Morais Leitão, Galvão Teles, Soares da Silva & Associados

Banking and Finance, Project Finance.

Partner

André de Sousa Vieira joined the firm in 2020 as a partner.

He has previously worked for a decade in the Energy and Infrastructure team (Worldwide Projects Group) at Clifford Chance LLP (London), where he co-headed both the Portuguese and the Lusophone Africa practices.

He is particularly recognised for advising complex syndicated loans, sovereign debt, asset finance, export-credit and international project finance transactions in the energy, natural resources and infrastructure sectors, having represented lenders (DFIs, ECAs and commercial banks), sponsors and governments.

LLB (Portuguese Catholic University). LLM in International Business Law (Pompeu Fabra University). MSc in Financial Economics (University of Barcelona). Prae-Doc Visiting Researcher (Harvard Law School). PhD in International Finance Law (University of Barcelona)