Banking & Finance
Global Guide 2024 : Portugal
Band 1
Contact number
+351 21 864 0000About
Provided by Linklaters
Having successfully completed some of the most complex and high profile deals of recent times, we can offer clients a proven track record of providing the highest quality legal advice across a range of products wherever it is needed.
Arranging banks, funds, lenders, credit enhancers, sponsors and borrowers ask us to advise on international finance transactions across every industry, commercial, financial and governmental sector.
Linklaters’ Lisbon office has extensive experience in structured bank lending, along a range of different products, including leverage finance, project finance and real estate finance. The banking practice also focuses on restructuring deals and banks deleveraging related transactions.
Our practice is a European-level leader, acting in several structuring and financing of industrial, commercial and infrastructure projects in Portugal and abroad, as well as on regulatory matters and sale of loan portfolios.
Our dedicated banks group oversees our work and relationships with commercial and investment banks, across the full range of transactional and own account work. Our team includes specialists in finance and banking, corporate and litigation and we are well-placed on both transactional and own account work. We have a pre-eminent market position as lead advisers to companies in all areas of domestic corporate reorganisations, reconstructions and demergers and the full range of public securities issues.
Chambers Review
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
- Linklaters acted for Azul Empírico on the financing of an agricultural project in Portugal.
Strengths
Provided by Chambers
"Linklaters' team is known for their reliability, knowledge and speed of execution."
"It is a very knowledgeable team capable of handling the most complex transactions."
"Linklaters' team is known for their reliability, knowledge and speed of execution."
"It is a very knowledgeable team capable of handling the most complex transactions."
Notable Practitioners
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."
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.