António Garcia Rolo is a Guest Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Law of the University of Lisbon, where he has been teaching since 2016. He is also a researcher at the Lisbon Research Centre for Private Law, a lawyer and a consultant.
He holds a PhD in Private Law (2026) from the Faculty of Law of the University of Lisbon, an LL.M. (2014) in European Legal Studies from the College of Europe (Bruges Campus) and a degree in Law (2013) from the Faculty of Law of the University of Lisbon. His PhD thesis focused on branches of companies based abroad under Portuguese law, exploring their core framework, sectorial frameworks and the issue of their lack of full legal personality.
His fields of interest and research include commercial and company law, civil and civil procedural law, securities law, banking law, financial law and Fintech law (in particular blockchain and crypto-asset law). He has authored around 30 publications and regularly speaks at courses and conferences concerning these areas.
He is co-principal investigator of the CIDP research project Lisbon DAO Observatory, member of the Editorial Board of Revista de Direito das Sociedades (Company Law Review) and member of the Governance Lab think tank.