Abreu Advogados

Finance

Partner

Pedro Ferreira Malaquias is a Partner at Abreu Advogados since 2023, working mainly in the areas of Banking and Finance, as well as Insurance Law.

He has intervention in advising on all legal aspects related to retail and investment banking activity, including loans, credit facility agreements, securitizations, covered bonds, non-performing loans, structuring of guarantees, commercial paper and structured finance.

Member of the European Financial Markets Lawyers Group for several years, which is a group of senior legal experts from the EU banking sector who analyse and propose initiatives designed to foster the harmonisation of laws and market practices and facilitate the integration of financial markets in Europe.

He joins Abreu from another law firm where he coordinated the Finance Department and was responsible for the areas of banking and insurance law. Having also worked in the legal department of the Banco Português do Atlântico, in the Competition Directorate General of the European Commission, as well as headed the legal department of BCP Investimento – Banco Comercial Português de Investimento.

Furthermore, Pedro has worked as a legal consultant for the Portuguese Banking Association, and acted as their representative on the Legal Committee and on the Consumers’ Committee of the European Banking Federation.

Portuguese, English, French and Spanish.

IBA

European Financial Markets Lawyers Group

Portuguese Banking Association

Law Degree from Faculdade de Direito da Universidade de Lisboa

Postgraduate Diploma in European Community Law from College d'Europe - Bruges