Bio

Susana Afonso develops her skills in the area of Labor Law for over 20 years and has been recognized as an expert in her field by the Portuguese Bar Association. She is the leading coordinator of CMS Rui Pena & Arnaut's Labor Law team. Susana Afonso coordinates and supervises day-to-day legal and employment advice to national and international companies, through the preparation of opinions and memoranda, monitoring of negotiations for the termination of employment contracts, conducting collective dismissal and termination processes, monitoring and representing clients in the negotiation and review of collective regulation instruments, conducting processes related to the transfer of workplaces, transfer of establishment, definition of compensation plans and organization of working time. In recent years she has participated and coordinated some of the most important restructuring processes in the country, namely in the financial, insurance, industrial, construction, aviation, retail, pharmaceutical and services sectors. Within the restructuring processes in which she has been involved, she has gained extensive experience in negotiating with trade unions. She is recognized in the market for her vast experience in staff restructuring processes, being considered by Legal 500 as "leading individual".