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Inês Teixeira

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She is an incredible lawyer, with enormous focus and an extraordinary work capacity.
Legal 500, 2025
About

Inês Teixeira is a Lit & Reg Partner since 2022. She’s fully dedicated to aviation and regulatory matters and with deep knowledge of the aviation industry.  She also works with clients from other sectors such as energy, tobacco and gambling.

She focuses more on regulatory matters and is responsible for day-to-day assistance to big airlines companies. She also plays a key role on the regulatory and ops matters of the activity of a major ailine in Portugal.

She always seeks to provide innovative approaches and pragmatic solutions.

PROFESSIONAL QUALIFICATIONSAdvogado admitted with the Ordem dos Advogados (Portuguese Bar Association)

EXPERIENCE

  • Advising several key players in energy transition on the judicial challenge of the evaluations and the real estate tax that is being imposed by the Portuguese Tax Authorities to windfarms.
  • Advising several airlines, namely for tax and air law issues and also regulatory and policy matters.
  • Advising several online gambling operators to obtain licenses in Portugal.
  • Advising several transactions, in Portugal and abroad, focused on the financing, acquisition and restructuring of multinational economic groups.
Languages
  • Portuguese
  • English
  • French

Awards

• Distinguished by Legal Business as Green Ambassador: Europe 2025 
• Distinguished by "Women in Tax Leaders" (International Tax Review) as a Leading Adviser in Portugal
• Ranked as Next Generation Partner by Legal 500 in Transport
• Ranked as Up and Coming by Chambers and Partners in Transportation: Aviation
• Distinguished by International Tax Review 2021 as Leading Lawyer in Portugal
• Distinguished with the II Wolters Kluwer Doctrinal Articles honourable mention
• Recommended by Legal 500 in Tax
Education
  • Nova University, School of Law, PhD in Law, Doctoral Candidate
  • Lisbon University, School of Law, Post-Graduation Degree in Arbitration, 2016
  • Lisbon University, School of Law, Master in Business Law, with a thesis on the Airport Charges Regulation and Policy, 2011
  • Lisbon University, School of Law, Post-Graduation Degree in Air Law, 2011
  • Lisbon University, School of Law, Law Degree, 2007

Publications

  • In co-authorship with a Eduardo Raposo, "Taxa de Carbono para Consumidores de Viagens Aéreas em Aeronaves de até 19 Lugares: Análise Crítica”, AAFDL Editora, 2025
  • "Estudos em Homenagem ao Professor Doutor Eduardo Paz Ferreira", 2 Volumes, AAFDL Editora, 2025
  • "Sports Arbitration Court Law - Introduction, references and notes", Almedina, 2017
  • In co-authorship with António Moura Portugal, “Tobacco Tax and the new Excise Duties Code: the smoke of unconstitucionality?”, Iberian Lawyer, July/August 2010
  • "Crédito Documentário", Wolters Kluwer, Jusjornal nº 1060, July 2010
  • O Discurso Jurídico e o Discurso Prático Geral na Teoria de Robert Alexy: "o encantamento do mito da racionalidade?", Wolters Kluwer, Jusjornal nº 1046, July 2010
  • In co-authorship with António Moura Portugal, Regulation of Civil Aviation, in “Regulação em Portugal: Novos Tempos, Novo Modelo?”, Almedina, 2009

Seminars

  • Lecturer in the Master Course in Taxation at the Algarve University
  • Invited Lecturer of the Mini-MBA in Air Law, IRR Portugal
  • IATA Instructor on Aviation related tax matters

Prior Experience

  • 2007 - present, Trainee / Senior Associate / Partner at DLA Piper ABBC (previously ABBC)
  • 2007, Millennium BCP Bank, Summer Trainee at the Securities Department

Memberships And Affiliations

  • Member of AFP – Portuguese Tax Association

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