Andersen opens new office in Oporto

Andersen Iberia opens an office in the city of Porto. With this location, the firm led by José Vicente Morote completes its presence in Portugal and also incorporates the firm Teixeira & Guimarães, specialized in banking, new technologies and digital business. After this integration, Andersen Iberia has in Portugal a team of 60 professionals distributed between its offices in Lisbon and Oporto.

José Vicente Morote, managing partner of Andersen Iberia, states that “having an office in Oporto, the second most important business center in Portugal, is an essential step for the Andersen Iberia project, to be able to offer our clients a complete peninsular territorial coverage”. He also highlights his satisfaction for the incorporation of João Guimarães and Marlene Teixeira, “two professionals with whom we share values, business vision and the ambition to achieve a leading position in Portugal and throughout the Iberian Peninsula”.

Pictured: José Mota, partner of Andersen Iberia and director of Dispatch in Portugal; Marlene de Sousa Teixeira, local partner; João de Sousa Guimarães, partner; and José Vicente Morote, partner director of Andersen Iberia.

Teixeira & Guimarães

Led by João Guimarães and Marlene Teixeira, who join Andersen in Portugal as Partner and Local Partner, Teixeira & Guimarães has a team of six people and an important international client base that includes companies in the United States, Israel, Canada and Brazil. Both are dual-qualified as lawyers in Portugal and Brazil.

João Guimarães

João de Sousa Guimarães holds a law degree from Universidade Lusíada and advanced studies in management from Católica Porto Business School. He has also completed advanced studies in Data Protection at the Maastricht Law School. The new partner of Andersen Iberia specializes in the areas of privacy, security and data protection; corporate law, credit recovery and technology.

Marlene Teixeira

Marlene de Sousa Teixeira holds a law degree from Universidade Portucalense and a postgraduate degree in Banking, Corporate, Financial and Securities Law, as well as in Negotiation, Mediation and Dispute Resolution from the Law School of Universidade Católica Portuguesa. She specializes in banking law, credit recovery, finance, insurance and insolvency.

José Mota Soares, partner of Andersen Iberia and Director of the firm in Portugal, highlights “the enormous synergies and opportunities offered by having specialized teams in the two main cities of the country, enriching our value proposition and national coverage for our clients”. He adds: “We are very pleased to have João, Marlene and all their team, and we are convinced that their contribution will be very important to continue on our path to become a leading law firm in the Portuguese market”.

Julia Gil

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