David Oliveira Festas

Practice Areas

Capital Markets; Commercial and Corporate; Mergers and Acquisitions

Career

David Oliveira Festas is a Partner in the Corporate, M&A and Capital Markets practices. He advises on general corporate and corporate governance matters, joint ventures, M&A and capital markets transactions. He has extensive experience representing investors and leading listed and private companies across a broad range of industries and regularly handles complex corporate and capital markets transactions, including private equity transactions, business acquisitions, reorganisations and disposals, corporate restructurings, shareholder disputes, initial public offerings and takeovers. He is also Professor of Contract Law, Company Law and Capital Markets Law at the Faculty of Law, University of Lisbon.

Professional Memberships

Portuguese Bar Association

International Bar Association

Personal

2001: Law Degree, Faculty of Law, University of Lisbon

2006: Master's Degree in Civil Law, Faculty of Law, University of Lisbon

2017: PhD in Company Law at the Faculty of Law, University of Lisbon