New hire boosts SRS Legal’s criminal and regulatory team

SRS Legal has hired Rafaela Oliveira as an associate for its new criminal and regulatory law department. She joins from Abreu Advogados. With experience in legal advisory and a law degree from the Faculty of Law of the University of Coimbra, Rafaela Oliveira has built her career in the areas of criminal law, regulatory law, and compliance. Between April and September 2023, as part of a secondment program, she joined the legal department of the Divino Espírito Santo Hospital in Ponta Delgada. She began her career at Sousa Machado, Ferreira da Costa & Associados, and later joined Abreu.

She has a diverse background in further legal training, including the Misdemeanour Law Course at the Faculty of Law of the University of Coimbra and the Milestones of EU Criminal Law for Defence Lawyers program by the Academy of European Law, held in Barcelona.

“The creation of the criminal and regulatory law department at SRS Legal has been a great success, and we’re pleased to have Rafaela Oliveira join us to help meet the growing client demand and the increasingly complex matters we are handling. Rafaela is a skilled and proven professional, well-regarded in the market”, highlights Paulo de Sá e Cunha, head of the department.

“We’re very pleased that, just about three months after launching this new department, we’re already in a position to expand the team. Paulo de Sá e Cunha and Cátia Muchacho have been doing an excellent job, and Rafaela Oliveira will certainly continue along that path”, say César Sá Esteves and Octávio Castelo Paulo, managing partners at SRS Legal.