Morais Leitão, Galvão Teles, Soares da Silva & Associados is highly regarded among lenders, developers, public entities, sponsors and contractors for its multidisciplinary expertise across infrastructure projects spanning energy, transport, TMT, and real estate. The team stands out for its strong capabilities in project finance, but is well placed to advise on the full lifecycle of projects in Portugal and Lusophone Africa. Filipe Lowndes Marques heads up the project finance arm of the practice, while Catarina Brito Ferreira advises a wide range of stakeholders on M&A transactions and project development in the renewable energy sector. Margarida Olazabal Cabral brings extensive knowledge of public and administrative law. Filipa Morais Alçada is particularly active in the financing of renewable energy projects, and Cláudia Castanheira Dos Santos is noted for her experience in project finance involving road concessions, renewable energy and residential real estate ventures.
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Work Department
Banking and finance (including private equity financing, investment funds, project finance/ public-private partnerships, project bonds, securitisation and covered bonds).
Position
Filipe Lowndes Marques has extensive experience in the area of project finance, having worked since 1995 on several types of projects, including bridges, motorways, power plants, wind farms, football stadia, LNG terminals and natural gas concessions. He has also been active in the field of capital markets, having advised on several securitisation transactions (including the first securitisation transaction under the new law and the first synthetic securitisation), covered bonds issuances and worked on several IPOs of state owned companies.
Career
Qualified (1997). Partner (2007) and coordinator of the banking and finance department. Lawyer, Abreu & Marques & Associados (until 2001).
Languages
Portuguese, English, French and Spanish.
Memberships
Portuguese Bar Association (admitted in 1997). Solicitor of the Supreme Court of England & Wales (since 2000) (non-practising). Law Society of England and Wales. Oxford Law Society. British Portuguese Chamber of Commerce (President). Lex Mundi (Bank Finance and Regulation Practice Group) (Chair Emeritus).
Education
Law Degree (Law Faculty of the Portuguese Catholic University, 1994). Magister Juris in European and Comparative Law (Oxford University, 1995).
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‘Extremely efficient and dedicated team.’
‘Filipa Morais Alçada is extremely dedicated, and her communication is very good.’