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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 25 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, and has been ranked for the past 15 years. In addition, she is acknowledged in the Hall of Fame by Legal 500, 2025. She is also recognised for Labour and Employment Law, by Best Lawyers for the past years, as well as ranked Excellent for Labor & Employment by Leaders League, 2026. Moreover, she was awarded Lawyer of the Year for Employment, 2024, Lawyer of the Year for Restructuring and Reorganisations from 2020 to 2023 and Lawyer of the Year for Employment, Forty under 40 in 2009, all promoted by Iberian Lawyer. In addition, she is ranked Recommended for Employment and Labour by WWL, 2023.
Joined CMS Portugal in 2010.
