Isaque is a partner in the Tax practice. With more than 20 years of professional experience, he focuses on providing tax and legal advice in Portugal and in Africa. He acts for both Portuguese and foreign private clients, and clients from the public sector.

Isaque has played an active role in M&A transactions, structuring of domestic and international investments, tax due diligence, and tax litigation.

He holds a law degree from the University of Lisbon and completed postgraduate courses in commercial law at Universidade Católica Portuguesa and in international taxation of companies at the Faculty of Law of the University of Lisbon. He also attended the master's in tax law and the professional master's in financial law, both at the Faculty of Law of the University of Lisbon.

Isaque is an arbitrator at the CAAD - Administrative Arbitration Centre and works with the Institute of Financial and Tax Law of the Faculty of Law of the University of Lisbon.

Before joining PLMJ, Isaque was a Tax and Legal Specialist at McKinsey International, an assistant to the Secretary of State for Tax Affairs of the Ministry of Finance of the 19th Constitutional Government, and a consultant at E&Y and KPMG.

In 2020, Isaque won the prestigious "Forty under 40 - Lawyer of the Year" award, in the category of Tax. This award is given by the magazine Iberian Lawyer.

Bar Admissions
Admitted to the Portuguese Bar Association, 2005

Education
Law degree in legal-economic sciences from the University of Lisbon
Postgraduate course in business law from the Faculty of Law of Universidade Catolica Portuguesa
Postgraduate course in international taxation from the Faculty of Law of the University of Lisbon
Master's in financial law (curricular part) from the Faculty of Law of the University of Lisbon
Master's in tax law (curricular part) from the Faculty of Law of the University of Lisbon

Significant Accomplishments
Chambers Europe
2025 - Isaque Ramos, Up and Coming Tax Law
2024 - Isaque Ramos, Up and Coming Tax Law

The Legal 500
2025 - Isaque Ramos, Recommended Tax
2023 - Isaque Ramos, Recommended Tax
2022 - Isaque Ramos Tax
2021 - Isaque Ramos Tax
2021 - Isaque Ramos Tax
2020 - Isaque Ramos Tax

Other Awards
2025 - Isaque Ramos, Excellent Leaders League - Corporate Tax law
2024 - Isaque Ramos, Recommended Who's Who Legal - Corporate Tax (Advisory)
2024 - Isaque Ramos, Leading Leaders League - Corporate Tax
2023 - Isaque Ramos, Leading Leaders League - Corporate Tax
2022 - Isaque Ramos, Leading Leaders League - Corporate Tax
2021 - Isaque Ramos, Leading Leaders League - Corporate Tax
2020 - Isaque Ramos, Iberian Lawyer of the Year Forty under 40

International Tax Review
2022 - Isaque Ramos, Highly regarded Transactional Tax

Professional Associations

• International Bar Association
  

Professional Activities and Experience
PLMJ partner since 2019
Tax and Legal Specialist - responsible for tax and legal management of projects in Portugal and Africa, McKinsey International (Portugal), 2014-2019
Assistant to the Secretary of State for Tax Affairs, Ministry of Finance of the 19th Constitutional Government, 2012-2014
Arbitrator at the CAAD - Administrative Arbitration Centre
Collaborator at the Institute of Financial and Tax Law of the Faculty of Law of the University of Lisbon, since 2013
Consultant at E&Y Portugal, 2009-2012
Consultant in the Corporate and International Tax Department at KPMG, SROC, 2008-2009
Lawyer at the law firms Azeredo Perdigão and Albuquerque da Fonseca

• State Budget Law Proposal for 2023 Main taxation proposals and other changes

  By Isaque Ramos, PLMJ |October 2022

• The Unshell Directive - Shell companies

  By Isaque Ramos |March 2022