Luís Roquette Geraldes
Europe Guide 2024
Band 3 : Private Equity
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About
Provided by Luís Roquette Geraldes
Practice Areas
Corporate M&A. Private Equity. Tech. Life Sciences and Healthcare.
Career
Luís Roquette Geraldes is a partner at the corporate and M&A department where he serves as head of Team Genesis and co-head of Private Equity. He focuses on advising founders, high growth companies, and investors on transactional work in venture capital, private equity and M&A. Given the know-how amassed working in technology, life sciences and healthcare, Luís’s practice has become concentrated in IP-rich companies.
With Team Genesis, he works daily alongside founders, investors and scalable emerging companies, helping them on an ongoing basis. His advice covers the full life cycle: fundraising, scaling and exits, mostly cross-border.
Shortlisted for “Young Legal Innovator of the Year” in the 2016 “Financial Times European Innovative Lawyer Awards”.
Winner of the category “Lawyer of the Year - Private Equity” in the 2019 “Iberian Lawyer – 40 under Forty Award".
Professional Memberships
Portuguese Bar Association.
Publications
Luís speaks regularly at conferences, workshops at accelerators/incubators and university lectures on his areas of expertise as well as an author of articles. He is also a member of think tanks and other thought leadership initiatives.
Personal
Law Degree (Católica Porto Law School). LL.M. in Banking and Financial Regulation (UCL - University College London).
Chambers Review
Europe
Luís Roquette Geraldes has a superb reputation for his work both on the investor and founder side of venture capital transactions.
Strengths
Provided by Chambers
"Luís Roquette Geraldes is very knowledgeable about business and he reveals a big commitment to our matters."
"He has very in-depth knowledge of how venture capital works, especially in the Portuguese market."
"He is pragmatic and collaborative. He can reduce conflicts to pragmatism and he has excellent communication abilities."
"Luís Roquette Geraldes is very knowledgeable about business and he reveals a big commitment to our matters."
"He has very in-depth knowledge of how venture capital works, especially in the Portuguese market."
"He is pragmatic and collaborative. He can reduce conflicts to pragmatism and he has excellent communication abilities."
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