Diana Ribeiro Duarte

Practice Areas

Corporate and M&A. Private Equity.

Career

Diana is a partner at the corporate department where she co-heads the Private Equity team and is a leading partner providing Sustainability: ESG and Human Rights related services.

Her legal practice has focused increasingly on advising PE traditional investors and M&A strategic players in PE driven transactions as well, from traditional buyout players (including “take privates”) and infrastructure funds, family offices, and other alternative asset managers, in private transactions (investments and exits), joint ventures and minority acquisitions, with substantial experience in structuring and negotiating cross-border transactions as well as the acquisition and divestiture of corporate divisions.

Diana addresses a full spectrum of legal and business challenges that arise throughout the life cycle of a fund and an asset manager: incorporation, liquidation, mergers. Diana leads also provides regulatory and strategic advice on the implementation of the Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulations and Taxonomy Regulation to asset managers.

Winner in 2021 of the IFLR “Europe Rising Star of the Year”, of the “Women in Business Law Awards Europe – Corporate Rising Star”, by the Euromoney group and of the “Lawyer of the Year – Private Equity” by the “Iberian Lawyer – Forty under 40 Award”.

Professional Memberships

Portuguese Bar Association.

Personal

Law Degree (University of Lisbon School of Law, 2005). Postgraduate Studies in Commercial Law (Católica Lisbon School of Law, 2008).