Fernando Cruz Trinca > CMS > Lisbon, Portugal > Lawyer Profile

CMS
Rua Castilho, 50
1250-071 Lisbon
Portugal

Work Department

Commercial

Position

Partner

Career

Fernando Cruz Trinca is a Partner in the Commercial team.

Fernando works mainly within private law with a special focus on civil law, commercial law, financing law, insurance law, pharmaceutical law, consumption law, and connected litigation.

Fernando provides standing legal assistance to several credit finance institutions, notably in transversal legal assistance to the entire respective activity, including relations with the regulatory entity. He also provides standing legal assistance to several national and international clients, notably in the negotiation and drafting of commercial contracts and transversal legal assistance to the entire respective activity as well as assures the coordination of the clients’ litigation to which he provides legal assistance with the follow-up in court of the most relevant proceedings.

Languages

Portuguese, English, French, Italian

Lawyer Rankings

Portugal > Commercial, corporate and M&A

The ‘very professional’ team at CMS leverages the firm’s expansive global network to advise on complex cross-border M&A transactions and is actively involved in a range of private equity deals, privatisations, reorganisations and strategic alliances. Counting multinationals, private equity firms, venture capital funds, government agencies and domestic companies among its client roster, the team’s broad sectorial expertise covers aviation, healthcare, energy, manufacturing and distribution. Founding partner João Caldeira boasts an impressive track record in private equity transactions, M&A, corporate restructuring, joint ventures, capital markets, and corporate finance. He leads the team alongside Francisco Xavier de Almeida, praised for his ‘hands-on approach’, and Fernando Cruz Trinca who regularly provides assistance to credit financial institutions and pharmaceutical companies. Tiago Valente de Oliveira acts for domestic and international clients in matters concerning M&A, corporate and commercial law. Senior associate David Apolónia is also a key figure in the team.