José Pedro Anacoreta

Practice Areas

Employment and Labour

Career

José Pedro is a partner in the Employment and Labour practice. With more than 20 years’ professional experience, José Pedro has provided in-house consultancy services in large companies and to human resources departments. He has extensive experience in human resources process management, including labour relations, organisation of working hours, remuneration process management, international mobility, talent management, and corporate governance.

He has advised Portuguese and international clients on employment and labour law and social security matters.

José Pedro earned an international MBA from Católica Porto Business School in partnership with ESADE (Barcelona) and Pontífice Universidade Católica de São Paulo (Brazil) and completed a postgraduate course in employment law at the Faculty of Law of the University of Coimbra.

Before joining PLMJ, José Pedro was the legal director at Worten, he worked in the legal and HR area of Sonae and was a lawyer at the law firm Uría Menendez - Proença de Carvalho.

Professional Memberships

Portuguese Bar Association

Languages Spoken

Portuguese, English, and German

Experience

Director in the shared services department at Sonae, 2009-2020

Senior associate at the law firm Uría Menéndez, 2007-2008

Labour relations director at Sonae, 2003-2006

Lawyer at the law firm Vasconcelos, F. Sá Carneiro Fontes & Associados, 2000-2003