Ana Perestrelo de Oliveira

Ana Perestrelo de Oliveira joined VdA in 2024. Of Counsel of the Corporate and M&A practice. 

Ana has a degree in Law and a doctorate in Law from the University of Lisbon. She is a tenured Associate Professor at the University of Lisbon Faculty of Law, where she has lectured on the subjects of Commercial Law, Company Law, Securities Law, General Theory of Civil Law, and Contract Law, at both undergraduate and master’s level. She is President of the School Council and member of the Scientific Council of the Faculty of Law of the University of Lisbon. She is also Vice-President and researcher at the Centro de Investigação de Direito Privado (Research Centre for Private Law), where she coordinates several postgraduate and intensive courses, including the postgraduate courses in Corporate Governance and Corporate Finance.

Guest Professor at the Faculty of Law of Católica University, lecturing in the master’s programme on Business Law.

Member of the Editorial Board of the Revista de Direito das Sociedades (Company Law Journal) and of the Revista de Direito Financeiro e dos Mercados de Capitais (Financial and Capital Markets Law Journal), member of the Executive Committee of the annotated Código das Sociedades Comerciais (Commercial Companies Code), and former member of the Coordinating Committee of Revista Concorrência & Regulação (Competition & Regulation Journal).

Former member of the Steering Committee of the Resolution Fund – Bank of Portugal.

Member of the list of arbitrators of the Commercial Arbitration Centre of the Lisbon Commercial Association and of the Commercial Arbitration Institute of the Porto Commercial Association.

Member of several work groups responsible for preparing legislative projects in the fields of economic, corporate and financial law, in Portugal, Guinea, Cape Verde and Angola.

Author of several articles and monographs and speaker at conferences and postgraduate courses, notably on matters related to commercial, corporate, securities and economic law, as well as arbitration.

Lawyer, legal consultant, and arbitrator, also holding positions of responsibility in companies.

Before joining VdA, Ana was a partner at the law firm Eduardo Paz Ferreira & Associados.

Law degree, University of Lisbon Faculty of Law.

PhD in Legal Sciences, University of Lisbon Faculty of Law.

Habilitation (Agregação) in Law, University of Lisbon Faculty of Law.

Tenured Associate Professor of the Faculty of Law of the University of Lisbon, where she has lectured on the subjects of Commercial Law, Company Law, Securities Law, General Theory of Civil Law, and Contract Law, at both undergraduate and master’s level.

President of the School Council and member of the Scientific Council of the Faculty of Law of the University of Lisbon.

Vice-President and researcher at the Centro de Investigação de Direito Privado (Research Centre for Private Law), where she coordinates several postgraduate and intensive courses, including the postgraduate courses in Corporate Governance and Corporate Finance.

Guest Professor at the Faculty of Law of Católica University, lecturing in the master’s programme on Business Law.

Before joining VdA, Ana was a partner at the law firm Eduardo Paz Ferreira & Associados.

Author or co-author of several publications on topics of her expertise, notably monographs and manuals, annotations to articles of the Portuguese Civil Code and Commercial Companies Code, and articles for scientific journals and collective works.

Published books include:

  • Lições e casos de Direito das sociedades, 1st ed., revised and updated, AAFDL, Lisbon, 2024.
  • Manual de corporate finance, Almedina, Coimbra, 3rd ed., 2024.
  • Smart contracts, risco e codificação da desvinculação ou modificação negocial: os falsos dilemas da inter-relação lei-código nos contratos empresariais, Almedina, Coimbra, 2023.
  • Desvinculação programada do contrato, Almedina, Coimbra, 2021.
  • Incumprimento resolutório: uma introdução, Almedina, Coimbra, 2019, co-authored with Madalena Perestrelo de Oliveira.
  • FinTech – Tecnologia financeira, Vol. I: Desafios da tecnologia financeira, 2nd ed., Almedina, Coimbra, 2019 and FinTech II – Novos estudos sobre tecnologia financeira, Almedina, Coimbra, 2019, both co-organised with António Menezes Cordeiro and Diogo Pereira Duarte.
  • Informação nos grupos de sociedades, Almedina, Coimbra, 2018.
  • Manual de governo das sociedades, Almedina, Coimbra, 2017.
  • Manual de grupos de sociedadesAlmedina, Coimbra, 2016.
  • Arbitragem de litígios com entes públicos, 2nd ed., Almedina, Coimbra, 2015.
  • Grupos de sociedades e deveres de lealdade. Por um critério unitário de solução do conflito do grupo, Almedina, Coimbra, 2012.
  • A responsabilidade civil dos administradores nas sociedades em relação de grupo, Almedina, Coimbra, 2007.
  • Causalidade e imputação na responsabilidade civil ambiental, Almedina, Coimbra, 2007.

Annotations include:

  • Articles 1010 to 1021, in Código Civil Comentado (coordinated by António Menezes Cordeiro), Vol. III, Almedina, Coimbra, 2024.
  • Articles 481 to 508 of the Commercial Companies Code, in Código das Sociedades Comerciais Anotado (coordinated by António Menezes Cordeiro), currently in its 5th ed., Almedina, Coimbra, 2022.
  • Articles 432 to 436 and 801, in Novo coronavirus e crise contractual. Anotação ao Código Civil (coordinated by Catarina Monteiro Pires), Lisbon, 2020.

Articles include, among others:

  • “Sustainable corporate finance”, in A Treatise on Environmental Law, Vol. III, https://lisbonpubliclaw.pt/en/publicacoes/tratado-de-direito-do-ambiente-vol-iii-3/  
  • “Cláusulas de irresolubilidade e cláusulas de exclusão da responsabilidade: ainda sobre a gestão contratual do risco e a proibição de renúncia antecipada a direitos”,in Estudos em Homenagem ao Professor Doutor António Pinto Monteiro, Boletim da Faculdade de Direito da Universidade de Coimbra, 2024.
  • “Parâmetros jurídicos da contrapartida justa na aquisição potestativa societária”, in VII Congresso Direito das Sociedades em Revista, Almedina,Coimbra, 2023.
  • “Papel e competência da assembleia geral da sociedade anónima no Código das Sociedades Comerciais”, Revista de Direito das Sociedades, XIV, 2, 2022, pp. 171-195.
  • “O novo regime da insolvência e as cláusulas de cessação do contrato com fundamento em insolvência”, Revista de Direito Comercial, 2022, https://www.revistadedireitocomercial.com/o-novo-regime-da-insolvencia-e-as-clausulas-de-cessacao-do-contrato-com-fundamento-em-insolvencia.
  • “Estratégias de saída no capital de risco”, in Cadernos do Mercado de Valores Mobiliários sobre os 20 anos do Código dos Valores Mobiliários, Coimbra, 2021, pp. 823-854.
  • “Responsabilidade, imputação de participações sociais e domínio total indireto”,in Estudos em honra de João Soares da Silva, Coimbra, 2021, pp. 451-484.
  • “Cláusulas de força maior e limites da autonomia privada”,RFDUL 61, 2020, pp. 65-79.
  • “Resolução parcial, dever de renegociar e modificação contratual em contexto de Covid-19”, Revista de Direito Civil, V, 3-4, 2020, pp. 541-559, co-authored with Madalena Perestrelo de Oliveira.

Admitted to the Portuguese Bar Association.

English, French.

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