• 2017: Founding Partner at Azoia & Capelo, Law Firm.
• 2012 to 2017: Coordinator for Health Law and Labour Law, AAMM Law Firm, having initiated this project as founding partner.
• 2003 to 2012: Lawyer, Sociedade de Advogados PLMJ; became a partner in 2008, as part of the Labour Law and Health Law Department.
• Since 2011: Associate of the Centre for Biomedical Law, University of Coimbra School of Law.
• Since 2011: Postgraduate Professor, Pharmacy and Medical Law, Centre for Biomedical Law, University of Coimbra School of Law.
• 2008 to 2010: Director, Legal and Litigation Office of INFARMED – Autoridade Nacional do Medicamento e dos Produtos de Saúde, I.P..
• 2007: In-house Lawyer, Human Resources Directorate of Caixa Económica Montepio Geral.
• Since 2003: Professor, Advanced Management Programme for Pharmacists, School of Economic and Business Science, University Católica Portuguesa.

Publications and Conferences

• Publication of several papers in the press and in specialised magazines in his areas of activity.
• Conference on the new regime of formation of the price of medicines, 2012.
• Conferences on reduction of staff costs, held by the National Association of Pharmacies, in Lisbon, Oporto, Coimbra and Vilamoura, 2011.
• “Problemas Jurídicos da Autorização de Introdução no Mercado” – paper published in the magazine Lex Medicinae Revista Portuguesa de Direito da Saúde – Year 7, N.º 14, 2011.
• Speaker in the Seminar on “Civil, Criminal and Disciplinary Liability of the Pharmaceutical Industry and the Pharmacist”, about “Legal Problems of Marketing Authorisation” held by the Centre for Biomedical Law, University of Coimbra School of Law, April 16, 2010.

Education

• 2012: Post-graduate degree in Labour Law, Institute for Corporate and Labour Law, University of Coimbra School of Law.
• 2008: Post-graduate degree in Pharmacy and Medicine Law, Centre for Biomedical Law, University of Coimbra School of Law.
• 2001: Law degree, University of Lisbon School of Law.

Bar and Professional Associations

• Member of the Bar Association since 2003.
• Member of EELA – European Employment Lawyers Association.

Languages

• English
• French