José-Miguel Júdice and Manuel Lopes Rocha recognised as lawyers of the year in Arbitration and Intellectual Property Law

PLMJ – Law Firm has increased the number of lawyers recommended by the US directory Best Lawyers to 46, in various areas of legal practice in Portugal. Partners Nuno Guedes Vaz, from PLMJ Employment and Labour, Rita Alarcão Júdice, from PLMJ Real Estate, and Rita Samoreno Gomes, from PLMJ Litigation, together with Manuel da Silva Gomes, a senior associate from PLMJ Environment, all appear in the directory for the first time.

The list of best lawyers of the year includes PLMJ partners: José-Miguel Júdice, partner and head of PLMJ Arbitration, and Manuel Lopes Rocha, partner and head of PLMJ Intellectual Property.

The Best Lawyers list for 2017 includes the following PLMJ lawyers:

Luís Sáragga Leal (Corporate Law, Mergers and Acquisitions Law), José-Miguel Júdice (Arbitration and Mediation, International Arbitration, Litigation), Pedro Sáragga Leal (Real Estate Law), Nuno Líbano Monteiro (Litigation, Insolvency and Reorganisation Law), Abel Mesquita (Labour and Employment Law), Manuel Santos Vítor (Corporate Law, Mergers and Acquisitions Law, Energy Law, Natural Resources Law), Luís Miguel Pais Antunes (Telecommunications Law, Media Law, Technology Law), Pedro Faria (Litigation), Nuno Morais Sarmento (Litigation, Insolvency and Reorganisation Law, Arbitration and Mediation), Manuel Lopes Rocha (Intellectual Property Law), João Medeiros (Litigation, Criminal Defence), Manuel Cavaleiro Brandão (Litigation), Sofia Gomes da Costa (Real Estate Law), Ricardo Oliveira (Competition / Antitrust Law), Vasco de Ataíde Marques (Corporate Law), Pedro Metello de Nápoles (Arbitration and Mediation, Litigation), Ana Teresa Pulido (Intellectual Property Law), Tiago Cortes (Labour and Employment Law), Paulo Farinha Alves (Litigation, Criminal Defence), João Magalhães Ramalho (Tax Law), Manuela Tavares Morais (Litigation), Tomás Pessanha (Corporate Law), Tiago Mendonça de Castro (Real Estate Law), Nuno Cunha Barnabé (Tax Law), Nuno Guedes Vaz (Labour and Employment Law), Pedro Melo (Public Law), Tiago Duarte (Arbitration, Public Law, Administrative Law), Miguel Urbano (Construction Law, Energy Law), Hugo Rosa Ferreira (Banking Law, Finance Law), Serena Cabrita Neto (Tax Law), Rita Alarcão Júdice (Real Estate Law), Daniel Reis (Telecommunications Law, Technology Law), Rui Alves Pereira (Litigation), Duarte Schmidt Lino (Capital Markets Law, Finance Law), Miguel C. Reis (Tax Law), Filipa Cotta (Litigation), Rita Samoreno Gomes (Litigation), Inês Pinto da Costa (Finance Law, Project Finance), Sara Estima Martins (Competition / Antitrust Law) ,Bruno Ferreira (Capital Markets Law, Finance Law, Corporate Law), Diogo Perestrelo (Corporate Law, Mergers and Acquisitions Law, Energy Law, Natural Resources Law, Private Equity Law), Cláudia Varela (Labour and Employment Law), Ana Oliveira Rocha (Energy Law), Raquel Azevedo (Capital Markets Law), Manuel da Silva Gomes (Environmental Law) and Filipa Cansado Carvalho (Arbitration and Mediation).

This US ranking recognises the best lawyers in various countries, based on the opinions and votes of their peers. This year, for the first time, it also recognises the best law firms in the different practice areas.

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