Morais Leitão, Galvão Teles, Soares da Silva announces the promotion of three new partners

Morais Leitão, Galvão Teles, Soares da Silva is pleased to announce the promotion of three new salary partners: Ana Monjardino, Isabel Santos Fidalgo and Rita Ferreira Vicente.

About the new partners:

Ana Monjardino:

Ana Monjardino joined the firm in 2001 and is a member of the banking and finance team and is Head of the French Desk.
Since 1996 Ana Monjardino has worked on international public tenders, including privatisations, and on several types of operations in the area of project finance, having represented promoters, financing banks (national and international) and administrative authorities, especially in regard to motorway (SCUT and real toll), transport, water and waste infrastructures, health care partnerships, aquaculture and venues. Ana provides a full scope service throughout the life of the projects: tender phase, contractual structuring, negotiation and financing closing, follow-up of the construction and exploitation phases, transfers, refinancing and restructuring, and general follow-up legal advice to concessionaire companies and state-owned companies pertaining to local and regional administration.

Isabel Santos Fidalgo:

Isabel Santos Fidalgo joined the firm in 2006 and is a member of the tax team. Since 1999 she has worked intensively in all the areas of tax law with special emphasis on national corporate income tax – financial, commercial, and industrial - covering all specialties in tax matters. She has participated in the most relevant national corporate reorganisation operations. She has extensive and recognised experience in tax litigation (administrative and judicial) representing the most relevant national litigants and clients in legal proceedings in various areas of taxation. Isabel acts as an arbitrator at the Administrative Arbitration Centre. In 2013 she was a technical member of the Fiscal Reform Commission (IRC).

Rita Ferreira Vicente:

Rita Ferreira Vicente joined the firm in 2001 an she is a member of the real estate team. She also collaborates with the Africa Team - an internal structure that guarantees, on a permanent basis, and in close cooperation with the member firms of the MLGTS Legal Circle, personalised day-to-day assistance to clients on matters that involve or are related to the jurisdictions of the African Portuguese speaking countries – in which she regularly assists clients in the real estate area. Since 1992 Rita has handled several real estate developments, acquisitions and sales of companies on behalf of domestic and foreign clients as well as projects concerning the structuring of real estate transactions and tourism projects and concerning the incorporation of real estate management companies and real estate funds. She has also experience in the development of offices parks, shopping centers, retail parks and logistic parks, as well as in the negotiation of real estate contracts, including sale and purchase, sale and lease back, exchange and surface rights. In recent years, she has also been the legal advisor to credit institutions in the areas of consumer credit, leasing and factoring area and mortgage credit to real estate projects/developments representing mortgage banks.