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VdA Offices
Rua Dom Luis I, 28
1200-151 Lisboa
Portugal
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Paula Gomes Freire
Work Department
Banking & Finance
Position
Managing Partner
Career
Paula Gomes Freire joined VdA in 1996. She is VdA’s Managing Partner, in which capacity she chairs the Executive Committee.
Partner of the Banking & Finance practice, Paula has led several transactions, both in Portugal and abroad, mainly focused on the issue and placement of debt instruments, namely Euro Medium Term Notes, commercial paper, preferential shares and hybrids.
She also works in securitisation and other types of asset-backed transactions.
In recent years, Paula has also participated in the recapitalisation of the Portuguese banking sector and on the inaugural application of a resolution measure under the Banking Recovery and Resolution Directive”.
Languages
English, French and Spanish
Memberships
Admitted to the Portuguese Bar Association and the Law Society of England and Wales.
Education
Law Degree, University of Lisbon, Faculty of Law.
Post-graduate studies in English Commercial Law, College of Law, London University.
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Banking and finance
- Capital markets
- Commercial, corporate and M&A
- Data privacy and data protection
- Dispute resolution
- Energy and natural resources
- EU and competition
- Fraud and white-collar crime
- Insolvency and restructuring
- Intellectual property
- Porto: Leading commercial firms
- Projects and project finance
- Public law
- Real estate and construction
- Tax
- TMT