SRS Legal integrates LSM Advogados

SRS Legal is deeply honoured to announce that it has incorporated LSM Advogados, in a decision that pays tribute to the outstanding career of its recently deceased founder, Professor Luís Silva Morais (1966–2024), one of the most prominent figures in European Union law and financial regulation in Portugal and abroad.

LSM Advogados is one of the most reputable legal boutiques in Portugal providing specialised advice to both public and private entities with a focus on Competition and European Union Law, Economic Regulation and Financial Supervision, while also advising on Corporate Law, and Administrative, Economic and Public Procurement Law. Its work is distinguished by the combination of three core areas: litigation with a focus on Competition and Regulatory Law — at national and European level; consulting and legal opinions; and the setting-up and review of Corporate Governance and Compliance models.

Its founder, Professor Luís Silva Morais, was a Doctor of Law, Professor at the Faculty of Law of the University of Lisbon, holder of the Jean Monnet Chair, arbitrator, expert and lawyer with extensive experience in economic regulation, financial supervision and representation of the Portuguese Republic before the Court of Justice of the European Union. He founded and coordinated the Centre for Research on Financial Regulation and Supervision, in partnership with the Central Bank of Portugal, the Portuguese Securities Market Commission (CMVM), the Agency for the management of the treasury and financing of the Portuguese Republic (IGCP) and the European Banking Institute. He also held positions of high responsibility as Vice-President of the Appeal Panel of the Single Resolution Board, Chairman of the Supervisory Board of the Insurance and Pension Fund Supervision Authority (ASF), and member of the European Banking Authority (EBA) Stakeholder Group. Professor Luís Silva Morais' humanistic vision and academic rigour are at the heart of LSM Advogados, a law firm he led with a clear purpose: to serve the law with scientific depth and dedication.

Cristina Homem Ferreira Morais, Partner at LSM, has now joined SRS Legal as Of Counsel. With solid experience in legal and regulatory advice to public and private entities and a career built in law, she is a graduate of the Faculty of Law of the University of Lisbon and has two postgraduate degrees (in European Studies, with a focus on law, from the Portuguese Catholic University; and in Labour Law from the Institute of Labour Law at the Faculty of Law of the University of Lisbon). She has been practising law since 1992, having been a legal advisor and lawyer at the Multinational Group ABB (Asea Brown Boveri) in Portugal, where she also held responsibilities in the Human Resources Department, acquiring in-depth experience and practice in the areas of Labour Law and Human Resources management, as well as in Corporate, Tax and Social Security matters.

Also coming from LSM Advogados, Lúcio Tomé Feteira, one of the leading names in competition law and financial regulation in Portugal, joins SRS Legal as Of Counsel. With a solid academic and professional career, having previously collaborated with SRS between 2002 and 2003, at the then Simmons & Simmons Rebelo de Sousa. He then worked at Soares Machado & Associados (a firm that also joined SRS Legal in 2010) between 2003 and 2004. He has been with LSM Advogados since 2015 and is an Associate Professor at Nova School of Law since then. He holds a PhD in Law from the European University Institute in Florence, with a thesis entitled The Interplay between European and National Competition Law after Regulation 1/2003. United (Should) We Stand?.

"I believe that SRS Legal is the most suitable structure to ensure continuity of the ongoing relationship with LSM's clients. It is also a way of honouring Luís' career and continuing to advise our clients with the depth, rigour and humanity that have always guided us and which, we are sure, Luís would be proud of," says Cristina Homem Ferreira Morais.

According to César Sá Esteves and Octávio Castelo Paulo, Managing Partners at SRS Legal, "SRS Legal is honoured to welcome the LSM team. This represents not only a technical reinforcement of strategic areas of SRS Legal, namely Competition and Financial Regulation, and of our links with academia, but also the continuation of a legacy that transcends the legal sphere. We believe that this union reinforces SRS Legal's mission to be “About Law, Around People”, with the best professionals serving the increasingly demanding challenges facing the legal profession."