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About
Provided by Duarte Brito de Goes
Practice Areas
Duarte Brito de Goes is Partner in the Banking and Finance and Projects practices. He is primarily a transactional lawyer who provides local and cross-border legal counselling to corporate clients, credit and financial institutions and investment funds. With vast experience in structured finance deals, namely project financings of large infrastructure, he has also been very active in the past twenty years in the renewable energy sector. He has been heavily involved in several debt restructurings, security enforcement and insolvency procedures.
Career
Law Degree, Lisbon Law School, Catholic University, 1997. Member of the Portuguese Bar Association, 1999. Associate at Vasconcelos, F. Sá Carneiro, Fontes & Associados, 1997-2004. Managing Associate at Uría Menéndez, 2004-08. Partner at Uría Menéndez, 2008-09. Partner at CS'Associados, 2009.
Professional Memberships
Portuguese Bar Association
International Bar Association
Personal
Languages - English, French and Spanish
Chambers Review
Europe
Duarte Brito de Goes covers an extensive range of banking and finance transactions. He assists with the negotiation of credit facility agreements used either to refinance existing corporate debt or to finance corporate transactions and real estate projects.
Duarte Brito de Goes remains a leading practitioner with extensive experience in energy and infrastructure project finance and also assists with the negotiation of sub-concession agreements.
Strengths
Provided by Chambers
"He is a great lawyer with excellent technical experience."
"He has an excellent level of knowledge, competence, experience, ability to anticipate and solve problems."
"He always responds promptly and very competently to customer needs."
"He is a great lawyer with excellent technical experience."
"He has an excellent level of knowledge, competence, experience, ability to anticipate and solve problems."
"He always responds promptly and very competently to customer needs."