João de Sousa Assis holds a PhD in Law from the University of Glasgow, Scotland, where he also tutored Business Organisations. He graduated in Law and holds a masters in Commercial Law, both from the New University of Lisbon, Portugal. Before joining the Iberian law firm Uría Menéndez, where he worked for two years as a trainee lawyer within the departments of M&A, TMT, banking and labour. 

João regularly cooperates with international institutions such as the University of Thammasat (Thailand) or Symbiosis Law School Pune (India), holding the position of Integrated Researcher at IJP – Instituto Jurídico Portugalense research centre (Lisbon), and Research Fellow at the Centre for ASEAN Transnational Studies (CATS) of the University of Chiang Mai Faculty of Law (Thailand).