Meet the Team
We have extensive experience in the banking, blockchain, and energy industries. Notwithstanding the industries we focus our services, we have experience in the fields of mergers and acquisitions, corporate and tax strategic investments, takeovers, shareholder activism, corporate and securities law, corporate governance, environment, energy and issues regarding immigration, specially to help our existing clients to move to the EU. We handle some of the most complex and demanding transactions in the blockchain industry in Portugal, the EU and South America. We also handle sensitive litigation, arbitration and administrative matters and counsel boards of directors and senior management in the most sensitive situations.
Marcio Matos de Oliveira
Managing Partner and Head of Corporate Practice
email: mm@mmlaw.pt
Marcio is the Managing Partner and head of the Corporate Practice.
He has being in the crypto ecossystem since 2013. He has a sound experience in the fields of Blockchain/Banking/Securities/Energy/Corporate, Infrastructure and Arbitration, with 20+ years experience working for multinationals, international private practice, legal adviser for private companies in 4 jurisdictions, as well as four-time Delegate for Environment & Energy projects in UN Conference of the Parties (COP). Marcio holds a Master of Laws (LLM) degree in Environment and Energy in the Centre for Energy, Petroleum and Mineral Law and Policy (CEPMLP) in the University of Dundee, Scotland, UK, and a Bachelors Degree in Law (J.D) in the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), Brazil. Admitted to practice law in multiple jurisdictions. Marcio has been providing legal advice on all phases of financial, banking, fintech, blockchain, construction, energy, and environment large scale projects.
Marcio speaks Portuguese (native), English (fluent), French (fluent), Spanish and Italian (proficient).
Maria Milagros SantaMaria
Head of the Blockchain Practice
email: ms@mmlaw.pt
Milagros is the head of blockchain industry practice. She is specialized in both new technologies (Web3, Blockchain, AI) and Corporate Law. Her experience is extensive, holding the position of Senior Lawyer at MMLaw, an international law firm based in Lisbon, Portugal, and head of their Blockchain Department.
Milagros has also a strong academic background, holding professorships at Universidad Austral and IAE Business School, collaborating with ADEN International Business School. She is an observer member of the Texas Department of Agriculture within the OIV, where she focuses on the applicability of blockchain technology within the wine industry.
She holds a law degree from the Universidad de Mendoza (Argentina), and also went to University of Lisbon (winner of the 2017 Santander's IberoAmerican Scholarship). She has a Master's degree in Business Law from ADEN International Business School, and is currently undergoing several specializations on Compliance and AI applied to Business.
Milagros speaks Spanish (native), English (fluent), Portuguese (fluent), French (fluent), Spanish and Italian (proficient).
​Ênio Lacerda
Head of the Tax Practice
email: el@mmlaw.pt
Enio is the head of the Tax Practice at MMLAW Firm with 22 years of experience in the fields of Tax and Public Law. He is also largely engaged with contentious, judicial and administrative matters. He has also act as Attorney General for a Municipality in Brazil, where he served for around 16 years. He has been providing assistance to our clients, both residents and those intending to establish residence in Portugal, helping them to design the most favorable scenario from a tax perspective, mainly revenues obtained from crypto assets, recently regulated by both Portuguese law, through CIRS and CIRC, and the European Union itself, through the European Cryptoasset Market (MICA) and other Regulations. Enio currently attend a master degree at the University of Lisbon (Ulisboa), in the area of Fundamental Rights, focusing on data protection in law. He is gradutated from the Catholic University of Pernambuco (UNICAP) and holds a postgraduate degree in Public Law from the School of Magistracy of Pernambuco, in Labor Law and Labor Procedure, from Anhanguera University (UNIDERP), an LLM in Tax Law from Fundação Getúlio Vargas (FGV), Brazil.
Before joining our firm, he was a Junior Lawyer at Petrobrás (the giant Petroleum company) and General Attorney of a Municipality in Brasil.
Enio speaks Portuguese (native), English (proficient), Spanish .
Rafaela Oliveira
Chief Financial Officer (CFO)
email: ro@mmlaw.pt
Rafaela is graduated in Law, where she played a fundamental role as a partner and CFO in a law firm for 16 years. In MMLaw, she holds the position of coordinator and case portfolio manager, serving companies and high net worth individuals. Her experience includes providing the firm with a comprehensive view of the challenges facing modern organizations. She has a solid understanding of the financial and strategic complexities that permeate the corporate world. In MMLaw, her role also covers a wide range of functions, including strategic planning, project management and supervise multidisciplinary teams.
Rafaela speaks Portuguese (native), English (proficient), and Spanish (intermediate).
Gonçalo de Araújo e Gama​
Associate Lawyer
email: gg@mmlaw.pt
Gonçalo is an associate lawyer working in the legal fields of Blockchain and Fintech. He is also a biochemical scientist and a technology entushiast. Gonçalo has a Bachelor in Law, a Master’s Degree in Trasnational Law and in Law in the Digital Economy, with a minor in European Law and authored a Master Thesis on Blockchain, Privacy and Data Protection from Universidade Católica Portuguesa and Católica Global School. He is also a Bachelor in Applied Biology, He has worked as a legal intern in SRS Legal (Lisbon) in the Life Sciences and Pharmaceutical Department, and later as litigation lawyer for 3 years in two different law offices across Portugal. Complementarily, he also worked with the Portuguese Government and the Portuguese Navy to expand Portugal’s oceanic territorial jurisdiction (EMEPC) and as an Environmental Consultant in the southern African island of Mauritius.
Combined with his fluency in four different languages, his eclectic perspective and broad skill set are a powerful addition to our legal team, enabling us to handle multidisciplinary complex cases with confidence and stand out competitively.
Gonçalo speaks Portuguese (native), English (proficient), Spanish (proficient) and French (intermediary).
Guilherme Lima
Blockchain Technical Consultant
email: gl@mmlaw.pt
Guilherme Lima is an external blockchain technical consultant for MMLaw who help us to liaise the intricate technical issues to the legal analysis we develop in the firm. He has been working in the crypto ecossystem since 2017. He is the co-founder of DREXFY (a Fintech in the blockchain ecosystem) His diverse experience includes cryptocurrency mining, DeFi, asset tokenization and smart contract development. As co-founder of Drexfy and leader of Polygon Guild Lisbon, he also manages technological projects and workshops, standing out for his ability to tokenize assets with Ethereum Virtual Machines (EVMs), recognized with awards in hackathons from the Ethereum Foundation and Ripple.
Also with a background in robotics, Guilherme was an instructor and champion at the FIRST Robotics Competition in Washington DC. He is certified by the NVIDIA Deep Learning Institute in AI / Machine Learning for Computer Vision and serves as a mentor at NOVA SBE's Web3 accelerator.
Guilherme is a versatile professional, specialized in transforming technical complexities into innovative and strategic solutions, especially for the legal and business sector.
Guilherme speaks Portuguese (native), and English (fluent).
Edoardo Furlan Farina
Trainee and Web3 Consultant
email: ef@mmlaw.pt
Edoardo is a trainee lawyer whose qualification is a combination of legal expertise and a deep knowledge of the technical issues regarding the blockchain ecossystem, where he has been a reference for blockchain communities with hundreds of thousands of users in X. He also make presentations for large audiences on this regard. Such combination brings to the table the multiple nuances of the industry, and keep us updated on market trends, enabling us to apply his expertise on the ever changing blockchain legal and regulatory environment.
Edoardo speaks Italian (native), Portuguese (native), English (fluent), Spanish (fluent), French (proficient).