António Isóo de Azeredo

Of Counsel | Oporto

Practice Areas
Corporate and M&A
Finance
Industries
Automotive
Desks
China Desk
Languages
  • English
Contacts

António Isóo de Azeredo is an Of Counsel and has been with Abreu Advogados since 2018 in the framework of the existing partnership with C&C Advogados, Macau, which he has been associated with since 2007. He focuses on commercial, banking and financial law.

His experience has focused in merger and acquisition projects and financing projects, as well as advising banking syndicates during such projects. He has consulted on corporate acquisition and restructuring projects involving various jurisdictions in Southeast Asia. He has also advised Clients on licensing projects and obtaining approvals from the Macao regulating authorities with a view to incorporating insurance companies and financial companies and has also advised Clients on conducting their relationship with the regulating authorities as far as the organisations subject to supervision are concerned. He has also counselled insurance and banking institutions subject to supervision as well as casinos and gaming enterprises subject to supervision and regulatory compliance under requirements within the scope of AML/CFT (Anti-Money Laundering/Combating the Financing of Terrorism) compliance. He also has experience in reviewing commercial contracts and advising on and negotiating their terms and conditions.

Work Experience

Advising banking syndicates in various finance projects, involving organisations in different jurisdictions.

Advising a gaming concession promoting casino gambling, which involved a number of financing projects (the most recent of which was in the order of HKD 25.000 million), regulatory matters, and real estate and corporate restructuring issues.

Advising groups of companies and assisting with IPOs on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange.

Advising a life insurance company on company incorporation and assisting in regulatory and corporate matters.

Advising on a multi-jurisdictional project involving the acquisition of a banking business, and therefore, the process of approval of the incorporation of a financial institution, as well as assisting on regulatory and corporate matters.

Advising on a project involving the acquisition of insurance companies in different jurisdictions in Southeast Asia, as well as assisting on regulatory and corporate matters.

Associations

Academic Background

Portuguese Catholic University

Law degree from the Portuguese Catholic University, Faculty of Law Porto (2003)

Portuguese Catholic University

Postgraduate Diploma in Management for Lawyers, Portuguese Catholic University, Faculty of Economics and Management, Porto, (2005)

Portuguese Catholic University

Postgraduate Diploma in Real Estate Law from Portuguese Catholic University (2019)