Maria Soares do Lago joined Morais Leitão in 2004 and became a partner in 2021. She’s a member of the firm’s banking and financing team.
She focuses on the banking and financing sector, particularly banking and financial transactions, in particular credit facilities, project finance and debt restructuring, debt issues (including medium term note programs and covered bonds), issues of hybrid instruments, securitization and derivatives.
Lawyer of the Year - Women in Business Law Awards 2021 Europe, in the category of Debt Capital Markets.
Law Degree (University of Lisbon School of Law, 2004). Course in International Financial Law (St Catherine's College, Oxford, 2004).
Portuguese, English, French and Spanish.
Portuguese Bar Association (admitted in 2006).