Linklaters Lisbon senior partner and top corporate lawyer Jorge Bleck has left the magic circle firm to join Portugal’s Vieira de Almeida (VdA).

Bleck, who joined VdA this week, has been at Linklaters since 2002 when the firm launched in Portugal with the acquisition of a five-partner Lisbon practice which spun off from top Portuguese firm Morais Leitao J Galvao Teles in 2001.