Joana Lima Ferreira

Associate Lawyer | Lisbon

Practice Areas
Litigation and Arbitration
Services
Credit Recovery
Languages
  • English
  • Spanish
Contacts

Joana Lima Ferreira is an associate lawyer and has been at Abreu Advogados since 2022, working primarily in the area of ​​litigation in collection, focusing on credit recovery.

She is particularly involved in the recovery of loans from banks and large national credit institutions, as well as insolvency proceedings, company revitalisation proceedings and special payment agreement proceedings.

She advises in the pre-litigation phase, within the scope of out-of-court negotiations, restructuring operations and assignment of credits, and in the litigation phase, by monitoring the entire procedural process of declaratory actions, enforcement actions, injunction procedures, inventory proceedings, precautionary measures, insolvency proceedings and special revitalisation proceedings.

Experience

Advising Portuguese credit institutions on disputes arising from the various products contracted in the area of bank finance, with and without associated guarantees.

Advising the banking and financial sector in the various procedural stages, with legal action and monitoring of the entire procedural process.

Advising banks on mortgage loans and car finance (leasing, long-term rental and retention of title).

Advising a large Portuguese credit institution on portfolio management and analysis of the various credit assignment processes.

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Education

Faculdade de Direito da da Universidade de Lisboa

Law degree (2016)

Faculdade de Direito da Universidade de Lisboa

Masters in Law and Legal Practice (2020)