Pedro Vilarinho Pires is a partner at Marques Mendes & Associados.

Pedro Vilarinho Pires was born in 1958, is a 1981 law graduate of the University of Lisbon Law School. He was trainee Assistant-Professor of Law (“monitor”) at the University of Lisbon. In the years of 1993/1997 he was IBM Portugal in-house Counsel and Director of the Legal Services.

His main practice areas are Commercial Law, Corporate Law, Competition/Antitrust Law, Banking/Finance and Insurance Laws, IT Law, Intellectual/Industrial Property Law, Telecommunications Law, Public Procurement Law, Labour Law, Agency and Distribution Law, Contract Law.

He has authored and co-authored various writings on Portuguese Competition law.

He is a member of the Portuguese Bar Association, and of the International Bar Association.