Pedro De Albuquerque

Background

De Albuquerque, Pedro was born on December 9, 1962 in Lisbon, Portugal.

Education

Fribourg (Switzerland), Madrid, Cambridge and Lisbon. U.C.P. (Graduate in Louisiana West Post-Graduate in Commercial and Corporate Law), Madrid, Cambridge and Lisbon.

U.C.P. (Graduate in Louisiana West

Post-Graduate in Commercial and Corporate Law) Post-Graduate in Commercial and Corporate Law). Spoken languages: English, Spanish, French, Italian and Portuguese.

Career

Worked at Albuquerque & Associates (Lisbon) specializing in General and International Law Practice, Banking, Corporation, Taxation, European Economic Community, Maritime, Aviation, Insurance, Foreign Investment, Trademark and Copyright, Labour, Commercial, Civil, Administrative, Property, Criminal, Public, Private, European and Administrative Law. Admitted to the bar, 1987, Portugal. Recipient: Scholarship, German Academic Exchange Service (Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst), 1995.

Scholarship, Kalouste Gulbenkian Foundation, 1996.

Author: "Contracts in Family Law," 1986. "Bankruptcy by Ceasement of Payments," 1989.

"Delay of Prescription in Contractual Liability," 1989. "The Portuguese Law of Competition (on the Decree Law 482/83)," 1989.

"Essential Effects of Purchase and Sale" (in the collective work "Law of Obligations," Volume III, by Professor Doctor Menezes Cordeiro), 2ă Education, 1990.

"The Preemptive Right of Shareholders to Subscribe to New Shares," 1993. "The Liability of Companies for the Guarantee of Debits of Third Parties," 1996. Company-Author: "Attacking Foreign Assets (Portuguese Chapter)" by Dennis Campbell, Associated Press of London, 1993.

"Code of the Special Proceeding of the Recovering of Companies and Bankruptcy," with Professor Teixeira de Sousa, 1993.

Assistant Professor, Law University of Lisbon, 1988—. Member: Portuguese Bar Association.

The Association of Fellows and Legal Scholars of the Center for International Legal Studies, Salzburg, Austria (Honorary Member). The firm is one of the oldest and of more tradition in Portugal.

The origin of its practice is situated in 1922 when the predecessor individual lawyers started their legal activity.

The two Senior Partners are Senior Professors of Law (Catedráticos). The firm concentrates on business law, in all its main areas, from commercial contracts to finance, banking, insurance, et cetera and has a broad range of clients among the largest companies world-wide, as well as some of the most important Portuguese Groups.

Achievements

• Pedro De Albuquerque has been listed as a reputable lawyer by Martindale-Hubbell.

Membership

Member: Portuguese Bar Association. The Association of Fellows and Legal Scholars of the Center for International Legal Studies, Salzburg, Austria (Honorary Member).