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Mariana Vilar Tavares and Sérgio Alves, Ricardo Bandeira and Filipa Nunes Pinto have joined TELLES' Administrative and Public Procurement, Real Estate, Construction and Urban Planning and Labour and Social Security practices.

Mariana Vilar Tavares and Sérgio Alves join TELLES' Administrative and Public Procurement practice, coordinated by partner Pedro Almeida e Sousa.

Mariana Vilar Tavares has focused her professional activity on administrative, judicial and arbitral litigation, with a particular emphasis on public procurement and public services, as well as on providing legal advice to public and private entities. She holds a degree in Law and a Masters in Administrative Law from the Faculdade de Direito of the Universidade do Porto. She also holds a postgraduate degree in Public Labour Law from the Instituto de Ciências Jurídico-Políticas.

Sérgio Alves has developed his professional activity in Administrative Law and Public Procurement, providing legal advice to public and private entities, not only in the administrative phase, but also in administrative litigation. He holds a degree in Law from the Faculdade de Direito of the Universidade de Lisboa.

Under the coordination of partner Pedro Almeida e Sousa, Ricardo Bandeira joins the Real Estate, Construction and Urban Planning team.
With 10 years of experience, Ricardo Bandeira specialises in urban planning and land management law, advising public and private entities in the management of pre-audit procedures, the development of real estate assets, as well as the drafting of urban planning contracts and the review of territorial management instruments. He worked as a legal advisor in the Office of the Councillor for Planning, Urbanism and Public Relations at Lisbon City Hall. He has also worked as a legal advisor in the Legal Department of Oliveira do Bairro City Hall. He holds a Master's degree in Administrative Law, specialising in Energy, from the Lisbon Law School of the Portuguese Catholic University and a postgraduate degree in Real Estate Law from the Porto Law School of the Universidade Católica do Porto. He graduated in Law from the Faculdade de Direito of the Universidade de Coimbra.

Filipa Nunes Pinto joins the Employment and Social Security practice at TELLES, coordinated by partner Gonçalo Pinto Ferreira.

In recent years, her professional career has focused on providing in-house legal services to national and international companies. She was Head of Legal at the Human Resources Department of the Joaquim Chaves Saúde Group and a lawyer at NetJets Europe, where she gained extensive experience in human resources management and labour processes. She holds a Master's degree in Business Law from the Faculdade de Direito of the Universidade de Lisboa and a Law degree from the same university.