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Claudia Santos Cruz
Europe Guide 2024
Band 2 : Transportation: Shipping
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About
Provided by Claudia Santos Cruz
Practice Areas
Banking & Finance; Projects; Oil & Gas; Mining; Corporate M&A; Infrastructure; Ports, Shipping.
Career
LLB University of Southampton, England, 1993; LPC College of Law Guildford, England, 1994; Post Graduate courses in Banking and Finance, Corporate, Oil & Gas; International Petroleum Transactions module of LMM, Lisbon, 2017; Previously at DLA Piper and Watson Farley & Williams in London, London, 1994-2005; IBA Oil & Gas Committee Officer, 2021.
Professional Memberships
Admitted to practice: Law Society of England and Wales (1996); Portuguese Bar Association (2005); Mozambique Bar Association (2018); International Bar Association Officer (2007-2022).
Personal
Claudia Santos Cruz advises clients on the international and cross border aspects of their investments in Portugal and Lusophone Africa. She is co-head of the Lusophone Africa practice team at Morais Leitão which is dedicated to transactions and advising international clients investing in these markets. Claudia works on a daily basis with ML Legal Circle integrated law firms in Angola, Mozambique and Cape Verde and she is herself a member of the MDR Advogados team in Mozambique. Claudia coordinates the international Oil & Gas team and Shipping practice at ML and is also a member of the international Banking & Finance department.
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