PORTUGAL Law and Practice Contributed by: Benedita Aires and Orlando Vogler Guiné, VdA
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Authors
Benedita Aires is a partner in VdA’s banking and finance practice. She is actively involved in several transactions in Portugal and abroad, focusing mainly on the issue and
Orlando Vogler Guiné is of counsel in VdA’s banking and finance practice, where he has been actively involved in several capital markets transactions, including corporate bonds and
placement of debt and equity instruments and other structured financial products, as well as classic financing. She also actively works in securitisation transactions, covered bonds issuances, other types of asset-backed transactions and real estate financing. Benedita has been involved in public recapitalisation transactions and the application of resolution measures to Portuguese banks, including the incorporation of bridge banks and the approval of the state aid and restructuring plans for those banks by the European Commission.
covered bonds issues, securitisations, liability managements, undertakings for collective investment and derivatives, assisting some of the leading institutions in the financial and non-financial sectors. He also regularly advises on banking capitalisation and resolution matters, and is a recognised author on securities and corporate law matters.
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