José Costa Pinto is the founding partner of Costa Pinto where he specializes in commercial and corporate law issues and has extensive experience in corporate restructuring, M&A and private equity transactions. He is also Member of the Board of the Portuguese Compliance and Regulatory Observatory and of the Board of the Corporate Governance Portuguese Institute.

José Costa Pinto is also Vice-Chairman of the Board of the General Meeting of Galp SGPS, S.A., since May 2023, and Secretary of the Board of the General Meeting of Sporting Clube de Portugal, since 2018. He is also Chairman of the Board of the General Meeting of several companies and investment funds.

He was President of the National Association of Portuguese Young Lawyers (ANJAP) between 2014 and 2018.

Before founding Costa Pinto Advogados, José Costa Pinto worked for Uría Menéndez – Proença de Carvalho and Simmons & simmons. He has also been author and co-author of several technical articles and speaker at conferences and public events.

José is a native Portuguese speaker and is fluent in English and Spanish.