IFLR1000 Women Leaders is an elite ranking category reserved for the most prominent women lawyers across the world working in the areas of law IFLR1000 researches. This is an exclusive group of lawyers with outstanding reputations within their markets who either have expertise and experience of working on complex deals, or who have risen to hold leadership roles with their firms or their practices. For some individuals both these things are true.
"They showed a level of expertise, were available and were committed."
"Excellent legal knowledge, with a focus on client services and achieving desired results. They consistently met deadlines and developed creative solutions to solve problems."
"Proactive, with a deep local expertise, highly commercial, and take long term partnership view on relationships."
The firm is a leader across the market achieving top tier status in all ranked practice areas in Portugal. The firm has also developed a specialism for working with clients connected to banking and financial services.
During the research period the firm was active in banking, debt capital markets, equity capital markets, structured finance and securitisation capital markets, M&A, project development, project finance and restructuring and insolvency.
In banking the firm worked on a variety of lending and financial and debt restructuring for clients connected with banking, financial services and real estate.
Key clients
In banking the firm has developed relationships with ABSA Bank Mozambique, Altamira Asset Management Portugal, Unipessoal, Arrow Global, Banco de Portugal, Banco Invest, BNP Paribas, Caixa Geral de Depósitos, Citibank International, Citizenergy 2.0 Project, Hefesto, Whitestar, Asset Solutions and JP Morgan Chase Bank.
Deal highlights: 31st edition
Hikma Pharmaceuticals $200 million loan
Libbey Glass Group $400 million loan
Portuguese rescue loan and acquisition of Transportes Aéreos Portugueses shares
Banking:
Banking and Finance: