Linklaters

Clients recognise the firm as one of Portugal’s first choices for banking & finance, corporate finance (covering corporate/M&A and capital markets), competition/antitrust, litigation & arbitration, public commercial law, real estate and tax advice.

The Lisbon office includes lawyers with a proven track record in some of Portugal’s most demanding domestic and cross-border transactions. Major sponsors, banks and finance houses seek the firm’s expertise in debt offerings, structured finance, major infrastructure projects and syndicated and bilateral lending. Linklaters’ finance specialists in Lisbon are equally at home in the international capital markets as dealing with corporate issuers or sovereign and municipal areas at home.

Nationally based companies and multinational organisations also turn to Linklaters for their key transactions in Portugal. The corporate/M&A team in Lisbon works closely with the firm’s renowned competition, real estate, dispute resolution and tax specialists to offer clients a full multi-jurisdictional service that is unequalled.

Recent significant transactions and cases include advising

• the Joint Global Coordinators and Joint Bookruners on the IPO of EDP Renováveis S.L., an EDP Group holding for renewable energies;
• Banco Espírito Santo, S.A. on its capital increase with preferential subscription rights of up to €1.2 billion
• Magnum Capital and its consortium partners on the acquisition of Babcock & Brown’s windfarm business in Portugal held by Enersis group
• the managers on Caixa Geral de Depósitos’ issue of €1.25bn 3.875% guaranteed notes due 2011
• the Sponsors on the negotiation and award of the DBFO Concession for Túnel do Marão under a €400,000,000 PPP project