Miranda & Associados (Miranda) has announced the addition of two prominent Employment experts who had left the Lisbon office of Cuatrecasas, Gonçalves Pereira (Cuatrecasas) - Diogo Leote Nobre and Joana Vasconcelos.
Diogo Leote Nobre joins Miranda as a Partner, having been a senior member of the Cuatrecasas Labour team since 2008. At Miranda he will Co-Head the firm’s Employment practice alongside Nuno Gouveia. Diogo is widely recognised for the breadth of his experience in Portuguese and EU employment law and is ranked by the Legal 500 and Chambers and Partners for his expertise in commercial and contentious restructuring, employee transfers and collective dismissals. He is also well known for his sports law practice.
Joana Vasconcelos, a Professor of Law at the Portuguese Catholic University in Lisbon and a Consultant to Cuatrecasas’ Labour practice since 2012 is joining Miranda as Of-Counsel. Joana is a leading academic and previously an adviser to the Portuguese government on labour issues, including helping to draft the country’s Labour Code.
According to Diogo Xavier da Cunha, Miranda’s Managing Partner: "Labour matters are an increasingly strategic consideration for businesses as they react to pan-European economic opportunities and challenges. The addition of Diogo and Joana adds extra depth to our practice with their undoubted expertise in contractual, restructuring and contentious labour and employment issues. Our clients want our lawyers to translate often complex technical legal issues into clear commercial advice and in Diogo and Joana we certainly have this”.
Diogo Leote Nobre, 49, joins Miranda from Cuatrecasas where he was a partner and senior member of the Labour practice. Previously a partner of Saraiva e Sousa Gomes de Almeida & Associados (1997-2008) during 1998/1999 he was seconded to Portugal’s Ministry of Culture as an adviser on employment matters. He was also previously Legal Adviser to the Lisbon Metropolitan Orchestra’s Committee for Education and Culture (2002/2003) and Legal Advisor to the Municipality of Lisbon’s Department of Culture (2002 & 2006).
Diogo holds postgraduate qualifications in Cultural Management (2004), Intellectual Property (2006), Employment Law (2008) and Sports Law (2011).
Joana Vasconcelos, 49, is a Professor at the Lisbon School of Law of the Portuguese Catholic University, where she graduated and obtained her LLM and PhD. She chairs the Faculty’s undergraduate Labour Law course and is Vice-Coordinator of the postgraduate Advanced Program in Labour Law.
Previously a practising lawyer (1990-1996) she has also been Consultant to the Portuguese Council of Ministers (1996-2000) and helped prepare Portugal’s Draft Labour Code (2002). Joana had previously been a Consultant to Cuatrecasas’ Labour practice since 2012.