Madalena Perestrelo de Oliveira is currently a Guest Professor at the University of Lisbon School of Law, where she has been teaching since 2011. Her PhD thesis focuses on investors’ protection in capital markets, namely on civil liability for securities fraud and on delisting situations.

Madalena is a regular speaker at several courses and conferences. She helps coordinate various postgraduate and intensive courses in the Lisbon Center for Research in Private Law in the areas of corporate governance, corporate finance, investment funds, bankruptcy and breach of contract. She also published several scientific articles and books in her areas of study.

Madalena is a non-executive director at Novabase SGPS, SA., a Portuguese listed company, where she previously held the position of the board of the general meeting’ secretary.

She is also of counsel at PLMJ in the Banking and Finance and Corporate M&A practices, and deputy director at the Journal of Financial Law and Capital Markets (RDFMC).

Graduated (2013) in Law at the Faculty of Law of the University of Lisbon and LL.M. (2014) in European Legal Studies at the College of Europe (Bruges Campus), António Garcia Rolo is currently Guest Academic Assistant in the Faculty of Law of the University of Lisbon, providing assistance in courses on securities law, corporate finance law, law of obligations and civil enforcement law. António Garcia Rolo has penned various published works on company law, European company law, securities law, cryptoassets, DAOs and civil and procedural law. António also regularly speaks in academic events and post-graduate courses on topics such as the law of cryptoassets, DAOs, company law and securities law.

He is also a PhD candidate in the Faculty of Law of the University of Lisbon, a researcher at the Lisbon Centre for Research in Private Law, has been a practicing lawyer, and is currently a legal advisor in the Portuguese Central Bank.​

Ana Nunes Teixeira is a Portuguese qualified lawyer specialised in Corporate Law and M&A, currently working at PLMJ law firm as an Associate of the Corporate/M&A and Private Equity practice area. Ana has significant experience in advising companies and institutional investors on matters related to corporate law, mergers and acquisitions, private equity, venture capital and restructuring, as well as in assisting Fintech companies in corporate and financial law matters, particularly in the scope of investments in crypto assets. Prior to qualifying as a lawyer in Portugal, Ana worked as a Blue Book Trainee at the European Commission and as a Legal Researcher at KU Leuven University. Ana holds a MsC in Corporate and Business Law and a Postgraduate Degree in Banking and Securities Law by Católica University Law School, a Postgraduate Degree in Corporate Finance by the Faculty of Law of the University of Lisbon, as well as an LLB in Law from the Faculty of Law of the University of Porto.

João Serras de Sousa is currently a Guest Lecturer at University of Lisbon School of Law (since 2015), where Graduated in 2015. Concluded his Master’s academic part in 2016 and is currently preparing his doctoral dissertation in the field of Legal Sciences (which focuses on knowledge and legal persons).

Researcher at the Lisbon Center for Research in Private Law – CIDP (since 2015) and speaker at several courses and conferences. His main research areas are Civil Law and Corporate Law.

Lawyer at PLMJ (since 2016) in Corporate M&A and Private Equity practice.

PhD in Law at the Faculty of Law of the University of Porto, having been unanimously approved in the Oral Defence, with the thesis entitled "Regulation of Forms of FinTech Corporate Finance - In particular Crowdfunding and Initial Coin Offerings".  Since May 2018, Legal Advisor at CMVM – Portuguese Securities Market Authority. Since February 2022, Professor at the Faculty of Law of the Lusófona University and Integrated Researcher at the Centro de Estudos Avançados em Direito Francisco Suarez. 

Law degree (2017) at the University of Lisbon Faculty of Law and completed post-graduate studies in Banking Law (2017), Corporate Finance (2016) and Bioethics (2016), Marta Boura is a lawyer and a Guest Lecturer in Private Law at the University of Lisbon Faculty of Law, a PhD candidate and a researcher affiliated with the Lisbon Centre for Research in Private Law since 2019.

Previous experience lecturing Portuguese Employment classes in context of the Interdisciplinary Legal Practice program at the Faculty of Law of Nova University of Lisbon (FDUNL) (2018 and 2019).

Marta has published research in the fields of Private Law, Banking Law and Commercial Arbitration.