Inês Albuquerque e Castro joined Eversheds Sutherland in 2015 and became a Partner in 2017.

Inês has over 20 years of experience in the employment and social security area, advising the legal departments and/or the HR departments of several domestic and international companies from different sectors, on a regular basis.

Her practice predominantly consists in participating in the labour law issues that arise in collective recruitment processes, restructuring, collective dismissals, transfers of undertakings and other forms of business reorganization. She also advocates for her corporate clients in litigation processes for several labour matters and assists and defends such clients in disciplinary and misdemeanour proceedings against labour authorities.

She was involved in the preparation, drafting and publication of the 2003 Labour Code.

She is a regular speaker at conferences, seminars and workshops about Labour Law.