Maria Raquel Moreira
CuatrecasasCuatrecasas‘ restructuring and insolvency team is regularly engaged by both domestic and international clients seeking advice on complex insolvency, debt recovery, and liquidation proceedings, as well as debt restructuring and distressed transactions. The practice is jointly steered by Manuel Requicha Ferreira, whose expertise spans banking, finance, and capital markets, and Miguel de Almada, who focuses on litigation and arbitration, particularly in the financial, construction, energy, and telecoms sectors. Elsewhere in the team, Diana Simão Lourenço specialises in complex matters involving companies in trouble, asset recovery and restructuring, while Margarida Leal de Oliveira is noted for her experience in insolvency and special situations, and debt refinancing and restructuring.
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Key clients
- Mutares
- Temahome
- Bank of Portugal
- Novo Banco
- Monarch Capital Partners
- SCC – Sociedade Central de Cervejas e Bebidas
- Explorer Investments
- Deutsche Bank, London Branch
- Davidson Kempner
- Ardent Financial Limited
- Bank of America
Work highlights
- Advised Mutares Iberia on the acquisition of Efacec Group from the Portuguese State (Parpública - Participações Públicas), and its financial restructuring.
- Advised Bank of Portugal on lawsuits brought against it regarding the resolution of BES, namely Oak Finance.
- Advising BCP on the insolvency proceedings of several entities of the Aprígio dos Santos group.
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Manuel Requicha Ferreira, Maria Raquel Moreira