The firm strengthens its activity in Portugal’s second largest city after integrating Teixeira & Guimarães, a firm specialized in technology, banking and digital business.

Andersen Iberia opens an office in the city of Oporto. With this site, the firm headed by José Vicente Morote completes its presence in Portugal and also incorporates the firm Teixeira & Guimarães, specialized in banking, new technologies and digital business. Following this integration, Andersen Iberia has a team of 60 professionals in Portugal, distributed between its Lisbon and Oporto offices.

Led by João Guimarães and Marlene Teixeira, who join Andersen in Portugal as Partner and Local Partner, Teixeira & Guimarães has a team of six people and an important international client base that includes companies in the United States, Israel, Canada and Brazil. João Guimarães and Marlene Teixeira are dual qualified as lawyers in Portugal and Brazil.

João de Sousa Guimarães holds a law degree from Universidade Lusíada and advanced studies in management from Católica Porto Business School. He has also completed advanced studies in Data Protection at the Maastricht Law School. The new partner of Andersen Iberia specializes in the areas of privacy, security and data protection, corporate law, credit recovery and technology.

Marlene de Sousa Teixeira holds a law degree from the Universidade Portucalense and a postgraduate degree in Banking, Corporate, Financial and Securities Law, as well as in Negotiation, Mediation and Dispute Resolution from the Law School of the Universidade Católica Portuguesa. She specializes in banking law, credit recovery, finance, insurance and insolvency.

José Vicente Morote, Managing Partner of Andersen Iberia, states that ‘having an office in Oporto, the second most important business center in Portugal, is an essential step for the Andersen Iberia project, to be able to offer our clients a complete peninsular territorial coverage’. He also highlights his satisfaction for the incorporation of João Guimarães and Marlene Teixeira, ‘two professionals with whom we share values, business vision and the ambition to reach a leading position in Portugal and throughout the Iberian Peninsula’.

José Mota Soares, Partner of Andersen Iberia and Head of the firm in Portugal, highlights ‘the enormous synergies and opportunities offered by having specialized teams in the two main cities of the country, enriching our value proposition and national coverage for our clients’. He adds: ‘We are very pleased to have João, Marlene and all their team, and we are convinced that their contribution will be very important to continue on our path to become a leading law firm in the Portuguese market’.