Background
Marques Mendes, Mário was born in 1954 in Águeda, Portugal.
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Mário Marques Mendes
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University of Lisbon Law School (Law Degree, 1976). College of Europe, Bruges, Belgium (Certificate of Advanced European Studies, European Commission Law, 1980). University of Michigan Law School, Ann Arbor, Michigan-United States of America (Master of Laws, 1984).
Spoken languages: Portuguese, English, French and Spanish.
Career
Worked at Marques Mendes (Lisbon) specializing in General Practice, Banking and Finance, Civil, Corporate, Commercial and Business Laws, European Commission Law, Competition Law, Antitrust Law, Mergers and Acquisitions, Agency and Distribution Law, Intellectual/Industrial Property Law, International Trade and Public Procurement Laws, Labour Law, Entertainment and Insurance Laws, Foreign Investment and Bankruptcy/Insolvency. Admitted to the bar, 1976, Portugal. Author: "Antitrust in a World of Interrelated Economies: The Interplay Between Antitrust and Trade Policies in the United States. and the European Economic Community," Editions de l"Université de Bruxelles, 1991.
"Trade Measures, Competition Policy and the Consumer-Comment," in Trade Laws of the European Community and the United States in a Comparative Perspective, P. Demaret, J. Bourgeois, I. Van Bael, Eds., Story-Scientia, 1992.
"Rights of Private Parties-Comment," in Subsidies and International TradeA European Perspective, J. Bourgeois, Education Kluwer, 1991. "Predatory PricesA Decision of the Competition Council of October 26, 1988," in O Direito, Ano 122 °, III-IV, 1990.
"Anti-Dumping and State Aids Regulation in Portugal," National report presented at the 1986 FIDE Congress, Paris, September 1986. Book Review of "Courts and Free MarketsPerspectives from the United States and Europe," edited by Terrance Sandalow and Eric Stein, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1982, 2 volumes, in Assuntos Europeus, volunteer
3 - n°1. February 1984, Lisbon.
Lecturer: International Trade Law, Center for European Studies, Portuguese Catholic University. Recipient of Fulbright Scholarship (1983-1984), William West. Cook Fellowship/University of Michigan Law School (1983-1984). European Commission Commission Grant (1981-1982).
Portuguese Ministry of Foreign Affairs Scholarship (1980-1981).
Member: Portuguese Bar Association (Vice-President, Lisbon Council, 1996-1998). Portuguese Association of European Law.
European Association of Lawyers. The firm"s practice covers a wide spectrum of fields of business and commercial law, with special emphasis on corporate, banking/finance, taxation, competition, intellectual property, labor and real estate matters.
The firm is also particularly well equipped, due to the specialized academic and professional background of some of its members, to handle all areas of European Commission and international trade laws, notably competition, intellectual property, antidumping, State aids and public procurement matters.
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Membership
Member: Portuguese Bar Association (Vice-President, Lisbon Council, 1996-1998). Portuguese Association of European Law. European Association of Lawyers.
