Banking and Finance - Portugal

Our firm has a department specialized in Banking and Financial Law with extensive experience in advising banking and financial entities, including Fintechs, particularly in the process of establishing branches and representative offices in Portugal, as well as advising entities already established in this country.

  • Preparation of reports on the activities of banking and financial entities

  • Information and analysis of legislation related to the activities of credit and financial institutions

  • Institutional communications with regulators; Banco de Portugal and Comissão do Mercado de Valores Mobiliários (CMVM)

  • Advisory on cross-border banking and financial activities

  • Advisory on compliance with legal and regulatory duties, corporate governance, and market relations

  • Analysis, structuring, and monitoring of the establishment and authorization of entities and branches

  • European passport: freedom to provide services

  • Advisory on linked and non-linked credit intermediation

  • Credit intermediation contracts

  • Analysis, structuring, and monitoring of operations and the establishment and authorization of entities and branches

  • European passport: regime of free provision of services

  • Opening of branches and representative offices in Portugal
  • Analysis, structuring, and monitoring of the establishment and authorization of entities with the aim of relocating entities or establishing subsidiaries in Portugal, in particular:
  • Processes related to the response to Brexit

  • Processes related to disengaging from markets with low associations to anti-money laundering and counter-terrorism financing policies (AML/FT), specifically based on reports and ratings from the European Commission, FATF, and MONEYVAL.

  • Preparation, review, and adaptation of financing contracts in accordance with Portuguese law

  • Preparation, review, and adaptation of commercial contracts related to the activities of credit and financial institutions

  • Requirements for account opening, customer identification data, requirements for the issuance and operation of checks and other payment methods

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