Diogo Pereira Duarte

Legal advice on authorizations and licensing on the banking and insurance sectors, both in Portugal and Mozambique. Establishment of branches and passport notifications within the European Union. Legal advice on authorization of qualifying holdings, both in Portugal and Mozambique.

Legal advice on the regulatory and contractual aspects of financial technology, which includes the first digital onboarding process in Portugal and the first aggregation service for payment accounts and financial instruments. Legal advice on robo-advisory, white label trading platforms, investment fund distribution platforms (Allfunds); overnight and structured deposits distribution platforms; platforms for companies’ capitalization, among others.

Legal advice on corporate events of credit institutions related to option plans and remuneration plans with subscription of special categories of redeemable preferred shares, including the in the regulatory dimension. Advise on Bank capitalization plans in Mozambique to comply with capital requirements.

Legal advice on all aspects of credit institution internal governance, from corporate governance (including conducting fit and proper authorization processes, fit and proper policies, remuneration policies, conflict of interests policies, outsourcing policies (including cloud computing), codes of conduct, internal audit framework(, under national and European regulatory requirements.

Advising on foreign direct investment in the financial sector in Mozambique.

Advising a financial institution on the adaptation of contractual instruments and internal policies to integrate the MiFID II regulatory requirements and related acts, and legal advice on all financial intermediation activity, including execution only, placement and underwriter agreements, portfolio management (including unit-linked and PPPs), investment advice, fund depositary, among others.

Legal and regulatory due diligence and contractual drafting in FinTech start-up funding cycles.