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Elsa Pizarro Pardal
Senior Counsel

Elsa Pizarro Pardal

Joined PLMJ in 2016.
Senior counsel in the Corporate M&A practice.

About Elsa

Elsa is a senior counsel in the Corporate M&A and Private Equity practices and has more than 25 years' experience.

She focuses on structuring project finance transactions for road and rail infrastructure projects. In recent years, she has worked on some of the most significant privatisation and acquisition transactions in the road concessions, aviation and energy sectors.

Elsa advises corporate clients, including infrastructure concessionaires and aviation companies.

She holds a law degree from the Faculty of Law of the University of Lisbon and completed a postgraduate course in corporate finance at the same faculty.

Elsa began her legal career at PLMJ, where she trained and worked as a lawyer between 1990 and 1995. She returned to the firm in 2016 after working at the law firms J. Henriques da Silva e Associados and Cuatrecasas.

Contacts

Office: Lisbon
(+351) 213 197 300*
elsa.pizarropardal@plmj.pt

*National landlines call

Languages:
English, Spanish

Academic Background

  • Law degree from the University of Lisbon, 1990
  • Admitted to the Portuguese Bar Association, 1990
  • Postgraduate in corporate finance law from the Faculty of Law of the University of Lisbon, 2015

Professional Background

  • Associate at the law firm PLMJ - Sociedade de Advogados, RL, 1990-1995
  • Associate at the law firm Henriques da Silva e Associados, 1995 – 2000
  • Associate at the law firm Cuatrecasas, Gonçalves Pereira, 2000 - 2016

The Legal 500

2026 - Elsa Pizarro Pardal, Recommended | Projects and Project Finance
2025 - Elsa Pizarro Pardal, Recommended | Projects and Project Finance

IFLR1000

2025 - Elsa Pizarro Pardal, Notable practitioner | Corporate and M&A: M&A
2025 - Elsa Pizarro Pardal, Notable practioner | Banking and Finance: Project Finance
2024 - Elsa Pizarro Pardal, Notable practitioner | Corporate and M&A
2024 - Elsa Pizarro Pardal, Notable practitioner | Banking and Finance: Project Finance
2023 - Elsa Pizarro Pardal, Rising star | Banking and Finance: Project Finance
2023 - Elsa Pizarro Pardal, Rising star | Corporate and M&A
2022 - Elsa Pizarro Pardal, Rising Star | Banking and Finance: Project Finance
2022 - Elsa Pizarro Pardal, Rising star | Corporate and M&A
2021 - Elsa Pizarro Pardal | Corporate / M&A
2021 - Elsa Pizarro Pardal, Rising star | Banking & Finance: Project Finance
2020 - Elsa Pizarro Pardal, Rising Star | Corporate / M&A
2020 - Elsa Pizarro Pardal, Rising Star | Banking & Finance (Project Finance)
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