Bio
Maria João Dias is a partner at JPAB - José Pedro Aguiar-Branco Advogados and head of the firm's Corporate and M&A department.
She began her career at Uría Menéndez - Proença de Carvalho, where she practised for over a decade. She then took on the role of Head of Legal Corporate | M&A in the Sonae Capital group.
Maria João is experienced in corporate and commercial matters and has solid experience in company acquisition processes, both in terms of due diligence and contract negotiation.
She is an arbitrator at the Concórdia Centre for Conciliation and Mediation of Conflicts.
Relevant Experience
- Arbitrator at the Conciliation and Mediation Centre - Concórdia (since 2022)
- Arbitrator at the Lisbon Maritime Arbitration Centre (CAM), (since 2022)
Professional Associations
- Member of APA - Portuguese Arbitration Association (since 2022)
Academic and Professional Training
- Doctoral programme in Law - Legal and Business Sciences - at the Faculty of Law of the University of Coimbra (since October 2019)
- Master's in Law from the Portuguese Catholic University School of Law (2013)
- Postgraduate in Transport Law from the Institute of Business and Labour Law of the Faculty of Law of the University of Coimbra (2013)
- Postgraduate in Company Law from the Institute of Company and Labour Law of the Faculty of Law of the University of Coimbra (2011)
- Law degree from the Faculty of Law of the University of Porto (2008)
Languages
- English
News and Publications
- The identification of shareholders in the Shareholders' Rights Directive II (April 2020, Direito das Sociedades em Revista, no. 23; Author)
- Annotation to Article 8 - Association between Cooperatives and Other Collective Persons and Article 111 - Nullity of Transformation (February 2019, Código Cooperativo Anotado, Almedina; Author)
- Portugal. The Transport Finance Law Review (2016, 2017 and 2018, Law Business Research; Co-author)
- Madeira International Shipping Register (MAR). Some Notes (2016, Actualidad Jurídica Uría Menéndez, no. 44; Author)
- The Representative Function of the Bill of Lading (May 2015, Temas de Direito dos Transportes, Volume III, Almedina; Author)
- The Reduction of Share Capital with the Allocation of Assets in Kind to Shareholders. Corporate and Tax Aspects (2014, Actualidad Jurídica Uría Menéndez, no. 37; Co-author)
- International Road Haulage Contract (CMR). The Removal of Limits on Compensation: Fault Equated to Malice Under the Law of the Forum (January 2014, ANTP Yearbook; Co-author)
- Volunteer Fire Brigades, Humanitarian Fire Brigade Associations and Freedom of Association (2014, Cooperativismo e Economía Social, no. 3, University of Vigo; Co-author)
- The Association of a Cooperative with Other Collective Persons and the Covert Transformation of a Cooperative into a Commercial Company: Analysis of Articles 8 and 80 of the Cooperative Code (2012, Jurisprudência Cooperativa Comentada, INCM; Co-author)
- Replacement of a Director Appointed by a Legal Person (2011, Actualidad Jurídica Uría Menéndez, no. 28; Co-author)
- A Substituição de Administradores (2011, Miscelâneas do Instituto de Direito das Empresas e do Trabalho, no. 7, Almedina; Author)
- O Quadro Legal da Responsabilidade dos Transitários (2010, APAT Magazine, no. 62, March-April 2010; Co-author)
- Quorum for Approval of the Insolvency Plan (Annotation to Article 212 of the CIRE) (2010, Actualidad Jurídica Uría Menéndez, no. 26; Co-author)
- National Moot Court on Constitutional Law (2006, Revista da Faculdade de Direito da Universidade do Porto, Ano III, Coimbra Editora; Co-author)
