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Luis Soares de Sousa
Senior Associate (Portuguese qualified)
About
Luis advises on all aspects of corporate transactions, including cross-border M&A, private equity, joint ventures, re-organisations and corporate governance matters.
Luis has a particular focus on mergers and acquisitions of both private and listed companies, in the financial, industrial, energy and services sectors. He acts for a wide variety of clients, including large corporations, private equity houses and banks. Luis also has experience on acquisition finance and refinancing transactions.
Luis previously worked in the Lisbon and Madrid offices of Iberian law firm Uria Menendez.
Experience
- Advising leading private markets data solutions provider Preqin on its sale to global investment manager BlackRock for £2.55bn.
- Advising Alchemy Special Opportunities Fund IV on its acquisition of the Brasserie Blanc bar and restaurant chain.
- Advising a family-owned group in the carve-out and disposal of its agri-business unit to a preeminent private equity house.
- Advising a major private equity house in a cross-border transaction for the acquisition of a tile coating business.
- Advising a major private equity house in a cross-border transaction for the disposal of a portfolio company in the water sector.
- Advising on the incorporation of a joint venture between two major private equity funds in the crop nutrition and biocontrol sectors.
- Advising Affirmative Investment Management (AIM) on its sale to New York listed MetLife Inc’s investment management business, MetLife Investment Management (MIM).