Miguel Mendes Pereira
Europe Guide 2024
Band 3 : Competition/European Law
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About
Provided by Miguel Mendes Pereira
Practice Areas
Competition/European Law
Career
Miguel Mendes Pereira's work focuses on EU and Competition law.
He has over 25 years of experience handling antitrust, merger control and State aid matters. Miguel also advises on the EU four freedoms and often represents clients (including the Portuguese Republic) before the EU’s top court in Luxembourg.
He previously worked at the European Commission, the General Court of the EU and the Portuguese Competition Authority. Miguel was also a lecturer at the Law Faculty of the Lisbon University between 1992 and 2012.
Professional Memberships
Portuguese Bar Association
Founding Member of Portuguese Circle of Competition Lawyers, CAPDC
Member of IBA, International Bar Association
Personal
Languages: English, French, German, Italian and Spanish.
Chambers Review
Europe
Miguel Mendes Pereira of DLA Piper ABBC has a strong contentious competition law practice, representing clients in behavioural investigations, as well as appeals against fines and follow-on damages actions. He also assists clients with obtaining competition law clearance for proposed mergers.
Strengths
Provided by Chambers
"He is an excellent lawyer with an empathetic personality. He is very strong in strategy and implementation."
"He is an excellent lawyer with an empathetic personality. He is very strong in strategy and implementation."
