Born in 1987, in Porto and graduated from the Faculty of Law of Universidade Católica Portuguesa, Porto, in 2009.

Concluded the LLM in Commercial and Corporate Law at Queen Mary University of London in 2011, focusing her area of expertise in M&A.

Trainee at Telles de Abreu & Associados - Sociedade de Advogados, RL, where she also worked as Associate Lawyer in the Corporate Law Department.

Between 2013 and 2017, she worked as in-house at BA Glass Group, having led, from a legal standpoint, the Group's growth process to the different geographies it operates.

Mariana began her collaboration at PLEN in June 2017, working predominantly in the areas of commercial and corporate law, M&A and data protection.

She is a member of the Portuguese Bar Association since January 2013 and also holds an executive degree in Management from Católica Porto Business School.