Diogo Pessoa

Doctorate in Law from the Faculdade de Direito da Universidade Católica Portuguesa, in 2024;

Visiting Researcher onto Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, from September 2022 to June 2023;

Visiting Researcher at the Max-Planck-Institut für Steuerrecht undöffentliche Finanzen, Munich, Germany, from February 2022 to April 2022 and in August 2024;

Visiting Researcher at the Max-Planck-Institut für ausländisches undinternationales Privatrecht, Hamburg, Germany, from October 2021 to January 2022;

Master's degree in Law from the Faculdade de Direito da Universidade Católica Portuguesa, in 2018;

Post-Graduation in Securities Law, by the IVM-FDL, in 2016;

Post-Graduation in Financial and Tax Management of Companies, by APEU-FEUC, in 2015;

Law degree from the Faculty of Law of the University of Coimbra, in 2015.

Associate Lawyer at Rogério Alves & Associados - Sociedade de Advogados RL, since September 2025;

Assistant Professor at the Lisbon School of the Faculty of Law of the Portuguese Catholic University, since September 2025, teaching since January 2017, to date as a guest assistant. She teaches and/or taught the following courses: Real Rights, Commercial Law, Commercial Companies, Fundamentals of Civil Law and Personal Law - all law degree -; Capitalization and Business Financing - Master in Law and Management -, and Economic and Business Law - at the Católica Lisbon School of Business and Economics;

Associate at CS' Associados, from September to December 2023;

Associate at Uría Menéndez — Proença de Carvalho, from August 2018 to April 2019;

Trainee Attorney at Uría Menéndez — Proença de Carvalho, from September 2016 to August 2018.

Equity in Corporate Law, UCP Editora, 2025;

Of Preferred Shares without Voting Rights, UCP Editora, 2021;

Commentary on the Civil Code of the UCP — Volume of the Law of Things (Co-author), UCP Editora, 2021;

The Effects of Laws and Regulations and of the Shareholders' Discretion in the Classification of Financial Instruments — A Preliminary Analysis (working paper), at https://papers.ssrn.com/abstract=4755614;

Insolvency in the European Union— The relevance of the balance sheet, European Company Law, Vol. 22, Issue 1, 2025;

The Accounting Treatment of Time-Deferred Cash Inputs, Some Questions, Reviewers, and Auditors, No. 103, 2023;

The Concept of Net Assets for the Purposes of the Serious Loss of Capital Framework as Set Forth in the European Capital Maintenance Rules, European Company Law, Vol. 20, Issue 3, 2023;

(Still about) preferred shares without voting rights — a very brief note with another reason for legislative intervention, Revisors and Auditors, No. 100, 2023;

CNC Technical Guideline No. 4 - Very Short Note, Reviewers and Auditors, No. 97, 2022;

The New Portuguese Framework of Participatory Loans — Some Questions and Perplexities (working paper), at https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4042047, 2022;

Non-voting Preferred Shares in Portugal: A General Overview, European Company Law, Vol. 18, Issue 5, 2021;

The operation to constitution/reinforcement of the legal reserve with transitory losses: a very brief note on the order of the transactions to be carried out, in co-authorship, Company Law in Review, Year 13, Vol. 25, 2021;

The Constitution of Groups by Total Domain: From the Commercial Companies Code to the Madeira Free Trade Zone, Company Law in Review, Year 12, Vol. 24, 2020;

Preferred shares without voting rights - the critical aspects of a strict imperative-regime, in the Cadernos do Mercado de Securities Mobiliário, No. 65, 2020;

The optional corporate acquisition — Some additional considerations regarding the acquisition aimed at full dominance in the Commercial Companies Code, Company Law in Review, Year 11, Vol. 22, 2019;

The regrouping of shares (reverse stock split): first notes on the regime established by Decree-Law No. 63-A/2016 of September 23, co-authored by Revised Companies Law, Year 8, Vol. 16, 2016;

The Credit Institutions Resolution: The National Regime (working paper), co-authored at https://governancelab.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/A.