Banking & Finance
Global Guide 2024 : Portugal
Band 3
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+351 21 030 8600About
Provided by Uría Menéndez
Our team’s experience in business, international finance and banking regulation provides us with a holistic view of our clients’ interests and enables us to deliver pioneering solutions and advise on the full spectrum of financial products and transactions.
Our clients trust us to handle the transactions that are currently shaping the Ibero-American financial markets. We have extensive experience advising on Spanish and Portuguese law, as well as English law through the Financing Hub, a bilateral group created in collaboration with Slaughter and May. Our strong international focus is reinforced by our presence in all the main financial centres (London, New York and Brussels) and in Latin America through PPU’s offices in Chile, Colombia and Peru.
We work with borrowers and lenders (or buyers and sellers in the case of NPAs) to find truly balanced solutions and support the market’s main players (banks, funds, real estate investment trusts, listed companies, large corporate groups, infrastructure and energy funds and asset-management platforms) in all types of financing:
- Corporate finance
- Acquisition finance
- Project finance
- Real estate finance
- Asset finance
- Refinancing and debt restructuring
- Sale and purchase of NPAs
- Direct lending
- Securitisation
Chambers Review
Uría Menéndez is admired for its expertise in the banking and finance arena. It has acted on the buy side of several high-value NPL transactions or acquisitions of loan servicing platforms. It advises on the negotiation of credit facilities in support of residential developments. Uría Menéndez also houses regulatory specialists who are well placed to advise on diverse matters that entail interaction with the Portuguese financial services regulator, including the establishment of new payment services companies in Portugal.
Work Highlights
- Uría Menéndez assisted Banco Santander with the refinancing of a shopping centre in the north of Portugal.
Strengths
Provided by Chambers
"They are very commercial in their approach."
"The team demonstrates a very good performance in complex transactions and a high level of compromise."
"The team offers reasoned and timely responses."
"They are very commercial in their approach."
"The team demonstrates a very good performance in complex transactions and a high level of compromise."
"The team offers reasoned and timely responses."
Notable Practitioners
Up-and-coming lawyer Miguel Rodrigues Leal is able to assist with refinancings and project finance mandates as well as with NPL-related matters.
"He is very diligent in finding solutions, has a constructive approach and tries to find a common ground with the clients. He has good attention to detail."
"Miguel Rodrigues Leal is versatile and available."
Ranked Lawyers at
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