MFA Legal & Tech promotes Rui Costa and Inês Almeida to partners
MFA Legal & Tech has strenghtened its criminal and administrative offences practice through the internal progression of four lawyers. Rui Costa Pereira and Inês Almeida Costa have been promoted to contract partners, assuming greater leadership roles in the firm and in handling complex cases. Raquel Goldschmidt and Madalena Dias Parca have been promoted to senior associates.
Samuel Fernandes de Almeida, managing partner at MFA Legal & Tech, stated that the promotions reflect recognition of the excellent work developed by the four lawyers. He emphasized that the firm’s greatest asset is its people, and that these promotions demonstrate MFA Legal & Tech’s commitment to recognizing and valuing young talent who have distinguished themselves through their performance, commitment and technical excellence.
Fernandes de Almeida added that the valorization of senior talent will constitute a strategic axis in the firm’s project, contributing to the development of new areas of specialization and increasing intersection of practice areas with technology.
The promoted lawyers
Costa Pereira and Almeida Costa were part of MFA Legal & Tech’s founding team. Costa Pereira has experience in foreign jurisdictions of Portuguese-speaking countries, including Angola, Mozambique, Cape Verde and East Timor. Throughout his career he has focused predominantly on criminal litigation, providing services to clients across various sectors. Before joining MFA Legal & Tech, he worked at Vieira de Almeida e Associados and PLMJ. He holds a law degree, a master’s in Criminal Legal Sciences and a postgraduate degree in Digital Evidence in Criminal Proceedings from the Faculty of Law of the University of Lisbon.
Almeida Costa develops her professional activity in both legal consulting and dispute resolution. Before joining the team, she worked at Vieira de Almeida e Associados and PLMJ. She also served as a member of the Portuguese Ombudsman’s Office (2022 to 2023), where she was especially dedicated to constitutionality issues and matters related to the Portuguese prison system. She holds a law degree and a master’s in Criminal Legal Sciences from the Faculty of Law of the University of Coimbra.
Goldschmidt joined MFA Legal & Tech in December 2023. Before joining the firm, she completed her entire professional career in the Criminal, Administrative Offences and Compliance Department at Morais Leitão. She graduated in Law from the Faculty of Law of the University of Lisbon, where she subsequently completed a postgraduate degree in Law Enforcement, Compliance and Criminal Law in banking, financial and economic activities, and a master’s in Law and Legal Science (specializing in Criminal Law and Criminal Sciences).
Dias Parca moved from Vieira de Almeida e Associados to MFA Legal & Tech in October 2024. Her professional career has been primarily focused on criminal law and administrative offences law, having had the opportunity to intervene in high-profile criminal cases of high complexity and frequently collaborate in administrative offence proceedings in matters of competition law, online gaming and health advertising practices. She holds a law degree from the Faculty of Law of the Catholic University of Portugal – Lisbon School and a postgraduate degree in “Separation of powers in the democratic rule of law and criminal procedure reform” from the Centre for Research in Criminal Law and Criminal Sciences of the Faculty of Law of the University of Lisbon.
