Ana Sofia Batista

Practice Areas: Corporate and M&A; Finance

Industries: Private Equity & Venture Capital; Fintech; Investment Funds; Projects & Structured Finance; Defence and Homeland Security; Banking & Financial Services

Desks: Mozambique Desk; German Desk

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Ana Sofia Batista is a Partner whose practice focuses on Corporate and M&A in Portugal. She works primarily on business restructuring operations and acquisitions, as they relate to corporate structures, contracts and financing.

Her practice focuses particularly on matters related to acquisitions, mergers, spin-offs, liquidity inflows or share swaps, and specifically Corporate and M&A in Portugal, private equity transactions and project finance transactions.

As co-coordinator of the Mozambique Desk, she has been heavily involved in investment operations in that country, providing legal advice and liaising with local lawyers within Abreu Advogados’ international network.

She has extensive experience in advising on transactions is the health, transport, food and finance sectors, as well as on corporate housekeeping for national and multinational companies in various sectors of the economy.

She has also lectured in areas connected with corporate and finance law in universities, professional organizations and seminars.

Ana Sofia Batista was Chair of the Legal and Regulatory Committee of Invest Europe, the European venture capital association that represents companies from the private equity, venture capital and infrastructure investment sectors in Europe and their investors, for the 2023-2024 term.

Ana Sofia Batista joined Abreu Advogados in 1996.

Global Leader, Private Funds – Formation, 2022

Recommended Lawyer, Banking & Finance (2021-2022)

Recommended Lawyer, M&A (2021-2022)

Corporate Law, Portugal (2021-2022)

Banking & Finance – Highly Regarded, 2021

Experience

Advising two international finance groups on the acquisition of two reputable financial institutions in Portugal, including corporate and commercial due diligence, corporate structuring and drafting of contracts

Advising an international group in the food sector on the acquisition of a company within the same sector in Portugal, including corporate structuring, corporate and commercial due diligence, and drafting of contracts

Advising a competing entity on the privatisation process in respect of an air transport company, including corporate and commercial due diligence, corporate structuring and drafting of contracts

Advising a group of clinical laboratories in Portugal on the acquisition of shares in companies and on the internal restructuring processes of the group, including corporate and commercial due diligence, corporate structuring and drafting of contracts

Advising a company connected to the biomedical sciences area as of its incorporation in private equity financing rounds including, together with the European Investment Bank, corporate and commercial due diligence, corporate structuring and drafting of contracts

Advising a national group in the health sector on the acquisition of companies within the sector and business expansion and restructuring, including corporate and commercial due diligence, corporate structuring and drafting of contracts

Advising a French group in the aviation sector on the acquisition of companies within the sector, including corporate and commercial due diligence, corporate structuring and drafting of contracts

Advising an international real estate group on the acquisition of a leading company and property in Portugal, including corporate and commercial due diligence, corporate structuring and drafting of contracts

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Ana Sofia Batista

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Education

Faculdade Direito da Universidade Católica Portuguesa

Faculdade de Direito da Universidade de Lisboa

Faculdade de Direito da Universidade de Lisboa

King’s College London

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