Tiago Valente de Oliveira > CMS > Lisbon, Portugal > Lawyer Profile

Fielding a ‘solid team with strong knowledge and experience’, CMS draws on the firm’s extensive global network to guide clients through complex cross-border M&A, private equity deals, privatisations, restructurings, and strategic alliances. Serving a diverse roster of clients – including multinationals, private equity firms, venture capital funds, government agencies, and local businesses – the team’s sector expertise spans aviation, healthcare, energy, manufacturing, and distribution. The practice is helmed by a trio of experts: founding partner João Caldeira, who is known for his strength in private equity, M&A, corporate restructuring, joint ventures, capital markets, and corporate finance; Francisco Xavier de Almeida , noted for his focus on special situations, restructuring, and transactions involving distressed assets and NPLs; and Fernando Cruz Trinca, who advises credit financial institutions and pharmaceutical companies. Tiago Valente de Oliveira supports both domestic and international clients with M&A, corporate, and commercial matters. David Apolónia also plays a pivotal role.

CMS‘s banking and finance team is regularly sought out by domestic and international banks, multilateral institutions, and borrowers for a wide range of mandates. The team’s expertise spans NPL transactions, real estate and acquisition finance, structured products, and financial disputes. Leading the team is António Payan Martins, who specialises in regulatory and antitrust matters in the financial sector. Elsewhere in the team, Francisco Xavier de Almeida  is noted for his extensive experience in special situations, restructuring, and transactions involving distressed assets and NPLs, while Tiago Valente de Oliveira maintains a broad practice, specialising in M&A, commercial law, capital markets, and banking and finance.