Tax Advisers - Deloitte

Portugal
Francisco de Sousa da Câmara
Morais Leitão, Galvão Teles, Soares da Silva & Associados
Rua Castilho, 165
1070-050 Lisbon
Portugal
Tel: (351) 21 381 74 35
Fax: (351) 21 381 74 90
Email: fscamara@mlgts.pt
Francisco de Sousa da Câmara focuses his professional activity on the areas of tax law
(domestic and international), tax litigation and corporate and commercial law
Mr de Sousa da Câmara joined MLGTS in 1986, becoming a partner in 1991. He is
now head of the tax practice group. He represents major corporations and
multinationals in tax restructuring operations dealing with different types of taxes, as
well as matters related to the application of double taxation treaties and EC tax law.
He has also actively worked in the areas of transfer pricing, in both the drafting of
agreements and litigation before the tax authorities and tax courts; the taxation of
derivatives and financial products; securitization; and the structure of international
operations using the International Business Center of Madeira. Tax litigation also
plays a significant role in his professional activities, and he leads a team of lawyers with
over 200 judicial and administrative cases, dealing with a wide range of tax issues.
He is a member of several committees of experts in charge of drafting the revised tax
legislation. He is also a visiting professor of international tax law at Nova University.
Mr de Sousa da Câmara is chairman of the Portuguese Association of Tax Consultants,
and a member of the Portuguese Tax Association, International Fiscal Association,
European Association of Tax Law Professors and the Confederation Fiscale
Européenne.
He is author of several articles published on tax subjects and a correspondent in
Portugal for the International Bureau of Fiscal Documentation, Tax Analysts and the
EU Tax Journal.
He received his law degree in 1986, completed postgraduate studies in EU law in
1987, and received his masters in tax and financial law in 1992 from the Portuguese
Catholic University. He has been a member of the Portuguese Bar Association since
1988 and is a specialist lawyer in tax law (2004).
Mr de Sousa da Câmara speaks Portuguese, English and French.
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