PROFESSIONALS
Pedro Rothes Barbosa | Of Counsel
Banking and Finance, Civil Litigation, Commercial and Business, Real Estate
Porto
prb@maio-smca.pt
+351 22 200 33 40
Pedro has been a lawyer since 1998.
He completed his traineeship at the law office of Dr. Pestana Vasconcelos.
He was Legal Advisor to the Associação Comercial do Porto – Câmara de Comércio e Indústria do Porto and to the Parque Arqueológico Vale do Côa (PAVC) – IPA.
He previously practiced as a sole practitioner at his own office, PRB Advogados, in collaboration with Dr. Nuno Morujão.
Throughout his professional career, he has focused mainly on Commercial Arbitration, Civil and Banking Litigation, Commercial and Corporate Law, and Real Estate.
In the field of Banking Litigation, he represented, for about 15 years, a market-leading international bank specialized in personal and consumer credit.
He has been Of Counsel at the Porto office of Maio SMCA since 2025.
He completed his traineeship at the law office of Dr. Pestana Vasconcelos.
He was Legal Advisor to the Associação Comercial do Porto – Câmara de Comércio e Indústria do Porto and to the Parque Arqueológico Vale do Côa (PAVC) – IPA.
He previously practiced as a sole practitioner at his own office, PRB Advogados, in collaboration with Dr. Nuno Morujão.
Throughout his professional career, he has focused mainly on Commercial Arbitration, Civil and Banking Litigation, Commercial and Corporate Law, and Real Estate.
In the field of Banking Litigation, he represented, for about 15 years, a market-leading international bank specialized in personal and consumer credit.
He has been Of Counsel at the Porto office of Maio SMCA since 2025.
Academic background
Law Degree from the Porto Faculty of Law of the Universidade Católica Portuguesa, Porto, Portugal (1994).
Postgraduate Degree in International and European Law from the Catholic University of Louvain-la-Neuve, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium (1995).
Postgraduate Degree in Land Use Planning, Urban Planning and Environmental Law from the University of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal (2004).
Languages
Portuguese, English, French and Spanish.
Associations
Registered as a Lawyer with the Portuguese Bar Association since 1998.
Brother of the Third Order of Saint Francis since 2018.
Brother of the Third Order of Saint Francis since 2018.