Morais Leitão, Galvão Teles, Soares da Silva & Associados

Morais Leitão, Galvão Teles, Soares da Silva & Associados

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Luís Roquette Geraldes

Work Department

Head of Team Genesis - practice focusing on high-growth companies (mainly in tech and life sciences). Co-head of the Private Equity practice.

Position

Luís Roquette Geraldes is a partner at the corporate and M&A department where he serves as head of Team Genesis and co-head of Private Equity.

Career

Luís focuses on advising founders, high growth companies, and investors on transactional work in venture capital, private equity and M&A. Given the know-how amassed working in technology, life sciences and healthcare, Luís’s practice has become concentrated in IP-rich companies.

The work Team Genesis does with emerging companies typically spans the entire life cycle and is mostly cross-border. Helping high growth companies on an ongoing basis (notably when scaling internationally) is a considerable part of what Team Genesis was designed for.

Shortlisted for “Young Legal Innovator of the Year” in the 2016 “Financial Times European Innovative Lawyer Awards”.

Winner of the category “Lawyer of the Year - Private Equity” in the 2019 “Iberian Lawyer – 40 under Forty Award".

Languages

Portuguese and English.

Memberships

Portuguese Bar Association (admitted in 2012).

Education

Law Degree (Católica Porto Law School, 2007). LL.M. in Banking and Financial Regulation (UCL - University College London, 2008).

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