PORTUGAL Law and Practice Contributed by: Diana Ribeiro Duarte, Pedro Capitão Barbosa and Catarina Almeida Andrade, Morais Leitão, Galvão Teles, Soares da Silva & Associados
Morais Leitão, Galvão Teles, Soares da Silva & As - sociados is a full-service law and consultancy firm in Portugal, with decades of experience in its area of expertise. In addition to transactional work, the firm’s private equity (PE) team specialises in fund forma - tion and regulatory matters. Its PE team consists of two divisions: one dealing with transactional work in which a PE or venture capital player is involved, and
another dealing with fund formation and regulatory work for PE or venture capital vehicles. Aside from advising some of the most sophisticated funds oper - ating in Portugal, Morais Leitão also assists new cli - ents in establishing a presence in the PE sector. The firm’s lawyers have experience in energy and clean tech, infrastructure, banking and insurance, retail and consumer goods, and telecommunications.
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Diana Ribeiro Duarte co-heads Morais Leitão’s private equity team and is an integral member of the firm’s corporate practice areas. She also provides sustainability-, ESG- and human rights-related services in
Pedro Capitão Barbosa is actively engaged in domestic and cross- border private transactions and restructurings (including joint ventures and minority acquisitions, investments and divestments of corporate
connection with the private equity (PE) sector. Diana has extensive experience of the legal challenges presented by setting up and operating private equity vehicles, including the numerous regulatory procedures that they are subject to under EU and Portuguese law. Her legal practice is increasingly focused on advising PE investors on mergers and acquisitions transactions, including share deals, leveraged investments, joint ventures, structuring and executing investment rounds, and exits.
divisions), as well as equity and convertible investment rounds – in cases involving private equity and other private market sponsors. He also has considerable experience working with management companies and fund promoters with regard to the incorporation, restructuring, governance and regulation of alternative investment funds (primarily buyout funds, infrastructure funds, secondary funds and venture capital funds). More recently, Pedro has been involved in the design and implementation of club deals and other alternative investment structures.
Catarina Almeida Andrade focuses on private equity and M&A, particularly cross-border transactions in the technology sector (having also acquired significant experience in venture capital through Team
Genesis, Morais Leitão’s venture capital arm). With an eight-year background in international tax law, Catarina brings strong structuring skills and a multidisciplinary approach to complex private equity transactions, mergers, demergers and fund reorganisations. She advises domestic and international private equity sponsors, and strategic investors, across the full transaction life cycle, including fund structuring and formation.
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