Ricardo Reigada Pereira

Practice Areas

Real Estate & Tax

Career

Ricardo is a partner and co-head in the Real Estate and Tourism practice. He has spent much of his career representing real estate investors and developers in the acquisition and sale of real estate portfolios, sale and leaseback transactions, construction and marketing of logistics parks, office buildings, shopping centres and retail parks, as well as pan-European real estate transactions and IP planning.

He holds a degree in law from the Faculty of Law of the University of Lisbon and a PhD in international taxation from the same faculty.

Ricardo is also a lecturer at the Faculty of Law of the University of Lisbon, the author of academic articles and a regular speaker at Portuguese and international conferences.

Prior to joining PLMJ, Ricardo was a managing partner at RRP Advogados and, before that, an associate heading the tax team at Linklaters LLP in Lisbon.

Publications

2017: Portugal - Secil (C-464/14) and Commission v Portugal (C-503/14), Sep 1, 2018 in CJEU - Recent Developments in Direct Taxation 2017 (Linde Verlag)

2016: O Conceito de Estabelecimento Estável, Jan 2016, CEJ - Centro de Estudos Judiciários (in the context of an education program for judges)

2015: The EC Interest Savings Directive (co-authored with Professor Ana Paula Dourado), IBFD

2011: A Indução da Procura Através da Promoção da Chance Terapêutica - A problemática dos ganhos de chance promovidos pela recomendação médica em tratamentos sem efeito discernível nos pacientes, in Economic Analysis of Law Review (Brasil) and Estudos em Homenagem ao Professor Saldanha Sanches, Coimbra Editora (Portugal)

2010: Uma história mal contada (acerca dos esquemas de planeamento fiscal agressivo) in Expresso Newspaper, co-authored with Fernando Araújo

2010: Entre Tântalo e Sísifo: um objectivo tão próximo mas (inexplicavelmente) ainda longe – Comentário às Conclusões da Advogada-Geral Juliane Kokott no caso C-105/08 Comissão contra República Portuguesa” (co-authored with Fernando Araújo), in Revista de Finanças Públicas e Direito Fiscal - Ano III - Número 2 – Verão, Almedina

2009: “Portugal-Reasoned Opinions on Exit Taxation and Withholding Tax on Pension Funds, Practical European Tax Strategies

2008: “EC Cross-Border Insolvency Regulation Tax Horizon – Watch the Present, It Is Not What It Was!”, European Taxation

2007: Pending cases filed by Portuguese courts, ECJ – Recent Developments in Direct Taxation (co-authored with Professor Ana Paula Dourado), ed. by Michael Lang, Josef Schuch and Claus Staringer, Linde Verlag

2007: Portugal (new tax legislation), EC Tax Review, Issue 2, Kluwer

2006: The Taxation of Interest Savings Income in the European Capital Market, ed. by Dietmar Aigner, Lars Gläser and Michael Tumpel, Linde Verlag

Professional Memberships

Admitted to the Portuguese Bar Association, 2006

Languages Spoken

Portuguese, English, Spanish and French

Education