Maria de Deus Botelho

Of Counsel | Oporto

Practice Areas
Corporate and M&A
Languages
  • English
  • French
  • Italian
Contacts

Maria de Deus Botelho is an Of Counsel and has been at Abreu Advogados since 2020, working mainly in the areas of commercial law, corporate and M&A, having developed, in parallel with her professional career, a relevant academic research.

She has an active role in representing national and international clients in various mergers and acquisitions and business and financial restructuring projects, due diligences, joint ventures, real estate investment, corporate governance matters and support for startups, being president and secretary of the general meeting in several companies and collective investment undertaking.

Particularly focused on the French market, she has been intensely involved in multiple transactions, providing legal advice on transnational transactions and on relevant investments involving different jurisdictions and representing national and international investors.

She has an extensive experience in current advisory and transactions in the corporate area in the pharmaceutical and health sectors, catering and distribution, telecommunications, construction, mining and footwear, real estate and services and online commerce.

Corporate Law (2020-2022)

Experience

Advising an international group in the ​​health care sector on the acquisition of a national company for the installation of a new unit.

Advising a national group on the acquisition of a subsidiary in Portugal from a multinational group in the ​​telecommunications sector and subsequent restructuring.

Advising a French international group on the creation of corporate governance mechanisms aimed to safeguard and protect the brand and to deal with situations of conflict of interest between administrators and the respective companies and on the subsequent practical implementation of the created safeguard mechanisms.

Advising a family-owned group on the partial sale to a collective investment undertaking of a national group of companies dedicated to the cork industry, including the transfer of assets, the asset swap and the release of personal guarantees; 2 years later, she participated in the sale of the remaining capital to a French international group and in the concomitant reacquisition, by the family-owned group, of the non-operational part of the group.

Advising a French multinational group in the ​​distribution sector on the expansion of its activity in the national territory, including the negotiation and acquisition of real estate properties for the construction of commercial enterprises, the corporate organization with a view to its exploitation and the dialogue with the public regulatory entities

Advising an English international group in the fashion and online commerce sector in the acquisition of a group of national companies to expand its activity.

Academic

Universidade de Coimbra

Law Degree (2000)

Universidade de Coimbra

Post-graduation in Economic and European Criminal Law (2002)

Universidade de Coimbra

Post-graduation in Consumer Law (2003)

Universidade Católica Portuguesa

Post-graduation in Contract Law (2004)

Universidade Católica Portuguesa

Master in Corporate and Business Law (2010)

Universidade de Coimbra

PhD in Legal and Business Sciences (ongoing since 2014)