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Pedro Alves Da Silva

Work Department
Corporate / M&A
Position
Partner
Career
Pedro Alves da Silva is a Partner since 2021 and has been at Abreu Advogados since 2013. He focuses primarily on mergers and acquisitions, corporate law and commercial contracts.
More specifically he advises on corporate and financial matters, provides legal representation, advice and counselling to corporate clients in Portugal and abroad on general matters as well as mergers and acquisitions, spin-offs, corporate restructuring, asset purchases, creating investment vehicles, and private equity funding and venture capital financing.
As part of his mergers and acquisitions work, he carries out corporate and commercial due diligence, and attends to acquisition structure, and the negotiation and drafting of contracts. He has relevant experience in the industrial manufacturing and production sector, and the banking, aviation and transport, real estate, renewable energy, information technology, health, education, automotive and fuel distribution sectors.
He has led several project implementations in Portugal for foreign group companies and headed up multidisciplinary teams to ensure client support in all areas required for successful implementation.
He has also been involved in transactions in Angola and Mozambique, advising and providing support by networking with lawyers participating in the Abreu Advogados’ international network.
Since 2022, Pedro Alves da Silva is a visiting professor at Faculdade de Direito of Universidade Nova de Lisboa (subject: Interdisciplinary Legal Practice).
Languages
Portuguese, English, French and Spanish.
Education
Law degree from the University of Lisbon Faculty of Law (2001);
Postgraduate diploma in Company Law from the University of Coimbra Faculty of Law (2004);
Postgraduate diploma in Banking, Stock Exchange and Insurance Law from the University of Coimbra Faculty of Law (2009).
Lawyer Rankings
Portugal > Transport
Abreu Advogados’ transport practice combines deep expertise in aviation and public law, making it a key adviser for aircraft leasing matters. Praised for being ‘extremely effective and efficient’, the team regularly acts for financiers, leasing companies, and financial institutions in a wide range of matters, from corporate and financing deals to litigation. Nuno Luís Sapateiro, a name to note for aviation and insurance matters, Guilherme Santos Silva, a respected commercial litigator and arbitrator, and Pedro Alves Da Silva, who shines in M&A and investments in the transport sector, jointly lead the team. João Marques De Almeida joined the team from APTS – Alves Pereira & Teixeira de Sousa, S.P., R.L. to further enhance the firm’s aviation capabilities.
Lawyer Rankings
Top Tier Firm Rankings
Firm Rankings
- Banking and finance
- Commercial, corporate and M&A
- Dispute resolution
- Employment
- Energy and natural resources
- Fraud and white-collar crime
- Porto: Leading commercial firms
- Projects and project finance
- Real estate and construction
- Transport
- Capital markets
- Data privacy and data protection
- EU and competition
- Insolvency and restructuring
- Public law
- TMT