##  [Miguel Menezes da Silva](/pt/en_GB/team/miguel-menezes-da-silva) 

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 Miguel Menezes da Silva Partner 

 <miguel.menezes.silva@garrigues.com> - [Lisbon](/pt/en_GB/office/lisbon)+351 213 821 200





 

 

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Miguel Menezes da Silva is a Real Estate and Planning partner in Garrigues, where he exercises his professional activity since 2006. He is specialized in sale and purchase of assets, portfolios and real estate companies, as well as in the contracting of W&amp;I insurance policies (and related products) in real estate transactions. He also works with all issues related with asset management. He has a degree in Law and graduation in Commercial Law and Tax Law. He is regularly called to graduations dedicated to Real Estate law where he lectures on matters related to the acquisition of assets. He is ackowneledged in his area of specialty by several international directories, including Chambers and Legal 500.

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Miguel Menezes da Silva is a Real Estate and Planning partner in Garrigues since 2020, having joined the firm in 2006.

In his professional career, he has gained extensive expertise in all sort of transactions involving real estate assets of different nature (residential, offices, retail, logistics and touristic), having developed his activity in particular in the following areas:

- Sale and purchase of assets and companies.
- Corporate restructuring and corporate finance.
- International transactions for investment.
- Acquisition of portfolios.
- Development of real estate projects.
- Asset management.

He is also dedicated to advising, from any perspective (seller, buyer and insurer) the contracting of W&amp;I insurance policies and related products (title, disclosed contingencies, litigation, environmental) in the context of real estate transactions.   


 

 

 

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- Degree in Law, Law School of Universidade Católica Portuguesa (Lisbon).
- Graduation in Commercial Law, Universidade Católica Portuguesa.
- Graduation in Tax Law, Instituto Superior de Gestão.

 

 

 

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Lecturer at the Graduation on Real Estate Law of the "Universidade Católica Portuguesa" (in partnership with IMOJuris), in Lisbon and Oporto, where he lectures the session dedicated to "Mergers and Acquisitions in the Real Estate Sector"

 

 

 

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Member of the Bar Association since 2002

 

 

 

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- Chambers Europe 2022: Real Estate - Band 4  
    "*Miguel Menezes Silva rises in the rankings following considerable praise from sources, with one describing him as a "commercially savvy lawyer", while another commends his "strong level of knowledge of the real estate market". He assists with real estate acquisitions, purchases and sales of real estate portfolios.*"

- Legal 500 EMEA 2022: Real Estate and Construction - Next Generation Partner  
    "*Miguel Menezes da Silva (...) is highly praised by clients and is well versed in retail-related M&amp;A transactions*"





 

 

 

 





 

 



 

 

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