Rogério Alves

Registered with the Portuguese Bar Association;

Graduated in Law from the Faculty of Human Sciences of Universidade Católica Portuguesa - Escola de Lisboa, in 1984.

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Lawyer for over 30 years, he has a consolidated career and is both 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;

Known for his strong and consistent civic participation; in particular, the defense of the fundamental and civil rights of citizens, defense of the ethical-social concept of law as a means to achieve justice and safeguarding rights, and balanced advice based on ethics, embodied in law;

Lawyer linked to the various areas of litigation, with an intense professional activity focusing mainly in the field of Criminal Law, especially in the area of Economic Criminal Law and financial offenses, as well as contractual and corporate litigation;

Interventions in national and international arbitrations, also as an arbitrator;

Founding and managing partner of Rogério Alves & Associados — Sociedade de Advogados, R.L., and also responsible for the Litigation and Arbitration area, since 2013;

Senator of the UIBA (Unión Iberoamericana de Colegios de Abogados), between 2011 and 2020;

Of-counsel at ABBC — Azevedo Neves, Benjamim Mendes, Carvalho & Associados — Sociedade de Advogados, R.L., between 2010 and 2013;

He was awarded the Grand Cross of Merit by the General Council of Spanish Law, and gave the closing conference of the respective congress ceremony, which focused on the Presumption of Innocence, in December 2007;

Awarded by the International Union of Lawyers for his fight for human rights and defense of the prerogatives of law, in June 2007;

Of-counsel at PMGBR - Law Firm, between 2006 and 2010;

He was awarded the Grand Inconfidence Medal by the State of Minas Gerais, Brazil, by Governor Aécio Neves, in 2006;

Visiting Professor, teaching Forensic Rhetoric at the Law School of Universidade Católica Portuguesa - Escola de Lisboa, since 2005;

President of the Portuguese Bar Association, from 2005 to 2007;

President of the Lisbon District Council of the Portuguese Bar Association, between 2002 and 2004;

Member of the Lisbon District Council of the Portuguese Bar Association, between 1993 and 1995;

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

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

Chapter concerning Portugal in the International Comparative Legal Guide to Business Crime, published by the Global Legal Group, since 2015;

Chapter concerning Portugal in the International Comparative Legal Guide to Litigation & Dispute Resolution, published by the Global Legal Group, since 2015;

Chapter concerning Portugal from The Asset Tracing and Recovery Review, published by Law Business Research, since 2014;

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

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

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 Universidade Autónoma de Lisboa, between 2007-2008;

Author of the article entitled The Just Measure of Secrecy of Justice, on the Annualia magazine, between 2006-2007;

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), in 2006;

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, July 2005.

Guest speaker at the XXIII National Conference of Brazilian Advocacy, São Paulo, Brazil, November 2017;

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, November 2016;

Guest speaker at the sixtieth Congress of the UIA - International Lawyers Union - held in Budapest, where he gave a paper on Compliance, October 2016;

Guest speaker at the IV Annual Arbitration Conference, Luanda, sponsored by the Angolan Bar Association, December 2015.

Honorary Member of ABRACRIM — Brazilian Association of Criminal Lawyers, since 2016;

Member of the International Academy of Financial Crime Litigators.