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About
Provided by Bruno Ferreira
Practice Areas
Banking and Finance; Capital Markets
Career
Bruno Ferreira is managing partner and partner in the Banking and Finance and Capital Markets practices, and he has over 15 years’ experience in giving legal advice in these areas.
He specialises in advising on complex transactions in Portugal and internationally, combining transactional and regulatory advice with advice on financial issues, including project finance operations, leveraged finance and asset based finance.
Bruno has a law degree from the Faculty of Law of the University of Coimbra and a master's in banking law from the Faculty of Law of the University of Lisbon. He is the author of numerous books and articles on banking, corporate and securities law.
Bruno is a member of the Portuguese think tank Governance Lab and of the Portuguese Institute for Corporate Governance. He is also a director of the Corporate Law Association in Review, which publishes one of the most prestigious legal journals in Portugal.
In 2020, Bruno was named one of Europe's most innovative leaders by the Financial Times Innovative Lawyers.
Personal
Languages: Portuguese, English and Spanish
Chambers Review
Global
Bruno Ferreira has extensive experience on both the borrower and lender sides of real estate finance deals, with further activity in corporate financing.
Bruno Ferreira acts on the establishment and update of commercial paper programmes. He also assists with debt issuances carried out as part of securitisation transactions.
Strengths
Provided by Chambers
"He is very accessible and available. He always conveys calm and consideration in the different challenges that operations entail."
"Bruno Ferreira has the capacity to negotiate with counterparts efficiently."
"Bruno Ferreira has great communication skills and responsiveness and comes up with innovative solutions."
"He is excellent. He brings a lot of expertise and structure to the way we operate, based on his deep intelligence and experience."
"He is very accessible and available. He always conveys calm and consideration in the different challenges that operations entail."
"Bruno Ferreira has the capacity to negotiate with counterparts efficiently."
"Bruno Ferreira has great communication skills and responsiveness and comes up with innovative solutions."
"He is excellent. He brings a lot of expertise and structure to the way we operate, based on his deep intelligence and experience."