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Duarte Schmidt Lino

PLMJ

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Position: Partner
Rating:
  • Market leader
Bar Admissions:
Portugal
Practice Areas:
Investment funds
Private equity
Jurisdictions:
Languages:
Portuguese
English
French
Spanish
Biography

Duarte is a partner and co-head of the Corporate M&A practice. He has over 18 years’ experience in private equity, mergers and acquisitions, corporate law, investment funds and privatisation.

Duarte is known for handling major private equity, corporate governance, M&A and privatisation transactions, working both in Portugal and internationally, with a focus on the markets of Angola, Brazil and Mozambique.

Duarte has a law degree from Universidade Católica Portuguesa in Lisbon and completed a postgraduate course in banking law at the Faculty of Law of the University of Lisbon.

Practice areas
  • M&A
  • Private equity
  • Private equity funds
Address:
Lisbon
Tel:(+351) 213 197 300 Website:https://www.plmj.com/en/people/partners/duarte-schmidt-lino/152/