Assunção Vassalo

Senior Associate Lawyer | Lisbon

Practice Areas
Corporate and M&A
Finance
Industries
Fintech
Investment Funds
Banking & Financial Services
Insurance
Desks
Mozambique Desk
Languages
  • Engllish
Contacts

Assunção Vassalo is a senior associate lawyer and has been at Abreu Advogados since 2015. She works primarily on the Corporate and Financial aspects of business restructuring operations.

Assunção has solid practical experience on Corporate and Financial matters, frequently assisting in the structuring of international project finance operations, with a special focus on Mozambique.

She also has experience in matters related to the incorporation of companies, acquisitions, mergers and transformations of companies, as well as investment funds.

Ones to Watch in Portugal, 2024

Work Experience

Project finance advice to the financiers of an LNG project in Mozambique

Project finance advisory to the financiers of a graphite mining project in Mozambique

Advising a Portuguese scale-up on the issuance of bond loans

Advising an international private group on the acquisition of a stake in a company in the wind energy sector

Advising an international private group on the sale of its stake in Portugal, through a management buyout (MBO)

Advising a Portuguese private bank on the opening of a branch in Spain, focused on the savings and investment management business

Advising a private healthcare group on the acquisition of another private healthcare group

Advising a multinational real estate company on the acquisition of shopping centers

Advising an international bank on the acquisition of another international bank in Portugal

Associations

Academic Background

Faculdade de Direito da Unviersidade de Lisboa

Law Degree (2015)

Nova School of Business and Economics

I Executive Course on Sustainable Finance (ESG) (2021)

IE Business School

Legal Tech (2021)

Institute for Law and Finance Goethe University Frankfurt

LLM in Finance (2023)