Mariana Portela da Silva joined VdA in 2024. She is an associate in the Oil&Gas practice where she has been actively involved in several transactions.
Law degree in the Faculty of Law of the Portuguese Catholic University - Porto.
Masters in Corporate Law and Business in the Faculty of Law of the Portuguese Catholic University – Porto.
Post-graduation in Arbitration Law, University of Lisbon, Faculty of Law (curricular program).
Before joining the firm she worked as an associate at MC Jurist Attorneys-at-Law (2021-2024).
Previously, she practised law at Portela da Silva Advogados (2019-2021), Mendes Ferreira & Associados (2018-2019) and Coelho Ribeiro & Associados - Timor-Leste (2017-2018).
In 2017 and 2018, she also worked as a secondee at the Investment and Export Promotion Agency, I.P. - TradeInvest Timor-Leste.
She began her traineeship with the President of the Portuguese Bar Association, Guilherme Figueiredo.
Admitted to the Portuguese Bar Association.
English Spanish, French.