Head of Public Law, Energy & Environment, Partner @ Abreu Advogados

Biography

Manuel de Andrade Neves is an executive member of the Board of Directors of Abreu Advogados. Partner since 2001, he joined the firm in 1993. He is also co-coordinator of the International Desk in East Timor and of the practice area of Public and Environment. He is a pioneer in the area of environmental law, working primarily on matters related to energy and natural resources.
Manuel has extensive experience in these matters, having focused on public procurement in the areas of telecommunications, defense, new technologies, health, the environment, water and energy, both nationally and internationally (Mozambique, Angola and East Timor). He was a founder and director of Euronatura – Centro para o Direito Ambiental e o Desenvolvimento Sustentado (Euronatura – Centre for Environmental Law and Sustainable Development), where he held the roles of director and coordinator of the Oceans and International Rivers Programme.
Between 2002 and 2003, he held the position of Chief of Staff, responsible for Spatial Planning and Nature Conservation. He was also a member of the European Council on Environmental Law, and member of the Portuguese Consulting Committee on the Law Governing Land Use, Spatial Planning and Urban Development to which he was appointed by the Ministry of the Environment and Spatial Planning.