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Maria Cunha Matos

VdA Vieira de Almeida

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Position: Partner
Rating:
  • Rising star partner
Bar Admissions:
Portugal
Practice Areas:
Capital markets
M&A
Jurisdictions:
Languages:
English
French
Biography

Maria Cunha Matos joined VdA in 2017. Partner of the M&A practice. She has been working on mergers and acquisitions and joint ventures in a number of sectors (mining, industry, agri-business, food, real estate and retail, among others) and international capital markets transactions.

Practice areas
  • M&A
  • Private equity
  • Restructuring and insolvency
Sector specialisations
  • Mining
  • Industry
  • Agri-business
  • Food
  • Real estate
  • Retail
Bar admissions

Bar admissions - Admitted to the Portuguese Bar Association, to the Law Society of England and Wales, as a solicitor, and to the Brazilian Bar Association, as a foreign legal consultant.

Academic qualifications
  • Law degree, University Lisbon Faculty of Law.
  • Post-graduation in Tax Management, Overgest/ISCTE.
  • QLTT (Qualified Lawyers Transfer Test), The College of Law.
  • Women’s Leadership Programme, Cranfield School of Management.
Address:
Rua Dom Luís I, 28
1200-151 Lisboa | Portugal
Tel:+351213113400 Email:Contact this practitioner Website:http://www.vda.pt/en