Pedro Simões Coelho

Law Degree, Universidade Livre de Lisboa, Faculty of Law.

Before joining the firm was a partner at J. D’Korth-Brandão, Luis de Morais e Associados–Sociedade de Advogados, a Lisbon-based law firm. He later joined CMVM - Comissão do Mercado de Valores Mobiliários, which is the Portuguese Securities Market Commission, and was responsible for the Collective Investment Schemes and International Departments of the Financial Intermediaries Division.

Joined Vieira de Almeida & Associados in 1998 and is currently partner in the Banking & Finance practice group. In such capacity he has been involved in several transactions, in Portugal and abroad, mainly focused on the advising, structuring and establishment of private equity structures, collective investment schemes such as mutual funds, real estate funds and venture capital funds, and of non-performing loans transactions, asset finance transactions, particularly in the aviation finance field, including financing, leasing, sale or purchase of aircraft, retail banking, financial services, securities’ law and capital markets.

He has also been actively working in advising fund managers, venture capitalists, brokers, banks and other investment firms on a wide range of regulatory and related matters.

Since 2003 has been responsible for lecturing the real estate investment funds’ programme of ISEG’s (Lisbon Management and Economics University) Real Estate Management and Evaluation Post-Graduation.

Admitted to the Portuguese Bar Association and recognized thereby as financial law expert since 2004.

Practice Areas: Banking and Finance, Collective Investment Schemes, Capital Markets, Private Equity

Languages: Portuguese, English, French, Spanish