Morais Leitão, Galvão Teles, Soares da Silva & Associados

Consultant.

Ricardo's  activity is mainly focused on financial and insurance, energy and real estate areas, in particular the tax advice of domestic and multinational groups, setting up of investment structures, classic and innovative funding arrangements (corporate, aviation, project and real estate finance), restructuring transactions and others domestic and cross border financial transactions (factoring, leasing, debt and hybrid instruments, securitisations).

He provides regular tax assistance to banks and other financial institutions, insurance companies, asset managers, collective investment schemes, venture and pension funds, securitisation vehicles, and private clients.

Ricardo has been actively involved in relevant tax disputes, notably matters regarding stamp duty, corporate and personal income taxes.

He regularly lectures on post graduate courses and seminars covering taxation matters in Lisbon and Coimbra Faculties of Law. Ricardo has also authored and co-authored several articles in Portuguese and foreign publications.

Portuguese, English, French and Spanish.

Portuguese Bar Association (admitted in 2002).

Law Degree (Law Faculty of the University of Coimbra, 2000). Postgraduate Studies in Taxation (ISG -Business & Economics School, 2002). International Course regarding International Tax Planning – a practical perspective (International Bureau of Fiscal Documentation, Amsterdam, 2009).