Paula Gomes Freire, partner of Banking & Finance practice, writes an article for Chambers and Partners directory: "Financial Stability, Flow of Credit and Corporate Debt Reduction - the challenges of 2014", under the same sector.

Throughout the article the partner develops an overview of the banking activity during 2014 in Portugal, highlighting two major events that influenced positively and negatively that year. Safeguarding financial stability and ensuring the flow of credit to the economy and corporate debt restructuring, are the sub-chapters of the article.
"What the August 2014 events reveal is that recovering from an economic crisis tends to be a dragging process, replete with unpleasant surprises", states the partner.