Diana Ribeiro Duarte

Practice Areas

Corporate and M&A. Private Equity.

Career

Diana Ribeiro Duarte is a partner at the corporate department where she co-heads the private equity team and is one of the team members providing ESG related services in connection with the PE sector.

Her legal practice has focused increasingly on advising PE investors and M&A strategic players, from traditional buyout players (including “take privates”) and infrastructure funds, to pension funds, family offices, and other alternative asset managers, in private transactions (investments and exits), joint ventures and minority acquisitions. Diana has also substantial experience in structuring and negotiating cross-border transactions as well as the acquisition and divestiture of corporate divisions.

On the fund formation front, she addresses a full spectrum of legal and business challenges that arise throughout the life cycle of a fund (incorporation, liquidation, mergers). In her experience, she has already set up and approved an ESG venture capital fund under Article 8 of the European regulation on disclosure of information relating to sustainability in the financial sector.

She advises clients ranging from first-time fund sponsors to large institutional asset managers across a variety of asset classes and investment areas, including buyout funds, infrastructure, power, and energy funds, secondary funds, and venture capital funds.

Winner in 2021 of the IFLR “Europe Rising Star of the Year”, of the “Women in Business Law Awards Europe – Corporate Rising Star”, by the Euromoney group and of the “Lawyer of the Year – Private Equity” by the “Iberian Lawyer – Forty under 40 Award”. She is ranked by IFLR1000 (Capital markets and Corporate M&A) and by Best Lawyers (Corporate).

Professional Memberships

Portuguese Bar Association.

Personal

Law Degree (University of Lisbon School of Law, 2005). Postgraduate Studies in Commercial Law (Católica Lisbon School of Law, 2008).