GC Influencers
Most Influential GCs - Portugal
Manuela Simões of Companhia de Seguros Tranquilidade S.A.
Manuela Vasconcelos Simões serves as General Counsel, Head of Legal and Compliance at Companhia de Seguros Tranquilidade. She joined the company in 2015 following a ten-year tenure at Deutsche Bank, where she also led the legal and compliance team.
Market commentators recommend Simões as an influential counsel with key industry experience, one stating: “She is a very good lawyer and knows the sector really well.” Another interviewee asserts that she is “one of the most relevant GCs in Portugal.”
Her impressive skills and accomplishments include acting on complex matters relating to structured finance, financial regulatory, capital markets, investment banking and anti-money laundering, as well as day-to-day corporate issues.
Simões is a law graduate from the University of Lisbon, with an LL.M from the University of Essex in the UK. She also completed a leadership programme from the Catholic University of Portugal.