Pedro Ferreira Malaquias

Practice Areas

Banking and Insurance.

Career

Pedro Ferreira Malaquias is a partner of the firm since 2004 and heads the banking and insurance department.

Before joining this firm, Pedro worked in the legal department of the Banco Português do Atlântico; in the Competition Directorate General of the European Commission, between 1986 and 1988; and headed the legal department of BCP Investimento - Banco Comercial Português de Investimento.

Pedro has over 30 years of experience advising domestic and foreign companies on all legal aspects related to retail and investment banks, advice on products such as repos, securities lending, derivative transactions, including credit derivatives, advice and assistance on negotiating insurance contracts on project finance and structured finance transactions.

Pedro is a legal consultant for the Portuguese Banking Association, and acts as their representative on the Legal Committee of the European Banking Federation. Pedro is also a member of the European Financial Markets Lawyers Group (http://www.efmlg.org/), sponsored by the European Central Bank

Professional Memberships

Lisbon Bar Association.

European Financial Markets Lawyers Group

Member of the Portuguese European Law Association

Member of the Legal Committee and Consumers’ Committee of the European Banking Federation

Member of the former Legal Certainty Group

Personal

Languages: English and French.