##  [Miguel Maria Cortes Martins](/pt/en_GB/team/miguel-maria-cortes-martins) 

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 Miguel Maria Cortes Martins Senior associate 

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Miguel Cortes Martins is a senior associate in the EU and Competition Law Department of Garrigues, where he practices in the areas of competition law, European Union, e-commerce, unfair competition and other restrictive trade practices. He has extensive experience in competition law sanctions and litigation proceedings, as well as in providing strategic advice to companies, drafting compliance programmes and merger control procedures.

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Miguel Cortes Martins is a senior associate in Garrigues' EU and Competition Law Department since 2021.

Throughout his professional career he has worked actively in sanction and litigation proceedings, as well as in strategic advice to companies, drafting compliance programmes and merger control procedures.

Before joining Garrigues, Miguel Cortes Martins worked as a Legal Counsel in the Restrictive Practices Department of the Portuguese Competition Authority between 2017 and 2021, having started his professional career, as a trainee lawyer, at the law firm Morais Leitão, Galvão Teles &amp; Soares da Silva (currently MLGTS).





 

 

 

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Executive Training Course in Competition &amp; Digital Markets by the College of Europe.

Post-Graduation in Regulation &amp; Competition by the Institute of Economic, Financial and Tax Law of the Faculty of Law of the University of Lisbon.

Post-Graduation in Public Procurement Law and Practice from the Faculty of Law of the Catholic University of Lisbon.

Graduated in Law from the Law Faculty of the Portuguese Catholic University of Lisbon.





 

 

 

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Registered with the Portuguese Bar Association since 2016.

 

 

 

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"Comissão Europeia reconhece a relevância do comércio online em novo Regulamento". Dinheiro Vivo. 06/06/2022.

"Scania e Outros v. Comissão: o procedimento híbrido e a garantia dos direitos de defesa das visadas". Garrigues. 29/03/2022.



 

 

 







 

 



 

 

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