Mário Esteves de Oliveira and Pedro Cassiano Santos are referred by Diário Económico newspaper as the best lawyers in the public and finance practice areas, respectively.

Diário Económico’s supplement Quem é Quem nas Sociedades de Advogados’s nominations are based on the American directory Bestlawyers choices.

Further to the nomination, Pedro Cassiano Santos granted an interview to the newspaper in which he states that “the uncertainty of public accounts is essentially due to the absolute incapacity to reduce public expenditure”, and this is the cause for the interest rate rise on the national sovereign debt, writes the publication.

Mário Esteves de Oliveira, in his turn, was interviewed on public law. Asked on which would be the most urgent measure to be taken regarding public law, the lawyer states that, in his opinion, it is urgent “to reorganize and clarify our laws. Our legal system is chaotic”.