Marina Costa Cabral
Marina Costa Cabral joined VdA in 2018. She is a Senior Associate at the Employment & Benefits’ area of practice where she has been involved in a vast number of transactions, labour restructurings and court cases, in several jurisdictions (Portugal, Angola, Cape Verde, Mozambique, Sao Tome and Principe and Timor-Leste).
Marina provides assistance to clients of various sectors, such as, sports, pharmaceutical, banking, automobile, retail, energy, oil and gas, on their day-to-day activities, as well as on complex matters, including transfers of employees and other cumbersome M&A deals.
During 2018 and 2019, she was the Firm’s local head of the Timor-Leste office. In such capacity she was responsible for the Firm’s business development and advised the main stakeholders in the energy, financial and telecommunications sectors and in several areas of Law (corporate, labour and social security, banking, tax, litigation, oil and gas, mining and public).
In 2024, Marina was seconded to Jeantet’s Employment Practice, in Paris.
Law degree University of Lisbon, Faculty of Law.
Master’s degree in Employment and Companies’ Law, ISCTE.
Post-graduation in Employment Law, University of Lisbon, Faculty of Law.
Intensive Course in Social Security, University of Lisbon, Faculty of Law.
Intensive Course in Work Accidents, University of Lisbon, Faculty of Law.
Before joining the firm, she worked at Miranda & Associados (2015/2017), as an Associate of the Labour and Benefits Practice Group and also at M&A - Albergaria Silva & Associados, as a Trainee Lawyer, focusing her practice on Labour and Social Security Law.
Admitted to the Portuguese Bar Association.
Admitted to the Timor-Leste Bar Association (Conselho de Gestão e Disciplina).
English, French and Spanish.