Andreia is a partner in the Public Law practice. With 20 years' experience, she specialises in town and country planning and environmental law, in particular environmental impact assessment procedures and the use of water resources, as well as administrative litigation. Her clients include Portuguese and international developers, real estate investment funds, private equity funds and banks.

Andreia has extensive experience in advising on the management and development of pools of diversified real estate assets, in particular for housing, tourism, industry, logistics and infrastructure. She advises on projects from the moment of the decision to acquire land/shareholdings, through the process of verifying / defining the assumptions that underpin the business plans, the processes of structuring and implementing development strategies (construction, regeneration, rehabilitation, etc.) and the planning dynamics.

Andreia has completed postgraduate courses in administrative and tax justice, and in spatial planning and environmental law, at the Faculty of Law of the University of Coimbra, and in administrative procedure at the Faculty of Law of the University of Lisbon. She is frequently a speaker and moderator at various conferences on subjects in her area of specialisation.

Andreia was a trainee and began her career as a lawyer at PLMJ. In 2020, she returned to the firm after working as an external adviser on urban planning and land use matters for Hudson Advisors, L.P. and the Novo Banco Real Estate Group.

Bar Admissions
Admitted to the Portuguese Bar Association, 2005

Education
Law degree from the University of Coimbra, 2003
Master's in law (legal-political sciences / rural and urban planning and environmental law), Faculty of Law of the University of Coimbra, 2015
Postgraduate course in administrative procedure from the Faculty of Law of the University of Lisbon, 2011
Postgraduate course in rural and urban planning and environmental law, from the Faculty of Law of the University of Coimbra, 2009
Postgraduate course in administrative and tax justice from the Faculty of Law of the University of Coimbra, 2007

Significant Accomplishments
Chambers Europe
2024 - Andreia Candeias Mousinho, Band 3 Planning & Zoning Law
2023 - Andreia Candeias Mousinho, Band 3 Planning & Zoning Law
2022 - Andreia Candeias Mousinho Planning & Zoning Law
The Legal 500
2023 - Andreia Candeias Mousinho, Recommended Planning Law
2022 - Andreia Candeias Mousinho Planning Law

Professional Associations

• WIRE - Women in Real Estate, 2023

Professional Activities and Experience
Legal consultant at GNB- Sociedade Gestora de Fundos de Investimento Imobiliario, S.A. (Novo Banco Group) and at Fundo de Investimento Imobiliario Fechado Amoreiras, 2019 - 2020
Legal consultant at Lone Star Funds / Hudson Advisers, 2017 - 2019
Senior associate at, Advogados, SP, RL, 2010 - 2017
Associate at the law firm D. Franco, G. R. Martins, J. Jacome, V. P. Neves e Associados, Sociedade de Advogados RL, 2008 - 2010

• Never ending story - A new extension for the adaptation of the municipal plans to the (new) RGJIT rules

  By Andreia Candeias Mousinho, Benedita Lacerda, Micaela Giestas Salvador |July 2022