Manuel Santos Vitor
Partner | Lisbon
- Practice Areas
- Corporate and M&A
- Industries
- Energy & Natural Resources
- Aviation, Maritime & Transportation
- Insurance
- Oil & Gas
- Mining
- Projects & Structured Finance
- Languages
- English
- French
- Spanish
- Contacts
Manuel Santos Vitor has been a partner at Abreu Advogados since 2019 and is a member of its Board of Directors. He co-coordinates the Corporate and M&A practice area as well as the Angola and Guinea-Bissau desks. He is particularly active in the Corporate and M&A area and in the energy and natural resources sector, both in Portugal and other Portuguese-speaking jurisdictions.
He regularly provides M&A and corporate support to important business groups, in Portugal and abroad, in a number of business sectors, including corporate governance, family businesses and corporate reorganizations and restructuring. Manuel has a special focus in M&A and contractual related energy and natural resources matters.
Manuel has a vast experience in aviation and insurance.
In recent years he has been heavily involved in the energy sector, in particular renewables and O&G, and natural resources in Portugal and in Africa. He provides regular legal support to companies in the mining sector in Portugal, Angola and Guinea-Bissau.
He has been a lawyer since 1991 and was a partner in another law firm between 1998 and 2019, serving that firm as Co-Managing Partner and Managing Partner between 2008 and 2015.
Experience
Academic
University of Lisbon Faculty of Law
Degree in Law from the University of Lisbon Faculty of Law (1988)
College of Europe, Bruges, Belgium
Postgraduate course in Higher European Studies (LLM) – Legal Studies (1989)