Elisa Summavielle supports companies as they adapt to growth, transformation, and the legal and strategic demands of the fast-changing world of labor and employment. She works at the intersection of employment law and business change — helping leadership teams structure their workforces, manage sensitive transitions, and align incentive strategies with long-term goals.
Clients rely on Elisa when facing difficult decisions about workforce reshaping, executive compensation, or how to classify and contract talent in evolving business models. She has worked with companies expanding into Portugal, advised on equity-based pay structures, defended complex disputes involving platform-based and cross-border teams and handled large litigation on the classification of gig economy workers on multinational platforms. She advises clients across a wide range of industries on how to implement their working models, including remote, gig and crowdsource work, and how to protect those models within the Portuguese legal framework. Her guidance is pragmatic and grounded in the realities of operations, risk, and reputation.
Elisa’s approach combines legal analysis with organizational insight. She thinks beyond legal compliance to help companies build sustainable policies, communicate change effectively, and support internal decision-making across HR, legal, and leadership functions.
She holds a law degree from the University of Lisbon (2006) and a Postgraduate Diploma in Employment Law from the University of Lisbon (2012), and has completed executive training in data protection at Católica Lisbon School of Business and Economics. She has also attended the postgraduate course in environmental law and urban planning at the University of Lisbon.
Elisa is engaged outside the office in initiatives that promote responsible work cultures and legal literacy, particularly in the context of digital transformation and the future of work.