The ‘excellent’ team at Morais Leitão, Galvão Teles, Soares da Silva & Associados is well placed to assist clients with a wide range of mandates, including project development, investments, acquisitions, and privatisations. Praised for its ’practical and realistic’ approach, the team is a key port of call for sponsors, developers, lenders, and contractors engaged in a myriad of energy projects. The practice is steered by Tomás Vaz Pinto, who is an expert in privatisations. Managing partner Nuno Galvão Teles brings over two decades of expertise in transactions within the energy sector, while Ricardo Andrade Amaro is proficient in corporate, commercial, securities and energy law. Catarina Brito Ferreira is highly sought after by some of Portugal’s largest corporations for her proficiency in M&A, IPOs, and renewable energy ventures.
Testimonials
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‘Most of the work carried out by Morais Leitão had a high degree of complexity due to our own structure. They are an excellent team. Even dealing with complex work, they always kept a practical and realistic approach.'
‘In my view, the team with whom I work at Morais Leitão (M&A, Regulatory Energy) is one of the best teams in the market. They have experience, they have a very practical approach, are great negotiators, and always available.'
'I have 100% trust in their work and that is why I chose and continue to choose Morais Leitão. I usually work with Ricardo Andrade Amaro and Helder Mourato.'
‘In general, the response time, access to digitalisation to resolve issues more common to other clients, promotes a timely and assertive response to the issues that we have taken to ML for resolution.’
Lawyers
Practice head
The lawyer(s) leading their teams.
Tomás Vaz Pinto