Mariana Norton dos Reis > Cuatrecasas > Lisbon, Portugal > Lawyer Profile
Cuatrecasas Offices
Avenida Fontes Pereira de Melo, 6
Lisbon 1050-121
Portugal
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Mariana Norton dos Reis
Position
Partner
Career
Her practice both in Portuguese and Spanish law is focused on cross border M&A, joint ventures and private equity transactions.
Regularly acts for private equity investors on their investments and divestments and represents strategic investors in connection with cross border acquisitions and sales of privately owned companies and assets.
She has recently completed a number of major transactions in the infrastructures, energy, retail and financial industry sectors in Spain and Portugal. On an international level, she has extensive experience in advising M&A transactions of multinational companies in Europe, Latin America and the United States.
She worked at the Madrid office from 2004 to 2017 and is currently based in the Lisbon office, where she started her career in 1998.
Member of the Portuguese and Madrid Bar Associations and admitted to the New York State Bar Association. She lectured in the master in Business Law, Cross Border Mergers, at Universidad Autónoma de Madrid and in the bachelor degree in Law and Business Administration and Management at Universidad CEU San Pablo, in Madrid.
Founder and coordinator of the Women in Business (WiB) program in Cuatrecasas and officer of the Women Lawyers Committee of the International Bar Association since 2018.
Lawyer Rankings
Portugal > Commercial, corporate and M&A
(Leading partners)Well regarded for its ability to combine ‘excellent technical expertise’ with ‘quality customer support’, the corporate and M&A team at Cuatrecasas is a trusted adviser to domestic and international clients in the energy, infrastructure, TMT, healthcare, transport, and real estate sectors. The team excels in a wide range of corporate and M&A matters, including private equity transactions. Co-head Mariana Norton dos Reis is noted for her focus on cross-border M&A, joint ventures and private equity deals, while fellow co-head Rafael Lucas Pires, described as ‘calm, creative and reliable’, is a go-to adviser for clients in the media, telecoms, energy, and healthcare sectors. Elsewhere in the team, Luís Miguel Cortes Martins
brings extensive expertise in both domestic and cross-border transactions, having played a key role in several of most significant deals in the Portuguese market in recent years, and João Mattamouros Resende stands out for his ‘responsiveness and excellent command of (matters).’ Francisco Santos Costa is recommended for his expertise in the energy – including renewable energy – sector.
Lawyer Rankings
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Banking and finance
- Commercial, corporate and M&A
- Insolvency and restructuring
- Real estate and construction
- Tax
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