Raquel Azevedo > PLMJ > Lisbon, Portugal > Lawyer Profile
PLMJ Offices
Av. Fontes Pereira de Melo, 43
1050-119 Lisboa
Portugal
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Raquel Azevedo
Work Department
Banking and Finance and Capital Markets
Position
Partner
Career
Raquel is a partner in the Banking and Finance and Capital Markets practices.
In her over 15 years of experience, she has focused on capital market transactions, including IPOs, public offerings for sale and takeover bids, corporate governance of listed companies, acquisitions by private equity funds, listed companies and financial sector companies, and privatisations. Raquel also has experience in setting up investment funds and in financial intermediation matters. She works primarily with listed companies and financial intermediaries.
Raquel completed a postgraduate course in banking, stock market and insurance law at the Faculty of Law of the University of Coimbra and she has an LL.M. in finance and securities regulation from King’s College London.
Before joining PLMJ, she worked in the OTC Equity Derivatives area at Dresdner Bank AG in London, and as compliance officer at BPI Asset Management, BPI Pensions and BPI Life, as well as at other law firms.
Raquel is a member of the Portuguese Institute of Corporate Governance.
Languages
Portuguese, Spanish and English
Memberships
Instituto Português de Corporate Governance
Education
Law degree from the University of Lisbon, 2001
Admitted to the Portuguese Bar Association, 2003
Postgraduate in banking, stock exchange and insurance law from the University of Coimbra, 2003
LL.M. in finance and securities regulation from King’s College London, 2008
Lawyer Rankings
Portugal > Capital markets
(Next Generation Partners)Highlighted for its ability to provide a ‘high quality service’, the ‘experienced and specialised’ capital markets team at PLMJ is well versed in the full spectrum of transactional and corporate governance matters. Counting Portuguese banks, international financial institutions and listed companies among its key roster of clients, the practice enjoys a strong market reputation for its work on IPOs, rights issues and takeovers, debt issues and securitisations. With an impressive track record in complex ECM and DCM transactions on the primary and secondary markets, practice head André Figueiredo regularly acts on big-ticket capital markets deals. Bruno Ferreira is skilled at assisting companies and financial institutions with large-cap deals and complex regulatory matters, while the ‘technically impeccable’ Raquel Azevedo focuses on corporate governance issues concerning listed companies. Gonçalo dos Reis Martins is another key name to note, recommended for his involvement in the an array of capital markets transactions at the national and cross-border levels.
Lawyer Rankings
Top Tier Firm Rankings
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