Sara completed her pre-university education at the Lycée Français in Lisbon and later graduated in Law from the Faculty of Law of the University of Lisbon.
She coordinated the intellectual property area at Vieira de Almeida & Associados for 5 years, and co-founded NLP in 2024.
She is an active member of various professional associations and is also a lecturer and author of articles in the field of intellectual property.
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Law degree from the Faculty of Law of the University of Lisbon.
She studied for a semester at the Université René Descartes - Paris V under the Erasmus Programme.
Masters in Legal and Economic Sciences from the Faculty of Law of the University of Lisbon.
Masters (curricular part) in Marketing Management from ISCTE - Instituto Universitario de Lisboa.
University Extension Course in Arbitration at the Faculty of Law of Universidade Nova de Lisboa.
Summer trainee at Simmons & Simmons in 2006.
She joined Vieira de Almeida & Associados (VdA) in 2010 (until 2024), first in the area of telecommunications, media & information technologies (in 2010) and then in intellectual property (from 2010 to 2024), an area she coordinated for 5 years.
She has handled patent litigation in various fields (e.g. pharmaceuticals, telecommunications, medical devices), as well as trade mark and design cases, in various forums: in the context of court and arbitration proceedings for infringement of industrial property rights (including damages claims), in nullity and/or cancellation proceedings regarding these rights, in administrative proceedings with various scopes and in monitoring supplementary protection certificate applications before the INPI.
In 2024 she co-founded NLP.
Lecturer in the field of intellectual property. Author of several articles and publications in the field of intellectual property and arbitration law.
Recognised in The Legal 500 (since 2020; Rising Star in Intellectual Property 2024), Chambers (since 2021; Star Associate in Intellectual Property 2024), IAM Patent 1000 ("Individuals: litigation and transactions" - silver; "Individuals: prosecution – recommended”, 2023), Iberian Lawyer (Legal Dolphin 2021; Shortlisted: Forty Under 40 - Lawyer of the Year IP & TMT, 2023; Shortlisted: Forty Under 40 - Lawyer of the Year IP & TMT, Lawyer of the year Life Sciences & Pharma, Lawyer of the year Litigation, 2022), IP Stars, Who's Who Legal (IP - Patents and Life Sciences - Patent Litigation - Recommended, 2023), Women in Business Law Awards (shortlisted: Rising Star - Intellectual Property, 2022), Managing IP (European Cross-border Patent Litigation Team of the Year (Apixaban), 2024) and IAM Patent (2024).
