BANKS AND FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS

We provide legal advice to banks and financial institutions, covering the full range of operations, products and financial instruments including classic financing, project finance, structured products, setting up and commercialisation of investment funds, guarantees and letters of credit, derivatives, mortgages and consumer credit.

The in-depth knowledge of the matters at issue and the unrivalled experience of the people who make up our team, some of whom formerly worked in the legal departments of credit institutions or financial supervisory authorities, make PLMJ a first choice to provide ongoing support for banking activity, in restructuring operations and in financial regulatory and supervisory matters.

From this sector of activity, PLMJ provides legal support to clients including a number of Portuguese and international credit institutions and financial and investment companies that do business in Portugal.

Besides the legal side of our work and the provision of support in transactions and in the structuring of financial products and services, we have also been entrusted, amongst other matters, with the revision and adaptation of legal documentation and internal processes related to the transposition of EU directives, as well as advising in cross-border banking and financial activity both for Portuguese institutions abroad and for foreign institutions in Portugal.

PLMJ AWARDS

  • PLMJ has a leading firm in Chambers Global 2013
  • PLMJ’s competition team is again named among the world’s best 100 by Global Competition Review 2013
  • PLMJ partners José Luís da Cruz Vilaça, Manuel Lopes Rocha and Vasco Marques Correia named as Antitrust, Intellectual Property and Media Lawyer of the Year, respectively
  • Finantial Times considers PLMJ the most Innovative Portuguese Law Firm in Europe
  • PLMJ is named iberian law firm of the year 2012
  • PLMJ named as best portuguese law firm on Chambers Europe Awards 2012
  • PLMJ lawyers feature extensively in Legal 500 - 2012”
  • Financial Times considers PLMJ the most innovative law firms in Portugal
  • PLMJ partner Luís Sáragga Leal wins European Managing Partner of the Year
  • 40 under Forty Awards - Tomás Pessanha and Tiago Duarte
  • PLMJ on the shortlist for The Lawyer Awards in the categories of Iberian Firm of the Year and Managing Partner of the Year for Luís Sáragga Leal.
  • PLMJ has been shortlisted for an Award for Excellence in Portugal
  • GCR 100 - PLMJ as a world-leading competition practice
  • PLMJ has a top tier ranking in the IFLR1000
  • Luís Sáragga Leal Finalist for European Managing Partner of the Year 2010
  • PLMJ Finalist for Law Firm of the Year: Iberia 2010
  • Winner of International Law Office Clients Choice Award
  • PLC Which lawyer – Leading firm
  • Shortlisted - Chambers Europe Awards for Excellence 2010
  • PLMJ has a top tier ranking in the IFLR1000
  • Winner of International Law Office Clients Choice Award
  • IFLR Recomended Firm
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