VdA is highlighted in the Leaders League ranking, which every year distinguishes the best law firms and the best lawyers in the Portuguese market by practice area, this year awarding VdA with 28 nominations.

Leaders League ranked VdA as one of the best law firms in six different practices: Banking & Finance, Bankruptcy, Restructuring & Insolvency, Corporate Tax, Private Equity, Corporate/M&A, and Real Estate Transactions.

In the Leading Lawyers category, VdA's distinguished lawyers are in "Banking & Finance" the partners Benedita Aires, Hugo Moredo Santos, Paula Gomes Freire, Pedro Cassiano Santos, Pedro Simões Coelho and Tiago Correia Moreira; in "Corporate M&A" the partners Cláudia da Cruz Almeida, Helena Vaz Pinto, João Vieira de Almeida (Managing Partner), Jorge Bleck, Paulo Olavo Cunha and Paulo Trindade Costa; in "Corporate Tax" the Partners, Joaquim Pedro Lampreia, Matthieu Le Roux, Samuel Fernandes de Almeida, Tiago Marreiros Moreira, and Senior Adviser Conceição Gamito.
In the category of Excellent, the distinguished lawyers are: in the area of "Bankruptcy, Restructuring & Insolvency", the partners Cláudia da Cruz Almeida, Filipa Cotta, Frederico Gonçalves Pereira and Paulo Olavo Cunha; in "Private Equity" the partners Cláudia da Cruz Almeida, Helena Vaz Pinto, João Vieira de Almeida, Jorge Bleck and Paulo Trindade Costa; and in "Real Estate Transactions" partners Miguel Marques dos Santos Pedro Ferreirinha.