DLA Piper ABBC has the pleasure to announce its two new Partners in the Lisbon office: Patrícia Paias and Stéphanie Sá Silva.
Patrícia Paias has almost 20 years of experience in the Life Sciences sector, in renowned law firms in Portugal, and more recently in international leadership positions at Sandoz International and at Gilead Sciences. She returns to Portugal and to private practice as Partner at DLA Piper ABBC in Life Sciences and IPT, with a special focus on patent litigation.
Stéphanie Sá Silva has nearly 17 years of experience as lawyer at law firms as well as in-house lawyer, having dedicated large part of her career to the M&A, Corporate Law and Aviation practice areas. In this period, she has worked for acclaimed law firms in Portugal, and during the last years as Legal Director at TAP Air Portugal. She returns thus to the law firm legal practice as Partner at DLA Piper ABBC in Aviation and Corporate Law.
Nuno Azevedo Neves, Country Managing Partner of DLA Piper ABBC, underlines: “It is with great enthusiasm that we welcome Patrícia and Stéphanie. They both have a fantastic career in renowned law firms in Portugal and management experience in leading companies in the sectors they work in. Patrícia will strengthen our global Life Sciences practice, with a social focus on patent litigation. Her vast international experience will be an important asset to the assistance we provide to our global clients in this sector, enhancing the already consolidated capacity of DLA Piper in Portugal. For her part, Stéphanie will strengthen our Aviation and Corporate Law practice areas. DLA Piper has a leading position in Portugal in the Aviation sector, thus welcoming Stéphanie represents a natural step to cement our position as market leader.”
“Patrícia and Stéphanie embody our values, our vision, our strategy and, moreover, our ambition. Them becoming part of the firm will allow for a substantial growth of our offer in Portugal and in international terms for global clients in strategic sectors”, emphasizes Nuno Azevedo Neves.
For Patrícia Paias, “the opportunity to return to Portugal for a law firm such as DLA Piper ABBC is not be missed and it is with great enthusiasm that I will begin these functions after being more than 4 years in management positions in Germany and Ireland and almost two decades of practice in Life Sciences and Intellectual Property Law. It is a very exciting area, even more so taking into consideration the context of the last years, and DLA Piper ABBC is the right place to deepen this direction, apply my experience and continue making the difference for our clients”.
For Stéphanie Sá Silva, “it is with great enthusiasm that I become part of the DLA Piper ABBC team, a law firm of reference worldwide and in Portugal in the area of Aviation Law. Here I will have the opportunity to further develop the experience acquired in the last years, in particular in the air transport sector and in the M&A and Corporate Law practice area, with a permanent focus on providing a service of excellence to our clients, capable of meeting their needs”.
By such admission to partnership DLA Piper strengthens its team in Portugal, now with 17 Partners in a 115 people team.
