José Luis has been a lawyer since 2003 and joined Pragma Advogados in 2021.

He has practised in a wide range of professional environments. He worked for Telles Advogados for several years, where he specialised in commercial and corporate law, taking part in several company or group restructuring operations (mergers, spin-offs, transformations, and other forms of corporate reorganisation), and advised multiple national and foreign clients in the acquisition of all or part of the capital stock of companies. During this period, he also had the opportunity to advise clients on public-private partnerships in the area of hospital construction, and was involved in arbitration proceedings in the area of civil and corporate law. He was also a member of a group focusing specifically on supporting start-ups, particularly in investment rounds and contractual arrangements.

Since 2017, José Luis has been a company lawyer, part of the NOS Legal Department, where with the team he runs, he provides support to different areas within the group. His daily work particularly focuses on putting into practice his knowledge in the areas of privacy and personal data protection (GDPR), commercial and corporate law, labour law, as well as other areas.

• Graduated from the Portuguese Catholic University Law School in 2001.
• Postgraduate Studies in EU Labour Law from the Catholic University Law School, completed in 2002.
• Postgraduate degree in Corporate Legal Sciences, due to equivalence of attending the academic year for the Master’s Degree in Corporate Legal Sciences at the University of Coimbra Law School in the 2002-2003 academic year.
• Master’s Degree from the University of Coimbra Law School, with a thesis on “De facto administration: workers’ duty of obedience” in 2008.
• Postgraduate Studies in Accounting for Lawyers at the Lisbon Law School Institute of Economic, Financial and Tax Law in the 2015 academic year.
• Attended the Course on the new General Data Protection Regulation, at the Legal Institute for Communication of the University of Coimbra Law School in 2018