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Law Degree, Catholic University of Lisbon Faculty of Law.
Post-Degree in Taxation, Instituto Superior de Gestão, in Lisbon.
PIL at Harvard Law School.

Joined Vieira de Almeida & Associados in 2001 and is currently the partner in charge of the Tax area of practice. In such capacity he has been involved in several transactions, in Portugal and abroad, mainly focused on the financing, acquisition and restructuring of national and multinational economic groups and corporations. He has also been actively providing domestic and international tax planning for major corporations, assisting groups in the definition of transfer pricing policies and documentation, resolving tax disputes with revenue authorities, providing advice in securitization transactions and estate planning.

He is President of the International Association of the Lawyers' Tax Commission, member of the International Fiscal Association, of the Portuguese Tax Association and of the Portuguese Tax Consultants Association.

He is the author of several articles published in national and international publications such as "Transfer Pricing in the Annual Tax and Accounting Return - Practical Issues", 2003; "Long-Awaited Property Tax Reform in Portugal", 2003; "Expatriation of Individuals: the Exit Tax in Portugal", 2004; "Transfer Pricing Under Portuguese Law", 2004; "Securitization of Credits - Some Thoughts and Proposals", 2004; "Madeira's Free Trade Zone Regime Extended until 2020", 2007; "New Rules on Combating Abusive Tax Planning, 2008", "Portugal promotes itself as gateway to world, 2010".

He was awarded the Iberian Lawyer's "40 under forty" award for the best young lawyers in Iberia (2007).

Before joining the firm he worked as a tax consultant in the Tax Division of Price Waterhouse Portugal and as a senior consultant in Andersen Portugal's Tax Division.

Admitted to the Portuguese Bar Association, by whom he was recognized as a specialist lawyer in Tax Law

Languages: Portuguese, English, French, Spanish