João Paulo Menezes Falcão

Lawyer

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Practice Areas: Commercial and Corporate Law; Banking and Financial Law; Civil and Commercial Contracts; Pharmaceutical Law; Medicine Law; Litigation.

Academic Qualifications

Law Degree (area of Corporate Legal Sciences), Law Faculty, Catholic University of Lisbon, 1982.
Courses in Analysis and Interpretation of Balance Sheets, Catholic University of Lisbon, 1994 and 1996.
Post- Graduate Studies in Securities Law, Law Faculty, University of Lisbon, 2000.
Post- Graduate Studies in Pharmaceutical and Medicament Law, Law Faculty, University of Coimbra, 2002.
Post- Graduate Studies in Corporate Legal Sciences, Law Faculty, University of Lisbon, 2012.
Post- Graduate Studies in Corporate Legal Sciences, Law Faculty, University of Lisbon, 2015.

Professional Experience

Practises law at MF_AC - Advogados e Consultores since September 2021
Lawyer since 1984.
Founding partner of the law firms J.P. Menezes Falcão, Gouveia Fernandes, Fraústo da Silva & Associados – Sociedade de Advogados and Carlos de Menezes Falcão, João Paulo Menezes Falcão & Filipe Fraústo da Silva – Sociedade de Advogados.
Partner at the law firm ACE (Alvim Cortes, Esperança, Vaz Osório, J.P. Menezes Falcão - Sociedade de Advogados)
Partner at the law firm MF&AC - Advogados (Cortes, J. P. Menezes Falcão & Associados, Sociedade de Advogados SP, RL)
Member of Bar Association examining panels for trainee lawyers – Lisbon Trainee District Centre of the Bar Association.
Assistant and lecturer in meetings of international associations of lawyers.
Vice- President of INTERLEGAL (May 2015 - May 2017).
President of INTERLEGAL (May 2017 - May 2019 ).

Publications

The Mandatory Public Offer of Acquisition, Securities Law Journal, Securities Institute, vol. III, 2001.

Professional Associations

Portuguese Bar Association (admitted in 1984).
Securities Institute, Lisbon University Law School (2001-present).
INTERLEGAL - founding member.

MF_AC is a proud member of Interlegal an international network of law firms represented in about fifty countries spread across five continents. This international association adopts the strategic approach of providing its members and their respective clients with first-class legal services anywhere in the world where they conduct their businesses. Founded in 1987 as a European Economic Interest Grouping (EEIG), Interlegal is considered as one of the first worldwide networks of law firms. MF_AC’s lawyer João Paulo Menezes Falcão was President of Interlegal between May 2017 to May 2019, as well as Vice-president between May 2015 to May 2017.

MF_AC has a partnership with the renowned law firm CMT ADV.

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