Nuno Bizarro graduated in Law at Universidade Portucalense. In the second year of the course, I aimed to teach at the University. The positive feedback from colleagues to whom he explained the “matter in a simple way” fueled this “very ambitious” objective, as it was seen 20 years ago.

He worked hard and got unusual grades. The first 17 took place in Commercial Law, remembering the employee posting the notes and congratulating him with emotion.

The journey of “a lot of work” and the “affection with which he was received by his teachers” stimulated his taste for learning more and were decisive so that, at the end of his five years of teaching, he was invited to teach. The dream and the goal were thus fulfilled. Maybe that’s why I believe that effort and work are always worthwhile – “in time, things happen”.

He considers that opportunities continue to exist in times of crisis and that “this [crisis] should not be the reason for which one gives up the profession that one dreams of. We have to believe that there is a place in the job market, but it is not enough to believe, it is necessary to believe and do ”.

For 15 years he taught courses such as “Introduction to Law”, “Family and Succession Law” or “Law of Obligations”. In 2000 he joined Sonae Sierra, an international specialist in Shopping Centers, where he started by giving legal support in the international expansion of the company that today has a business presence in Portugal, Spain, Italy, Germany, Greece, Romania, Croatia, Turkey, Morocco, Algeria, Colombia and Brazil.

A cross-border experience that allowed him to “grow personally and professionally” and to “think of Law as an“ opportunity for international practice in very rewarding areas and with lawyers of excellence ”. He also mentions that it was necessary to “strip the idiosyncratic root of law and national culture” and “be aware of the cultural and legal differences in the various countries”.

Speaks Spanish, English and French. He starts his workday at Sonae Sierra’s headquarters, very early because in Greece it is two more hours and you can’t waste time. Currently, he works with the Portuguese and Greek markets.

Despite having worked with several countries with different languages, linguistic obstacles were never imposed. “The” Impossible “is just a barrier that we build in our mind and that if we believe, there is always a way to be overcome!”, He stresses.

He argues that “it is necessary to project very early, to plan, to have the capacity for effort and to fight” and that “today’s sacrifice is tomorrow’s privilege”.

Four years ago he discovered a passion for motorcycles, a kind of “catharsis” that lives between Friday and Sunday. His family and his “mentor” Joaquim Pereira Mendes, Director of Sonae Sierra, responsible for Legal Affairs, Mergers and Acquisitions, and a professor at Universidade Portucalense, are his inspiration. Five years from now “I would like to be healthy to work with the same level of energy and happiness as today”.