• Civil
• Commercial and Company Law
• Banking and Finance
• Energy
• Aviation
• Real Estate, Construction and Planning
• Tourism
• Intelectual Property and ITs
• Litigation and Arbitration

• Law Degree, Faculty of Law, University of Lisbon - 1971
• Post-graduate studies in European Law – University of Exeter - 1986
• EDP Top Management Programme INSEAD, Fontainebleau - 2004

1972-1973   
Legal Assistant - DGTT, Ministry of Transport and Communications.
Lawyer at Carlos Mourisca, Advogado, in Lisbon.
 
1974-1977
Head of Legal Services - EEM- Empresa de Electricidade da Madeira, Funchal, Madeira.

1977-1979    
Head of Legal Services - José Ribeiro, Indústrias e Comércio, SARL.
Own legal practice in Lisbon.

1979      
Assistant to the Secretary of State for Transport and Communications.

1979-1998  
Lawyer at Electricidade de Portugal EP, EDP

1986-1991  
Director of Empresa Industrial do Freixo,

1991-2011 
Legal counsel to the Ministry of Finance on privatizations.

1993-2011
Founding partner of Lebre Sá Carvalho & Associados, Sociedade de Advogados.

1997/2000
Company Secretary and lawyer at EDP Electricidade de Portugal, SA.

1998-2008   
Head of Legal at  EDP Electricidade de Portugal, SA.

2002-2009 
Chairman of the Legal Group at EURELECTRIC, a pan European Association of the Electricity Industry in Brussels.

2004-2005
Company Secretary and Head of Legal at EDP Electricidade de Portugal, SA.

2008-2011
Legal Director at EDP, Energias de Portugal, SA.

2011
Founding partner of Carvalho, Matias & Associados, Sociedade de Advogados.