14 Apr 2026
Antas da Cunha Ecija expands public law practice with integration of AMMC Legal
"Antas da Cunha Ecija has integrated AMMC Legal. Founding partners Isabel Abalada Matos and Isabel Moraes Cardoso and seven colleagues join its public law, planning, environment and energy practice."
Isabel Abalada Matos and Isabel Moraes Cardoso join Antas da Cunha Ecija as partners. Both are founding partners of AMMC Legal, a boutique firm focused on administrative law and public procurement, litigation and arbitration, land-use planning, urban regeneration and zoning, environmental law and energy. Over the years Isabel Abalada Matos has concentrated her practice on planning and land-use law, environment and nature conservation, real estate and tourism, agriculture and forestry, and administrative litigation; she has also advised several members of government and participated in legislative processes. Isabel Moraes Cardoso practises administrative law, planning and land-use law, environment and nature conservation, real estate and tourism, energy, and agriculture and forestry; before co-founding AMMC Legal in 2015 she was a partner at Abalada Matos, Lorena de Sèves & Associados and has held public-sector roles including deputy director-general at the Directorate-General for Spatial Planning and Urban Development and adviser to the Ombudsman.
The remaining members of the AMMC Legal team join Antas da Cunha Ecija from AMMC Legal in the positions indicated: Filipa Esperança, Ana Pires da Silva, Ana Carla Lázaro and Ana Isabel Marques join as counsels; Francisco Cordeiro Ferreira and Margarida Ferreira Marques join as senior associates; Ricardo Reis joins as an associate; and Maria Lunet Soeiro joins as a trainee.
In addition to the nine lawyers joining from AMMC Legal, Antas da Cunha Ecija’s public law, planning and zoning, environment and energy practice also includes existing firm members: partner Jane Kirby; principal associate Ana Luísa Neves; senior associates Cristina Pires Pinto and André Levi; associate Diana Laezza; and trainee Maria Beatriz Caniço.