Abreu Advogados

Corporate / M&A

Partner

Pedro Alves da Silva is a Partner since 2021 and has been at Abreu Advogados since 2013. He focuses primarily on mergers and acquisitions, corporate law and commercial contracts.

More specifically he advises on corporate and financial matters, provides legal representation, advice and counselling to corporate clients in Portugal and abroad on general matters as well as mergers and acquisitions, spin-offs, corporate restructuring, asset purchases, creating investment vehicles, and private equity funding and venture capital financing.

As part of his mergers and acquisitions work, he carries out corporate and commercial due diligence, and attends to acquisition structure, and the negotiation and drafting of contracts. He has relevant experience in the industrial manufacturing and production sector, and the banking, aviation and transport, real estate, renewable energy, information technology, health, education, automotive and fuel distribution sectors.

He has led several project implementations in Portugal for foreign group companies and headed up multidisciplinary teams to ensure client support in all areas required for successful implementation.

He has also been involved in transactions in Angola and Mozambique, advising and providing support by networking with lawyers participating in the Abreu Advogados’ international network.

Since 2022, Pedro Alves da Silva is a visiting professor at Faculdade de Direito of Universidade Nova de Lisboa (subject: Interdisciplinary Legal Practice).

Portuguese, English, French and Spanish.

Law degree from the University of Lisbon Faculty of Law (2001);

Postgraduate diploma in Company Law from the University of Coimbra Faculty of Law (2004);

Postgraduate diploma in Banking, Stock Exchange and Insurance Law from the University of Coimbra Faculty of Law (2009).