Sérvulo supports conference and Master’s programme in Energy

NEWS AND EVENTS 23 Sep 2010

The inaugural conference of the Master’s programme in Administrative Law – Energy Branch of the Portuguese Catholic University, will take place on October 1, at 10am, at the Lisbon Electricity Museum, and is coordinated by Rui Medeiros and Lino Torgal, partners at SÉRVULO.

The theme of the conference is Energy in the Iberian Peninsula and the European Challenge, and the speakers will include Prof. Gaspar Ariño Ortiz, professor of Administrative Law and a lawyer, Jorge Cruz Morais, Director of EDP, and Joaquim Pina Moura, CEO of Iberdrola Portugal.

The Master’s programme is coordinated by Rui Medeiros, with the participation of Lino Torgal on the Energy branch, and it boasts a faculty composed of public contracts and energy specialists, and of representatives of the major energy players in the market. The newly-created Energy branch of the programme offers a multidisciplinary and transnational approach, and it attempts to bring together the experiences of several jurisdictions that already have a tradition in the Energy sector. Click here for full programme details (in Portuguese).

For SÉRVULO, its strong ties to academia are an integral part of its DNA and a clearly differentiating identity trait, as well as a guarantee of added quality to its services, without compromising on efficacy. As such, the law firm seeks to support and incentivize innovative and relevant initiatives such as this one, which focus on the firm’s main areas of specialization, as is the case with Public Law and Energy Law.

For more information on the Master visit www.fd.lisboa.ucp.pt (in Portuguese).