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Susana Afonso is a Partner and heads the Employment, Labour & Pensions team and is part of the ESG Task Force. She is also a member of CMS Portugal's Board of Directors.
With over 30 years of experience, she develops her skills in the field of labour law, coordinating and supervising day-to-day legal and employment advice to national and international companies, through the preparation of opinions and memoranda, monitoring of negotiations for the termination of employment contracts, conducting collective dismissal and termination processes, monitoring and representing clients in the negotiation and review of collective regulation instruments, conducting processes related to the transfer of workplaces, transfer of establishment, definition of compensation plans and organization of working time.
In recent years she has participated in and coordinated some of the most important restructuring processes in the country, namely in the financial, insurance, industrial, construction, aviation, retail, pharmaceutical, and services sectors. She has gained extensive experience in negotiating with trade unions and workers’ committees within the context of restructuring processes.
Susana is individually ranked Band 1 for Employment by Chambers Europe 2025 for the past 15 years and listed in the Legal 500 2025 “Hall of Fame”. She has been consistently recognised by Best Lawyers and is ranked Excellent by Leaders League 2026.
Susana was distinguished by Iberian Lawyer as one of the Top 20 Lawyers 2025 and received the Lawyer of the Year 2025 award in the Restructuring & Reorganisations category (since 2020). She was also recognised by Forty Under 40 as Lawyer of the Year (2009) and is Recommended by WWL.
Joined CMS Portugal in 2010.
