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Maria Eduarda Andrade

Maria Eduarda Andrade

Associate Lawyer • Lisbon

Maria Eduarda Andrade is an associate and has been with Abreu Advogados since 2024. She specializes in the area of Finance and the Fintech sector.

She specializes in matters of financial supervision and regulation, advising electronic money institutions, virtual asset service providers, and other financial entities on their authorization and registration processes with the Bank of Portugal.

She also handles financing transactions, particularly in the area of due diligence, and provides ongoing support to management companies of collective investment schemes.

She has experience with virtual assets, particularly in drafting contracts for transactions involving cryptoassets, as well as in reviewing ICT service agreements to ensure compliance with the DORA Regulation, which addresses the digital operational resilience of financial institutions.

She also collaborates on projects related to payment solutions and financial innovation.

 

Practice Areas
Finance
Industries
Digital Economy, Retail & Distribution
Languages
English
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Experience

  • Assisting electronic money institutions with authorization proceedings before the Bank of Portugal.

  • Assisting virtual asset service providers.

  • Drafting contracts related to cryptoasset transactions.

  • Reviewing ICT service agreements to ensure compliance with the DORA Regulation;

  • Advising a credit management entity on its authorization process with the Bank of Portugal;

  • Advising on financing transactions.

  • Advising startups on the development of payment solutions;

  • Advising a credit management entity on the contractual structuring of a transaction to acquire a portfolio of non-performing loans (NPLs)."

Maria Eduarda Andrade

Education

  • Faculdade de Direito da Universidade de Lisboa

    Law Degree (2023)

  • Faculdade de Direito da Universidade de Lisboa

    Postgraduate Diploma in Artificial Intelligence in Legal Practice and its Regulation (2023)

  • Faculdade de Direito da Universidade de Coimbra

    Postgraduate Diploma in Employment Law (2024)

  • Faculdade de Direito da Universidade Nova de Lisboa

    Master in Law and Financial Markets (in progress)

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