Victoria Mesquita

Practice Areas

Victoria Mesquita is a seasoned finance lawyer with more than two decades of experience, including sixteen years in the Middle East, with a practice anchored in complex debt restructurings and special situations. She regularly advises financial institutions, investment funds, and family offices on distressed and highly structured capital arrangements, guiding clients through liability management exercises, insolvency processes, distressed-asset transactions, and corporate reorganizations.

Alongside her restructuring work, Victoria has extensive experience in the structuring and execution of sophisticated financing and investment products. She advises on private credit, mezzanine and hybrid financing arrangements, structured notes, securitizations and high-yield capital markets instruments, often involving cross-border elements and bespoke risk-allocation features. A significant part of her practice involves Shari’a-compliant structured products and financing solutions, including sukuk and Islamic private credit structures, where she is known for developing innovative frameworks that align commercial objectives with Shari’a requirements across multiple jurisdictions.

Victoria also advises on cross-border fund formation and the establishment and financing of investment platforms serving regional and international investor bases. Her work includes designing governance and capital structures that support private credit strategies, structured product programmes, and multi-asset investment vehicles.

Across all aspects of her practice, Victoria is recognised for her precision, commercial judgement, and ability to translate complex financing concepts into practical, executable solutions. Her combined experience in restructuring, private credit, structured products, capital markets and Islamic finance enables her to deliver integrated, market-leading advice to clients operating across both developed and emerging markets.