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João Lupi
Work Department
Finance, Public Law
Position
Senior Associate Lawyer
Career
João Lupi is a senior associate at Abreu Advogados since 2022, working mainly in the areas of Finance and Projects, with intervention in investment and financing transactions.
His career has been notable for the work carried out in providing strategic legal advice and support in the areas of Finance and Projects, M&A and Capital Markets.
He has intervention in projects, transactions and national and cross-border financing, with special emphasis in Europe, West Africa and Brazil and in the banking, energy and natural resources sectors, regularly assisting Investment Companies, Collective Investment Schemes and Management Entities, in particular venture capital.
He advises leading companies in their sectors of activity, financial entities and public authorities, in various types of transactions, markets and products, interacting with the respective regulatory authorities.
He is registered with the Portuguese and Brazilian Bar Associations.
Between 2017 and 2019, he performed functions as Deputy Director and Head of Legal Affairs of the Holding Company of a financial group, based in Luxembourg.
Languages
Portuguese, English, Spanish, French and Italian
Memberships
Portuguese Bar Association
Brazilian Bar Association
IBA – International Bar Association
Education
Law Degree from Faculdade de Direito, Universidade de Lisboa (2010)
Master in Legal and Business Sciences from Faculdade de Direito, Universidade Nova de Lisboa (2013)
Postgraduate Diploma in Energy Law from Instituto de Ciências Jurídico-Políticas da Faculdade de Direito da Universidade de Lisboa (2022)
Lawyer Rankings
Portugal > Projects and project finance
Standing out for its ‘acute and detailed knowledge of the market‘, Abreu Advogados
plays a key role in national and international projects in the energy, natural resources, oil and gas, and transport sectors. Bringing together expertise in public law and financing matters, the firm is equipped to advise on project finance and the establishment of joint ventures and other co-development agreements, as well as related regulatory issues and litigation. Co-head Mafalda Teixeira de Abreu primarily handles public procurement, investment contracts and administrative litigation, while Manuel Santos Vítor has an impressive track record in projects in the renewables, oil and gas, and natural resources sectors. ‘The team was recently reinforced with experienced members‘ who joined from TELLES in November 2o22, including Bruno Azevedo Rodrigues, who ‘reveals, with his advice, decades of accumulated experience in high CapEx sectors‘, namely energy and natural resource sectors, and senior associate João Lupi.
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
- Data privacy and data protection
- EU and competition
- Insolvency and restructuring
- Public law
- TMT
- Capital markets