Sérvulo & Associados

Finance and Governance

Partner in the Finance and Governance department.

At SÉRVULO since 2025, Francisco Soares Machado is a partner in the Finance and Governance department. He holds a postgraduate degree in Securities Law from the Faculty of Law of the University of Lisbon, obtained in 2010, and a Master's degree (LLM) in Corporate/Commercial Law from the London School of Economics and Political Science, obtained in 2009. He graduated in Law from the Faculty of Law of the New University of Lisbon in 2008. Previously, he was a principal associate and senior associate at the law firm Cuatrecasas between 2018 and 2025, having previously been an advisor to the Vice-President of the European Investment Bank between 2015 and 2018 and an adviser to the Minister of State and Finance of the 19th Constitutional Government between 2012 and 2015. He began his career as a lawyer at the same firm in 2009. He has completed the CFA Level 1 exam and is registered, in addition to the Bar Association, with the Law Society of England and Wales as a solicitor.

He was a member of the Legal Committee of the Portuguese Institute of Corporate Governance and is currently a member of the Governance Lab think tank. He is a guest lecturer on banking, investment services and collective investment undertakings in postgraduate and intensive courses at the University of Lisbon. He is also a trainer at the Banking Training Institute and the author of several articles and publications on banking law and corporate finance.

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