José Pedro Fazenda Martins, who was up to now head of the Markets and Corporate Finance Department at the Portuguese Securities Commission (CMVM) has joined Vieira de Almeida & Associados (VdA) as Of Counsel for the Capital Markets area of practice, with a focus on equity.

Master in Civil Law and former assistant professor at the University of Lisbon, Faculty of Law, José Pedro Fazenda Martins was also a member of the Steering Committee of the Euronext College of Regulators. He has intervened on the regulator's side in the most important capital market transactions and listings of financial instruments that occurred in the last 5 years in Portugal, including takeover bids, rights issues, securitisations and two business combination involving international Exchanges.