About

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We advise banks and other major financial institutions around the world on their most significant transactions, with unrivalled insight into the issues they encounter both in normal markets and in the face of today’s remarkable economic conditions and regulatory change.

Understanding the challenges our clients are facing is critical in helping their businesses to thrive. As the market landscape continues to evolve, we are working with financial institutions across the full scope of their businesses, ranging from complex strategic activity through to day-to-day transactional matters. We therefore are able to harness the benefit of having balanced strength in our corporate, finance, regulatory and other specialist divisions to bring together integrated teams across all the key jurisdictions and business lines in which our clients operate.

Our multidisciplinary team in Lisbon has significant experience in advising lenders, sponsors, borrowers and other financial players across the full spectrum of finance and structured finance transactions, including leverage finance, acquisition finance, project finance and real estate finance, as well as on refinancing and restructuring deals and regulatory advice. We also have market-leading experience on bank deleveraging transactions, notably loan portfolio sales and disposals across the different asset classes, including corporate loans, finance leases, real estate loans, project finance assets, consumer loans and mortgages.

Chambers Review

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Banking & Finance - Portugal
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Band 1
What the Team is Known For

Linklaters has a well-respected Portugal team acting on high-profile domestic and cross-border transactions on behalf of key banking and finance players. The team advises banks or borrowers on acquisition finance, with further experience in debt restructuring mandates as well as real estate and project finance. It acts for buy-side international asset managers and sell-side Portuguese originator banks on NPL and REO portfolio transactions, with additional experience acting for third-party lenders on the financing of the same. The firm has notable energy and infrastructure sector expertise.

Work Highlights

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  • Linklaters acted for Azul Empírico on the financing of an agricultural project in Portugal.

Strengths

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Notable Practitioners

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Gonçalo Veiga de Macedo
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Band 2

Gonçalo Veiga de Macedo has standout experience in NPL transactions. He also advises on real estate, projects and acquisition finance.

"He is very much commercially oriented with a deep legal knowledge."

"He is an excellent lawyer who is thorough, detailed and commercial."

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Francisco Ferraz de Carvalho
Head of Banking & Finance
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Band 3

Francisco Ferraz de Carvalho advises clients on a variety of international and domestic finance transactions. He is admitted to practice in the UK and in Portugal, and he attracts further attention for his knowledge of the Mozambique market. He has experience in the financing and refinancing of energy and infrastructure projects.

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Portugal

Banking & Finance

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Gonçalo Veiga de Macedo
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Band 2
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Francisco Ferraz de Carvalho
Head of Banking & Finance
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Band 3

Members

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Bruno Vieira

João Bento

Laura Nunes Vicente

Maria José Sousa Leite

Maria de Athayde Tavares

Teresa Novo Faria

Vera Ferreira de Lima