

Abre Advogados was distinguished as Tier 1 in 2021, by Media Law International.

In 2020, o Who’s Who Legal distinguished:

• Life Sciences: Patent Litigation / Patents – António Andrade 
• Data: Data Privacy and Protection / Data: Information Technology / Life Sciences: Transactional – Ricardo Henriques 
• Labour & Employment – Carmo Sousa Machado
• Energy – Manuel Santos Vitor