
Energy & Natural Resources (International)
Europe Guide 2026 : Portugal
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About
Provided by Cuatrecasas
Team of lawyers with a high level of expertise, ample experience and excellent knowledge of the energy sector.
We offer a comprehensive service covering all areas of energy law. The team’s size and high level of expertise ensures a professional and effective advisory service in both administrative and regulatory matters in the strictest sense—regulatory measures of a general scope, such as drafting and appealing regulations, projects, authorizations and administrative procedures, and access conflicts—as well as in the context of corporate transactions (mergers and acquisitions and joint ventures) and the financing of projects and contracts in the energy sector (PPA, infrastructure sharing, electricity supply and route-to-market).
We also represent clients in all types of appeals and legal proceedings.
Our team has extensive experience in advising energy companies and applies a cross-sectoral approach that extends to all areas of the sector (conventional energy, renewable energy, oil and gas, and nuclear power plants) and to the different branches of business, e.g., production, distribution and marketing. We have excellent knowledge of our clients’ businesses and are always up to date with new trends in the energy market, such as revamping, hybridization, energy storage, self-consumption, closed networks and renewable gas projects.
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Work Highlights
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Cuatrecasas advised CS Wind on the Porto de Aveiro public tender to build industrial facilities to produce materials for the wind energy sector. The project is valued at EUR400 million.
Strengths
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Cuatrecasas has extensive knowledge of the Iberian energy market and the technical characteristics of the different sources of electricity generation. It also offers a high standard of service level and prompt responses.
Energy & Natural Resources (International) respondentEuropeCuatrecasas has an in-depth view of the sector and its critical and crucial points of analysis.
Energy & Natural Resources (International) respondentEuropeCuatrecasas has a team that is very competent and with experts in the sector.
Energy & Natural Resources (International) respondentEuropeCuatrecasas has a multidisciplinary team that provides insight into the impacts of any decision in the most diverse areas.
Energy & Natural Resources (International) respondentEurope
Notable Practitioners
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Band 5 
Band 5 
Francisco Santos Costa
Francisco Santos Costa has significant experience across a broad spectrum of transactional and regulatory issues as well as on project developments in the sector. He regularly advises foreign investors in the sector, with a particular emphasis on renewable energy transactions. Francisco Santos Costa is an all-round player. He knows the market and provides us with useful knowledge and advice.
Energy & Natural Resources (International) respondentEurope
Ranked Individuals at Cuatrecasas (1)
Members
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Manuel Requicha Ferreira

Lourenço Vilhena de Freitas
Head of Department

Mariana Norton dos Reis

Cuatrecasas has rankings in the following guides
Band 1 Europe 2026
Practice area: Energy & Natural Resources
Location: Spain
View department profile for Europe 2026Band 1 Global 2026
Practice area: Energy & Natural Resources
Location: Spain
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