Morais Leitão, Galvão Teles, Soares da Silva & Associados

Banking and finance (including private equity financing, investment funds, project finance/ public-private partnerships, project bonds, securitisation and covered bonds).

Filipe Lowndes Marques has extensive experience in the area of project finance, having worked since 1995 on several types of projects, including bridges, motorways, power plants, wind farms, football stadia, LNG terminals and natural gas concessions. He has also been active in the field of capital markets, having advised on several securitisation transactions (including the first securitisation transaction under the new law and the first synthetic securitisation), covered bonds issuances and worked on several IPOs of state owned companies.

Qualified (1997). Partner (2007) and coordinator of the banking and finance department. Lawyer, Abreu & Marques & Associados (until 2001).

Portuguese, English, French and Spanish.

Portuguese Bar Association (admitted in 1997). Solicitor of the Supreme Court of England & Wales (since 2000) (non-practising). Law Society of England and Wales. Oxford Law Society. British Portuguese Chamber of Commerce (President). Lex Mundi (Bank Finance and Regulation Practice Group) (Chair Emeritus).

Law Degree (Law Faculty of the Portuguese Catholic University, 1994). Magister Juris in European and Comparative Law (Oxford University, 1995).