Pedro Cassiano Santos was interviewed by The Diário Económico on 3rd December, regarding the effects on financial advocacy from the direct intervention of the State in the affairs of BPN & BPP.

As far as Pedro Cassiano Santos is concerned, 'The forecasted effect of all this will be that the monitoring work carried out by the rating agencies becomes more water-tight with regard to new transactions or even transactions that are underway at present' and that 'there is a likelihood that the tension and uncertainty currently besetting the markets will increase and, with it the work of lawyers'.