Rogério Alves

Law degree, in 1984, from the Faculty of Human Sciences of the Portuguese Catholic University.

Registered with the Portuguese Bar Association.

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A lawyer for over 30 years, he has a consolidated career and a profile recognized and respected by the general public.

Throughout his career, he has established himself as an independent and renowned lawyer, intervening in the great causes of society and law, building a national and international reputation.

It is noted for its strong and consistent civic participation, in particular in the defense of the fundamental rights and civil rights of citizens, in the defense of the ethical-social concept of law as a means of achieving justice and safeguarding rights, and as an instance of balance and advice based on ethics, embodied in law.

A lawyer linked to the various areas of litigation, he has carried out an intense professional activity focusing mainly on the field of Criminal Law, especially in the area of Economic Criminal Law and that of financial offenses. It also carries out an intense activity in the field of contractual and corporate litigation.

He intervenes in national and international arbitrations, also as an arbitrator.

Lawyer in individual practice, since 1987, working with particular emphasis on the areas of Commercial Law, Corporate Law, Real Estate Law and Litigation Law.

He served on the Lisbon District Council of the Portuguese Bar Association, as a member, between 1993 and 1995.

He served on the Lisbon District Council of the Portuguese Bar Association, as President, between 2002 and 2004.

He was President of the Portuguese Bar Association from 2005 to 2007.

He joined the firm PMGBR - Law Firm, as an of-counsel, between 2006 and 2010.

He joined ABBC — Azevedo Neves, Benjamim Mendes, Carvalho & Associados — Sociedade de Advogados, R.L., as an of-counsel, between 2010 and 2013.

He is a Guest Professor at the Faculty of Law of the Portuguese Catholic University of Forensic Rhetoric, where he has been teaching since 2005.

He has been a founding partner and managing partner of Rogério Alves & Associados — Sociedade de Advogados, R.L. since 2013, and is also responsible for the Litigation and Arbitration area of the Company.

He was a senator of the UIBA (Unión Iberoamericana de Colegios de Abogados) between 2011 and 2020.

He was awarded the State of Minas Gerais, Brazil, in 2006, with the Medal of the Great Inconfidência Mineira, by Governor Aécio Neves.

He was awarded the Grand Cross of Merit by the General Council of Spanish Lawyers in December 2007, and at the time, he gave the closing lecture of the ceremony of the respective congress, which focused on the Presumption of Innocence.

He was awarded by the International Bar Association in June 2007 for his fight for human rights and for the defense of the prerogatives of law.

2016 May.
Author of an article for Lawyer Monthly magazine, about “White Collar Crime in Portugal”;

2016
Co-author of the work related to the V Congress of Criminal Law and Criminal Procedure - Memories, coordinated by Manuel Monteiro Guedes Valente, Editora Almedina, 2016;

2015 - Present
Chapter concerning Portugal in the “International Comparative Legal Guide to Business Crime”, published by the Glogal Legal Group;

2015 - Present
Chapter concerning Portugal in the “International Comparative Legal Guide to Litigation & Dispute Resolution”, published by the Glogal Legal Group;

2014 - Present
Chapter concerning Portugal from “The Asset Tracing and Recovery Review”, published by Law Business Research;

2010
Author of the text published in the 6th edition of the collective work called Carter-Ruck on Libel and Privacy, relating to Portuguese law;

2007 Aug.
Author of the article entitled The Judicial Map and the New Paths of Portuguese Justice, published in the Julgar Magazine No. 2 of May;

2007 - 2008
Author of the article entitled Penal Reform: A Brief Journey to Substantive and Procedural Criminal Law, published in the Journal of Economics and Law, Vol. XII, no. 2, of the Autonomous University of Lisbon;

2006 - 2007
Author of the article entitled The Just Measure of Secrecy of Justice in the journal Annualia;

2006
Author of the article “Searches and Seizures in Law Firms - reflections on the respective legal regime”, published by the Journal of the Faculty of Law of the University of Porto (Year III);

2005 Jul.
Author of the article “Criminal Procedure - a perspective for reform” for the Politeia Magazine - Journal of the Higher Institute of Police Sciences and Internal Security, Year II - No. 2.

2017 Nov.
He was a guest speaker at the XXIII National Conference of Brazilian Advocacy, São Paulo, Brazil.

2016 Nov.
Participated, on behalf of Portugal, in the EAW - Rights Report, prepared by the CCBE - Council of Bars and Law Societies of Europe, and the European Lawyers Foundation;

2016 Oct.
He was a guest speaker at the sixtieth Congress of the UIA - International Lawyers Union - held in Budapest, where he gave a paper on Compliance;

2015 Dec.
He was a guest speaker at the IV Annual Arbitration Conference, Luanda, sponsored by the Angolan Bar Association.

2016 Dec. - Present
Honorary Member of ABRACRIM — Brazilian Association of Criminal Lawyers;

Member of the International Academy of Financial Crime Litigators.