Corporate/M&A
Global Guide 2024 : Portugal
Band 2
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+351 21 030 8600About
Provided by Uría Menéndez
Innovation, experience and knowledge of the market: we understand and anticipate our clients’ needs.
We offer comprehensive advice that takes a multidisciplinary approach, placing our experience across all areas of law and unparalleled working standards at the disposal of our clients. They can rely on lawyers with training in finance and business – as well as chaired university professors of commercial, civil and employment law – to address all legal and business aspects of their activity.
We tailor our teams to each transaction with lawyers from other practice areas to ensure the advice we deliver covers all aspects of M&A transactions, no matter the sector and whether they are domestic or cross-border. Our established presence in finance and industry enables us to provide the highest-quality advice on how to design, implement and execute transactions and achieve business objectives.
Knowing our clients and their businesses means we can anticipate the impact that changes in legislation and case law will have in their field and offer creative and innovative solutions to complex problems.
We invest long-term in our relations with clients and accompany them through each transaction with top-quality advice and a practical, efficient and creative approach.
Chambers Review
Uría Menéndez assists clients with transactions across a range of key sectors such as energy, real estate, infrastructure, telecommunications, further advising prominent international investors. It combines cross-practice expertise to provide comprehensive advice on a variety of corporate matters including M&A and joint ventures, offering additional support on corporate restructuring matters. The law firm remains a strong choice for multi-jurisdictional deals owing to its wide network of offices and alliances throughout Europe and Latin America.
Work Highlights
- Uría Menéndez assisted M7 Real Estate with the EUR126.5 million sale of a logistics portfolio to Blackstone.
Strengths
Provided by Chambers
"The team is very detailed, thorough and pragmatic."
"The team has very good technical knowledge and is creative in presenting solutions for the various scenarios under analysis."
"An impeccable team with very good technical knowledge and fantastic lawyers."
"The team is very detailed, thorough and pragmatic."
"The team has very good technical knowledge and is creative in presenting solutions for the various scenarios under analysis."
"An impeccable team with very good technical knowledge and fantastic lawyers."
Notable Practitioners
Catarina Tavares Loureiro is an expert at handling various corporate deals. She regularly assists clients with share acquisitions, with proven experience in demergers of prominent groups.
"She has very broad business vision and does exemplary technical work."
Francisco Brito e Abreu is often seen advising clients on investments in the agrobusiness sector. He also assists with business sales.
"He does very good work in various M&A mandates, has a great commercial mindset and high reliability."
"He is proactive and knows the matters well."
Antonio Villacampa Serrano is dual-qualified in Spain and Portugal and is well placed to advise on cross-border transactions and add-on acquisitions.
"He demonstrates great leadership in all projects."
Ranked Lawyers at
Uría Menéndez
Portugal
Members
Provided by Uría Menéndez
Duarte Garin
Head of Department
Joana Torres Ereio
Miguel Stokes