Daniela Guimarães (born 1991), Senior Associate at Antas da Cunha Ecija & Associates, Law Firm, RL since 2020.

Daniela took her Law Degree at the School of Law of the University of Minho. Postgraduate in European Union Law from the same school and, also from International and European Economic Criminal Law by the Faculty of Law of the University of Coimbra. She also attended courses in International Criminal Law at the University of Salzburg in Austria and Advanced European Law at King’s College London in the United Kingdom. From 2013 to 2014, he was President of ELSA Portugal – The European Law Student’s Association, a European association with presence in over 40 countries.

She began her career at Magellan – European Affairs Consulting, with offices in Porto and Brussels, as a consultant in the areas of the energy and forestry industries and, consequently, worked to represent the interests of various Portuguese companies and clusters within the European Institutions.

Collaborated with Vieira Advogados from 2015 to 2020. First, as a consultant and then, as lawyer and, later, partner. In this firm, Daniela developed her activity by coordinating the department of financial litigation and taking the lead in several national and international case laws, namely, in defense of qualified investors, in partnership with international offices. Most recently, she has represented fintechs in the process of regulating digital financial activities with national and European regulators and supervisors.

Since 2013 she has been a member of CEDU – Center for Studies in European Union Law at the University of Minho.

Preferred practice areas are Financial Litigation, European and International Union Law, Regulation and Policy Making.