Pedro Cassiano Santos joined VdA in 1989. Partner and Head of Practice of the Banking & Finance, Pedro is in charge of transactions within the financial sector.
He is regularly involved in the provision of legal advice in banking and capital markets' regulatory matters as well as in the structuring of several financing transactions, such as the issue and placement (both national and international) of debt, hybrid and equity instruments, and the issue and placement of warrants and both cash and synthetic financial products.
He has also been actively working in securitization transactions and other types of asset-backed transactions, together with the preparation of structured finance transactions, matters in respect of which he is a regular speaker in conferences and a guest teacher of many Masters and Post Graduate courses organized by distinct Institutes and Universities.
"Outstanding Contribution", Chambers and Partners Portugal Awards 2019
Lawyer of the Year, Best Lawyers - Finance Law - 2017
Lawyer of the Year, Best Lawyers - Capital Markets Law - 2016
Lawyer of the Year, Best Lawyers - 2015
International Law Office (ILO), Clients Choice Awards - Banking - 2011, 2013, 2014
Law Degree, University of Lisbon, Faculty of Law.
Post-graduation in European Legal Studies, College of Europe, Bruges, Belgium.
Guest Professor/Lecturer at the Catholic University of Lisbon (Asset Backed Securities lecture on the LLM and Post-Graduate programmes 2008/2011) and at the Institute for Banking Management (Instituto Superior de Gestão Bancária) (Banking Supervision lecture 2010/2011).
Author of various publications on matters within his fields of expertise, namely:
And co -author of various publications on matters within his fields of expertise, namely:
Admitted to the Portuguese Bar Association and admitted as specialist in financial law.
Admitted to the Timor-Leste Law Society (Conselho de Gestão e Disciplina da Advocacia de Timor-Leste).
English, French, Spanish.
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