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Inês Pinto da Costa

EY Law

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Position: Partner
Rating:
  • Highly regarded
  • Women Leaders
Bar Admissions:
Portugal
Practice Areas:
Project finance
Private equity
M&A
Jurisdictions:
Languages:
Portuguese
English
Spanish
Biography

Inês is a partner in the Corporate M&A practice, but she also works in projects and infrastructures. She has almost 20 years’ experience in project finance, M&A and private equity operations.

Her work includes projects in the areas of infrastructure, energy, PPPs, and the development of projects for industrial plants in Portugal and in Portuguese-speaking African countries.

Inês also has extensive experience in international corporate/M&A operations and in advising some of Portugal’s most important private equity firms.

In recent years, she has been very active in the Angolan market, dealing not only with questions of financing, but also in construction contracts and private investment.

Inês completed postgraduate courses in securities law at the Faculty of Law of the University of Lisbon and in international trade law at the same faculty. She also has an executive master’s in management for lawyers from Universidade Católica Portuguesa.

Practice areas
  • M&A
  • Private equity
  • Private equity funds
  • Project development
  • Project finance
Address:
Lisbon
Website:https://www.ey.com/pt_pt/services/law/ey-law