GC Influencers
Most Influential GCs - Portugal
Patrícia Afonso Fonseca of Novo Banco, S.A.
Patricia Afonso Fonseca currently serves as Head of Legal at Novo Banco, leading the team since 2010, when the bank operated as Banco Espirito Santo.
Afonso Fonseca acts on complex regulatory and transactional work and has been instrumental in navigating the bank through different issues the entity has faced in recent times, including its rescue by the Bank of Portugal in 2014 and recapitalisation by a resolution fund.
Market sources highlight her sector expertise and management of complex issues, one stating:“She has deep knowledge of the banking sector and of company law, so she is very well prepared from a technical point of view. NovoBanco has faced several challenges and she has had to implement different transactions in which she’s always been involved as a key person.”
Another interviewee comments: “She has taken up the hard task of advising and leading NovoBanco’s work following the resolution, which was very intense and now as a new operating bank, which is a very hard and demanding task.”
Prior to launching her in-house career, Afonso Fonseca was a corporate finance associate for over seven years at Linklaters in its Lisbon and Madrid offices.