Rita Pereira de Abreu
Rita Pereira de Abreu joined VdA in 2016. She is a Senior Associate in the Tax practice, where she devotes most of her practice to tax planning of financial transactions and products and tax litigation matters, where she has been involved in several cases involving the breach of European Union Law and other tax disputes before judicial and arbitral courts.
Law degree at Catholic University of Lisbon, Faculty of Law.
Masters in Tax Law at Catholic University of Lisbon, Faculty of Law.
Lecturer in the Postgraduate program organized by ISCTE Executive Education in Financial Markets: Portfolio Creation and Management.
Author and co-author of several publications on topics of her expertise, including:
- “Decisões europeias podem baixar o custo de capital das empresas portuguesas”, Advocatus (2025)
- “Social Bonds: Financing a Sustainable Future”, WhatNext.Law (co-author with Sara Santos Dias and Teresa Resende Neiva) (2025)
- “New tax regime for loan funds – A milestone for Portuguese financial sector”, WTS Global Financial Services (co-author with Francisco Cabral Matos) (2024)
- “Portugal: One step closer to nil taxation on corporate funding”, International Tax Review (co-author with Francisco Cabral Matos) (2024)
- “The VAT exemption applicable for management companies: An opportunity for businesses?” WTS Global Financial Services (co-author with Francisco Cabral Matos and Hugo Alves Leonardo) (2024)
- “ECJ rules that marketing of shares in common funds falls within the scope of the Council Directive concerning indirect taxes on the raising of capital (Case C-656/21)”, WTS Global Financial Services (co-author with Francisco Cabral Matos) (2023)
- “O Imposto do Selo na vida de um pacote de garantias: constituição, reforço, substituição e extensão”, published in Revista Electrónica de Fiscalidade da AFP (2022), Ano IV – Número 1 (co-author with Francisco Cabral Matos) (2022)
- “A closer look at exit taxes on accrued capital gains in Portugal”, International Tax Review (co-author with Samuel Fernandes de Almeida) (2021)
- “Having a PE in Portugal: New rules, new challenges ahead”, International Tax Review (co-author with Francisco Cabral Matos) (2021)
- “A tributação dos desportistas e das entidades não desportivas não residentes: síntese e reflexões sobre o tratamento dos rendimentos decorrentes da cedência dos direitos de exploração dos direitos de imagem”, published in Compêndio de Direito do Desporto, Gestlegal, 2021, 1.ª Edição (co-author with Samuel Fernandes de Almeida)
- “A look at the new anti-hybrid mismatch arrangements rules in Portugal”, International Tax Review (co-author with Ricardo Seabra Moura) (2020)
- “A chegada ao acórdão Brisal e o regresso à legislação nacional”, published in Revista Electrónica da Fiscalidade da AFP (2020) Ano II – Número 1 (co-author with Joaquim Pedro Lampreia)
- “Portugal implements ATAD”, International Tax Review (co-author with Francisco Cabral Matos) (2019)
Admitted to the Portuguese Bar Association.
English.