Overview
As Head of Regulatory and Public Law in Lisbon, Maria plays a pivotal role in providing a full service to domestic and international key players, in top tier mandates for complex, large projects in strategic highly regulated sectors, in Portugal and Lusophone Africa, particularly in multi-jurisdictional deals, advising on regulatory, environmental, licensing and public procurement matters.
Her practice spans the full lifecycle of energy and infrastructure projects, from structuring and procurement to financing and operation, with a particular focus on public law and regulatory risk. From her regulatory foundation (non-financial) she intersects almost all M&A and finance deals, providing the oversight of the regulatory landscape to ensure compliance and a strategic public law and regulatory perspective to assist in structuring the deal or the project.
She is predominantly active in energy and infrastructure, involving road and rail, healthcare, telecommunications, water and waste deals, having extensive experience in PPP projects and concession contracts.
Maria is known for her synergistic approach across multiple practices and sectors, investing in a robust multi-sector collaborative environment with clients, the corporate and finance Lisbon teams and other Linklaters offices.
Finally, she is co-responsible for both the Business Development and Corporate Responsibility & Community Investment areas within the Lisbon office. Maria started her legal career in 2006 at the local law firm ATPR - Sociedade de Advogados, where she became a Partner, and after joining CS´ Associados in 2013 to help build its public law department, she joined the Lisbon office of Linklaters in 2021 as Head of the Regulatory and Public Law practice.
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