Benedita is a managing associate in the Public Law practice and she has around 20 years of professional experience, focusing on the areas of administrative law, public contracts, public procurement and planning, including litigation.

Her experience also includes advising clients on regulatory matters in various sectors and dealing with concessions for public works and services, and for the use of water resources, particularly in the context of expropriations.

Benedita regularly participates in conferences and as a lecturer on matters of administrative litigation, public procurement and the environment.

She has completed postgraduate courses in administrative litigation and in public procurement at the Faculty of Law of Universidade Catolica Portuguesa in Porto.

Before joining PLMJ, Benedita was a lawyer at Cuatrecasas and JPAB - Jose Pedro Aguiar-Branco & Associados.

Education
Law degree from Universidade Catolica Portuguesa in Porto, 2000.
Admitted to the Portuguese Bar Association
Postgraduate course in 'The New Administrative Litigation' from the Faculty of Law of Universidade Catolica Portuguesa in Porto, 2003
Postgraduate course in 'The New Public Procurement Code' at the Faculty of Law of Universidade Catolica Portuguesa in Porto, 2009
Specialisation course on the municipal business sector at the Faculty of Law of the University of Coimbra (CEDIPRE), 2010.
Advanced training course in 'Public Extra-Contractual Civil Liability' at the Faculty of Law of Universidade Catolica Portuguesa in Porto, 2012
Advanced training course in 'The New Framework of the Code of Administrative Procedure' at the Faculty of Law of Universidade Catolica Portuguesa in Porto, 2015
Initial pedagogical training for trainers (certificate of teaching skills/CCP), B-Training/Gesperitus, 2018
Contract design training, Lexdebata/Gertolio Vargas Foundation, 2019