Abreu Advogados

Finance

Partner

Diogo Pereira Duarte is a partner and co-coordinator of the Finance practice area at Abreu Advogados and a Professor of Civil Law and Financial Law at Faculdade de Direito da Universidade de Lisboa.

He works primarily on investment banking law and has been for several years General Counsel and Data Protection Officer of a well-known investment bank in Portugal and its world-wide group of companies.

Developed specialized expertise in advice on the legal implications resulting of the intersection between technology and financial law (FinTech), such as: smart contracts and blockchain; intelligence and quantum; cryptocurrency, cryptoassets, ICOs; innovation and AML/FT; cloud computing; open banking and APIs; innovation in payment services; innovation in financial products / services; start-up financing; crowdfunding; data protection and privacy issues.

Diogo Pereira Duarte is also organiser of periodic conferences on FinTech, Crowdfunding and Data Protection, and organiser and publisher of collective studies about FinTech´s legal matters.

Portuguese, English, Spanish.

Portuguese Bar Association Portugal Fintech Governance LAB

Research Center of Private Law

Law degree from Lisbon University (2000)

Master of Law Legal Sciences from Lisbon University(2006)

PhD in Legal Sciences from Lisbon University (2015)