PORTUGAL Law and Practice Contributed by: Bernardo Abreu Mota, David Oliveira Festas and Francisco Albuquerque Reis, CS’Associados
CS’Associados has a highly experienced, market- leading team that provides companies with expert support in growing their businesses through M&A transactions involving complex and sophisticated le - gal structures. The firm also assists national and mul - tinational corporate clients across all industrial sec - tors with the legal challenges facing their businesses.
This support includes advising on organisational, corporate governance and general corporate mat - ters, as well as new investments and their regulation, particularly in connection with third-party association agreements, including partnerships, joint ventures and shareholder arrangements.
Authors
Bernardo Abreu Mota is a partner in the corporate, M&A, private equity, and restructuring and insolvency practices at CS’Associados. He has extensive experience in acquisitions across various sectors, including
Francisco Albuquerque Reis is a managing associate in the corporate, M&A, private equity and capital markets practices at CS’Associados. He has experience in M&A, shareholder agreements, corporate reorganisations, participation in investment rounds and capital increases, including transactions involving listed companies. He has also advised several asset management companies on various aspects of their activities, such as setting up and structuring investment funds, investments and divestments by funds under management, governance of funds and management companies, interaction with investors and the regulator, sales of fund units and changes in fund management.
financial services, healthcare, pharmaceuticals, industry, retail, tourism and real estate, as well as in joint ventures and other arrangements between shareholders or company stakeholders. He also focuses on corporate reorganisations, advising clients on key legal and strategic business and corporate governance matters.
David Oliveira Festas is a partner in the corporate, M&A and capital markets practices at CS’Associados, advising on general corporate and corporate governance matters, joint ventures, M&A and capital markets
transactions. He has extensive experience in representing investors and leading listed and private companies across a broad range of industries, and regularly handles complex corporate and capital markets transactions, including private equity transactions, business acquisitions, reorganisations and disposals, corporate restructurings, shareholder disputes, initial public offerings and takeovers. David is also a professor of contract law, company law and capital markets law at the Faculty of Law, University of Lisbon.
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