Managing Associate

Private Clients

Ana Paula Pimentel Ferreira

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With over 30 years of experience, Ana Paula has built a distinguished career in Family and Inheritance Law, Notarial Acts, Registries, Corporate Law, and Immigration and Portuguese Citizenship. She advises both companies and private clients, with a particular focus on family-owned businesses.

Ana Paula maintains close and ongoing relationships with national and international clients, supporting them in navigating legal challenges as they arise. She is especially active in succession planning, including the preparation and structuring of wills, family protocols and other legal instruments that ensure a smooth transition — both in personal and asset matters, and in the governance of family businesses.

As a certified family mediator, Ana Paula brings a unique sensitivity to conflict resolution within families and family-run companies, promoting balanced and lasting solutions, particularly in succession and asset reorganisation contexts.

She also has extensive experience in resolving complex registry issues, particularly in real estate, corporate and civil matters. Her work often involves coordinating with multiple public entities, legal domains and jurisdictions, with a strong focus on private international law.

Highly regarded by clients and peers for her availability, technical expertise and problem-solving skills, Ana Paula stands out for the breadth of her legal knowledge and the holistic perspective she brings to each matter, contributing to robust, integrated and effective legal solutions.

Academic Training

— Family Mediation Course, Consulmed – National Association for Conflict Resolution (2024)

— Course on Family Protocols, Efconsulting (2022)

— Advanced Training Course on Inter Vivos Gifts: Donations, Legal and Judicial Training Unit (UNIFOJ), University of Coimbra (2022)

— Registry and Notarial Cycle 2022 – Simplified Land Registry Information System and One-Stop Property Desk (BUPI), Legal and Judicial Training Unit (UNIFOJ), University of Coimbra (2022)

— Training on Succession in Family Businesses, IF Executives (2021)

— Advanced Training Course on Succession and Partition by Inheritance and Divorce, Legal and Judicial Training Unit (UNIFOJ), University of Coimbra (2020)

— Advanced Training Course on Establishing Parentage and Its Impact on Nationality Attribution and Acquisition, Legal and Judicial Training Unit (UNIFOJ), University of Coimbra (2019)

— Law Degree, University of Lisbon (1992)

Career Path

Ana Paula is the Managing Associate of CCA’s Private Clients practice, having joined the firm in 1997, where she has built most of her professional career.

Since November 2024, she has also been a certified family mediator, complementing her legal practice with a constructive approach to conflict resolution within families and family-run businesses.

She began her career as a trainee lawyer at a prestigious national law firm, where she worked within multidisciplinary teams.

Associations

Member of the Portuguese Bar Association (Ordem dos Advogados)

Beyond Law

Photography, gastronomy, and reading.

apf@cca.law

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