Miguel Mendes Pereira talks to Jornal de Negócios

Miguel Mendes Pereira, partner at VdA's Competition & EU practice talked to Jornal de Negócios newspaper about the proposition for a new European Directive which aims to prevent the use of the financial system for money laundering and financing terrorism, in the scope of the Bar Association's declaration criticizing the proposition.

VdA's partner "agrees with some of the points made by the bar, namely that it is important to stress a lawyer's duty of professional secrecy as one of the guarantees of a Democratic Rule of Law State.