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Sara de Almeida Barroso

Partner
Lawyer

Contact
CMS Portugal
Rua Castilho 50
1250-071 Lisbon
Portugal
Languages Portuguese, English, French, Spanish

Sara de Almeida Barroso is a Partner in the Planning Law team.

With over 20 years of experience, she specializes in real estate, namely in urban and environmental planning, project management, litigation, and regulatory matters.

Sara is individually recognised by Chambers Europe for the past 18 years and she is recommended by Legal 500, 2024. Moreover, she is recognised for Land Use and Zoning Law and Planning, by Best Lawyers, 2024 and as a Recommended Lawyer for Real Estate by Leaders League, 2024. She was also considered one of the most inspirational women of the Iberian Peninsula by InspiraLaw in 2021 and 2022, by Iberian Lawyer, as well as was recognised by the Financial Times as one of the most innovative young lawyers in Europe in 2016.

Joined CMS Portugal in 2021.

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Described by clients as entrepreneurial and tenacious, Sara Blanco de Morais put on a construction hard hat as part of her legal work for a bankrupt Portuguese client, which had met several obstacles when trying to sell a landholding. She secured a five-fold increase in the sale price of the land.

Finantial Times Innovative Lawyers (2016)

Sara’s knowledge of urban themes and assertiveness are a fundamental contribution to the development of the projects in which we have been working and it is a characteristic recognized by the various players.

Legal 500 (2021)

Sara Blanco de Morais of CMS focuses on licensing, acquisitions and environmental impact assessments, having additional experience in claims against public authorities. Respondents say that "she is dedicated, super knowledgeable and practical, finding creative solutions that have allowed us to overcome seemingly impossible issues.“

Chambers Europe (2022)

Memberships & Roles

  • Member of the Portuguese Bar Association since 2004
  • Member of the panel of arbitrators of CAAD
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Lectures list

  • Visiting Professor at the Faculty of Sciences and Technology of Universidade Nova de Lisboa, 2011
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Education

  • Law degree, Faculdade de Direito, Universidade de Lisboa
  • Postgraduate degree in Urban Planning, Spatial Planning and Tourism, Faculdade de Direito, Universidade de Lisboa
  • Masters degree in Juridical-Administrative Sciences (curricular part), Faculdade de Direito, Universidade de Lisboa
  • PhD candidate, Faculdade de Direito, Universidade de Lisboa
  • Attended the Postgraduate Course in Legistics (curricular part), Faculdade de Direito, Universidade de Lisboa
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