26.01.2023

Practice Areas: Finance

Industries: Banking & Financial Services, Fintech, Insurance

Type: Abreu News

Pedro Ferreira Malaquias is Abreu Advogados’ new Partner and strengthens the finance law practice area

Pedro Ferreira Malaquias is the most recent partner at Abreu Advogados. The lawyer, with a high national and international reputation for his career, joins the firm’s Finance Law practice area, coordinated by partners Diogo Pereira Duarte, José Maria Corrêa de Sampaio and Rodrigo Formigal.

With this integration, Abreu Advogados reinforces the positioning of its Finance Law team, which has been recognized in the market for the experience of its team and for the work it has been developing with the most recent technological innovations in the national and international financial market and in the advisory of complex financing operations.

With nearly 40 years of experience in legal practice, Pedro Ferreira Malaquias was, until the end of 2022, a partner at Úria Menéndez-Proença de Carvalho, where he coordinated the financial department and was responsible for the Banking and Insurance areas.

He graduated in Law from the Faculty of Law | University of Lisbon, with a postgraduate degree in EU Law from the College d’Europe. He worked in the legal department of Banco Português do Atlântico, in the Directorate-General for Competition of the European Commission, and headed the legal department of Banco Comercial Português de Investimento.

He is a member of the European Financial Markets Lawyers Group, a group of legal experts in the banking sector in the European Union, whose function is to analyze and take initiatives to promote the harmonization of legislation and market practices, and to facilitate the integration of financial markets in Europe.

In addition to the Finance Law practice area, Pedro Ferreira Malaquias will also integrate the Banking & Financial Services; Fintech and Insurance sectors of Abreu Advogados.

“Pedro Ferreira Malaquias’ career speaks for itself. He is one of the most recognized Portuguese lawyers in his area and has a deep knowledge of the banking and insurance sectors in Portugal and Europe, which will certainly be an asset in the counseling and advising of our clients. I am certain that Pedro will have an important contribution in reinforcing Abreu Advogados’ strategy of growth and affirmation as a reference firm for clients and investors, among the main independent law firms in Portugal”, says Inês Sequeira Mendes, Managing Partner of Abreu Advogados.

The new partner of Abreu Advogados is recognized by international directories as one of the main specialists in banking/finance and insurance in Portugal. He has been a member of the “Chambers & Partners” ranking for 17 years and, in 2022, was recognized as Band 1 in the Europe Guide and in the Global Guide in the “Banking & Finance” areas. It has also won important awards in the renowned international rankings “Legal 500” and “IFLR1000”.

“Abreu Advogados has shown over the years a unique capacity for affirmation and growth, with the ambition to keep up with the latest innovations and issues, adding value to its clients’ projects. I am very pleased to be able to be part of this purpose and to contribute to its achievement. The Abreu Advogados’ Finance team includes several renowned lawyers in the area and a very talented new generation of professionals, and I hope to be able to help them create more synergies and support clients at a challenging time for financial markets”, Pedro Ferreira Malaquias, new partner at Abreu Advogados, said.

With Pedro Ferreira Malaquias, Abreu Advogados now counts 41 partners out of a universe of more than 200 lawyers.

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