António Manuel Barreto Espadinha de Menezes Cordeiro, who also signs A. Barreto Menezes Cordeiro, was born in Lisbon in 1985.
Graduated from the Faculty of Law of the University of Lisbon (2008), received an LLM from King’s College London (2009) and a PhD from the Faculty of Law of the University of Lisbon (2014).
He is a Professor at the Faculty of Law of the University of Lisbon since 2013, where he has taught in the areas of Civil Law, Banking Law, Securities Law, Comparative Law and Commercial Company Law, and at the European University (Laureate Group) since 2015, where he has taught in the areas of Civil Law.
He has authored more than 40 publications, including Da simulação no Direito civil (2014), Do trust no Direito civil (2014), Direito dos valores mobiliários, Vol. I (2015), Manual de Direito dos valores mobiliários (2016) and Direito inglês dos contratos, Vol. I (2017).
He is a founder and member of the editorial board of the Revista de Direito Civil (2014) and member of the editorial board of the Revista de Direito das Sociedades (2014). He is Vice-President of the Consumer Law Institute, since 2016, and was Vice-President of the Brazilian Law Institute in 2016 and 2017. Arbitrator and Jurisconsult.