About

Banco Santander Consumer Portugal provides commercial banking, auto and vehicle loan financing, leasing, and long-term rental receivables to individuals and companies. It has a team of approximately 200 professionals and a solid commercial network closer to each point of sale, offering a quality service. Nuno Moraes Bastos currently leads legal, compliance and company secretariat teams for Santander Consumer in Portugal, in his role of chief legal and compliance officer. Before embracing his current remit in October 2017, Bastos had the role of general counsel and chief compliance officer at Zurich Insurance Portugal, handling legal, regulatory, compliance and governance matters regarding the activity undertaken by Zurich’s legal entities in the country. His background also comprises commercial banking (Banco Invest), asset management (Banif Gestão de Activos), as well as prestigious law firms in his time doing private practice (Simmons & Simmons Rebelo de Sousa). According to a nominator, he is ‘consistently recognised for his technical skills and leading capabilities, praised by his peers as the trend setter and by regulators as the go-to manager for a more strategic and forward-looking view on regulatory affairs. He is also recognised by the business acumen he frequently brings to the table’. The talented legal team at Banco Santander Consumer Portugal also includes senior legal counsel Filipe Ravara, an experienced lawyer who joined the company in 2017 and holds an LLM focused on banking, corporate, finance, and securities law from Queen Mary University of London.