Francisca de Landerset

Senior Associate Restructuring & Insolvency , Senior Associate Tax

Francisca de Landerset

Francisca de Landerset joined VdA in 2023. She is a Senior Associate in the Tax and in the Restructuring & Insolvency practice areas where she has been dedicated to tax consultancy and compliance, specially focused on international taxation and corporate income tax. Francisca has extensive experience in M&A transactions, including tax structuring, tax due diligence and tax insurance, providing assistance to both national and international clients, from various sectors, such as energy, communications, technology and infrastructures, as well as to investment funds and private equity clients.

She also has relevant experience in international taxation, particularly in matters related to the application of international treaties and permanent establishments.

Law degree from the Faculty of Law, University of Lisbon.

Master’s  degree in Business Law from Iscte – University Institute of Lisbon.

Course in Strategic Negotiation at Nova School of Business & Economics.

Before joining the firm, she worked as a consultant at KPMG, in Corporate Tax, having previously worked as an associate at MLGTS, as a legal advisor to the Deputy Secretary of State for Commerce, and also as an associate at RFF & Associados.

Author of various published articles in specialty magazines, namely:

  • “The VAT exemption over collective investment vehicles management activity”, in Cadernos do IVA 2017
  • “The tax framework of the termination clauses of employment contracts of football players", in Novos Estudos de Direito do Trabalho, 2017
  • “VAT in sports activity”, in Cadernos do IVA 2016
  • “The municipal civil protection contribution”, in Contabilista (Ordem dos TOC) no. 193, 2016
  • “Work review: Some problems of the succession conflict law by João Gomes de Almeida”, in Revista Jurídica da Associação Académica da Faculdade de Direito de Lisboa, 2013

Admitted to the Portuguese Bar Association.

English.