Deloitte Legal Telles promotes four partners
Deloitte Legal Telles has named four new partners, expanding its partner base to 37 within a firm of approximately 200 lawyers operating out of Lisbon and Porto. The promotions cover Corporate, M&A and Private Equity; Litigation, Arbitration and Restructuring; Employment and Social Security; and Criminal, Regulatory Offences and Compliance, and include lawyers Diogo Damião, Catarina Guedes de Carvalho, João Dotti de Carvalho, and Nuno Cardoso.
Diogo Damião becomes partner in the Corporate, M&A and Private Equity practice. With more than 20 years of experience, his work focuses on advising national and international clients across sectors on M&A and private equity transactions, corporate restructuring processes, and the structuring and implementation of joint ventures. He also has extensive experience negotiating commercial contracts, including in distribution and franchising, industrial equipment supply, procurement, logistics and transport.
Catarina Guedes de Carvalho becomes partner in the Litigation, Arbitration and Restructuring practice. With around two decades of experience, she covers legal advisory and contract management, restructuring and insolvency, debt recovery and dispute resolution, having taken part in complex domestic and cross-border proceedings advising companies in financial difficulty and creditors in sectors such as banking, real estate, automotive and aviation.
João Dotti de Carvalho takes up the role of partner in the Employment and Social Security practice. Over more than 20 years in the field, he has advised national and multinational clients on employment matters, including corporate restructuring processes, with particular experience in collective bargaining and employment litigation.
Nuno Cardoso becomes partner in the Criminal, Regulatory Offences and Compliance practice. With more than 20 years of experience, he has led this practice area at Deloitte Legal TELLES, advising on complex criminal proceedings with a focus on economic and financial criminal law. He also supports companies and management bodies in identifying and mitigating criminal, regulatory and reputational risks, and has extensive experience conducting internal investigations, implementing compliance programmes, and defining mechanisms to prevent corruption, money laundering and terrorist financing.
Growth strategy
According to Francisco Espregueira Mendes, managing partner of Deloitte Legal Telles, “these promotions represent much more than individual recognition, as they reflect the consistency of a project that invests in talent development and the construction of highly qualified and sophisticated teams, prepared to respond to our clients’ most demanding challenges. We continue to affirm a differentiated model, combining legal excellence with an integrated, business-oriented approach.”
The firm describes the appointments as a reflection of its sustained growth strategy and of continued investment in internal talent development.
