0%
Of Counsel
Professional Experience
Email: frs@costapinto.developmentserver02.com
Main practice areas: Litigation, Administrative Law and Real Estate Law.
Languages: Portuguese and English and Spanish.
Lawyer
Professional Experience
Email: daf@costapinto.developmentserver02.com
Main practice areas: Corporate Law, Real Estate Law and Litigation.
Languages: Portuguese and English and Spanish.
Lawyer
Professional Experience
Email: cmm@costapinto.developmentserver02.com
Main practice areas: Real Estate Law, Corporate Law and Labour Law.
Languages: Portuguese, English and Spanish.
Trainee Lawyer
Professional Experience
Email: iva@costapinto.developmentserver02.com
Main practice areas: Corporate Law, Commercial Law, Real Estate Law and Litigation.
Languages: Portuguese and English.
Lawyer
Professional Experience
Email: ard@costapinto.developmentserver02.com
Main practice areas: Corporate Law, Commercial Law and Real Estate Law.
Languages: Portuguese, English and Spanish.
Lawyer
Professional Experience
Email: rdr@costapinto.developmentserver02.com
Main practice areas: Corporate Law, Commercial Law and M&A
Languages: Portuguese and English.
Save VCard
Trainee Lawyer
Professional Experience
Email: pcs@costapinto.developmentserver02.com
Main practice areas: Regulatory, Compliance and ESG, Corporate Law and Commercial Law.
Languages: Portuguese, English and Italian.
Of Counsel
Professional Experience
Email: hmg@costapinto.developmentserver02.com
Main practice areas: Litigation.
Languages: Portuguese, English and French.
Save VCard
Lawyer
Professional Experience
Email: cco@costapinto.developmentserver02.com
Main practice areas: Corporate Law, Commercial Law and Real Estate Law.
Languages: Portuguese, English and Spanish.
Partner
Ana da Ponte Lopes is a partner at Costa Pinto, where she leads the team dedicated to supporting clients on corporate governance, regulatory, compliance, and ESG matters – both in transactional contexts and in consultancy and ongoing advisory work for these institutions.
She has been a member of the Board of Directors of the Portuguese Observatory of Compliance and Regulation since 2025. Since 2024, she has also been a Member of the Audit Committee of Ares Lusitani STC, S.A.
She is currently part of the CSO Circle of BCSD – Business Council for Sustainable Development and represents Costa Pinto as a stakeholder of the Gender, Work and Power Observatory at ISEG – Lisbon School of Economics and Management.
Since 2015, Ana da Ponte Lopes has been dedicated to banking supervision, having served between 2018 and 2023 as Functional Coordinator of the Fitness and Corporate Governance Unit at Banco de Portugal, which acts as a gatekeeper for directors and key function holders in banks and financial institutions, validates the composition of management and supervisory bodies and their committees, and also assesses the internal control mechanisms of these institutions.
Her previous professional experience includes serving as in-house counsel in the corporate department at Teixeira Duarte, where she provided legal support to the parent company’s Board of Directors and acted as secretary of the general assembly boards of several group companies between 2010 and 2015.
Before that, Ana da Ponte Lopes was a Senior Associate at Garrigues law firm, in the Competition and Commercial Contracts Department, from 2005 to 2010.
She is also a speaker on corporate governance and fit & proper matters in training sessions and courses at ISEG – Lisbon School of Economics and Management.
Email: apl@costapinto.developmentserver02.com
Main practice areas: Regulatory law, Compliance and ESG.
Languages: Portuguese, English and Spanish.
Lawyer
Professional Experience
Email: tpa@costapinto.developmentserver02.com
Main practice areas: Commercial law, Corporate law, Mergers & Aquisitions.
Languages: Portuguese, Spanish, English and French.
Save VCard
Lawyer
Professional Experience
Email: ala@costapinto.developmentserver02.com
Main pratice areas: Corporate law, Commercial law and Real Estate Law.
Languages: Portuguese and English.
Save VCard
Lawyer
Professional Experience
Email: jfa@costapinto.developmentserver02.com
Main pratice areas: Corporate and Commercial law.
Languages: Portuguese and English.
Trainee
Professional Experience
Email: smp@costapinto.developmentserver02.com
Main pratice areas: Corporate law, Commercial law and Compliance.
Languages: Portuguese and English.
Lawyer
Professional Experience
Email: rcb@costapinto.developmentserver02.com
Main practice areas: Tax law, Corporate law, Finance law, Commercial law and Real Estate law.
Languages: Portuguese and English.
Lawyer
Professional Experience
Email: mic@costapinto.developmentserver02.com
Main practice areas: Corporate law, Finance law, Commercial law, Intellectual Property and Real Estate law.
Languages: Portuguese, French and English.
Lawyer
Professional Experience
Email: cam@costapinto.developmentserver02.com
Main practice areas: Real Estate Law and Litigation
Languages: Portuguese and English.
Founding Partner
José Costa Pinto is the founding partner of Costa Pinto where he specializes in commercial and corporate law issues and has extensive experience in corporate restructuring, M&A and private equity transactions. He is currently the Vice-President of the Portuguese Institute of Corporate Governance and the Chair of the Board of the General Assembly of the Portuguese Compliance and Regulatory Observatory.
José Costa Pinto ia also Vice-Chairman of the Board of the General Meeting of Galp SGPS, S.A., since May 2023, and also Secretary of the Board of the General Meeting of Sporting Clube de Portugal, since 2018. He is also Chairman of the Board of the General Meeting of several companies and investment funds.
He was President of the National Association of Portuguese Young Lawyers (ANJAP) between 2014 and 2018.
Before founding Costa Pinto Advogados, José Costa Pinto worked for Uría Menéndez – Proença de Carvalho and Simmons & Simmons. He has also been author and co-author of several tecnical articles and speaker at conferences and public events.