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Tomás Pessanha - Garrigues

Tomás
Pessanha

Partner
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Oporto
Experience: 

Tomás Pessanha is a partner in the area of Mergers & Acquisitions, Corporate and Commercial Contracts at Garrigues in Oporto.

He has over 20 years’ professional experience advising companies and institutional investors, both national and foreign, on matters relation to corporate law, commercial contracts, mergers and acquisitions, private equity and venture capital and restructuring. Before joining Garrigues, he worked at PLMJ, in Oporto, for over 17 years, and for the last 12 as partner head of the Corporate / M&A area, having played an active role in some of the most important transactions in Portugal, Mozambique and Angola.
 
Tomás Pessanha is frequently mentioned in various directories, such as Chambers & Partners; The Legal 500 (Hall of Fame); IFLR1000; Best Lawyers and Who’s Who Legal. In 2009, his name appeared in the 40 under Forty Awards of Iberian Lawyer.
 
He has also acted as guest lecturer on several postgraduate courses at the Porto Business School.
 
He is a member of the IBA - International Bar Association.
 
He has been a member of the Portuguese Bar Association since 1997.
Academic background: 

Law degree from the Law Faculty of the Universidade de Lisboa (1995).

Postgraduate in Media Law from the Law Faculty of the Universidade de Coimbra (1997).
 
Course on Accounting and Finance for Legal Experts from the Instituto Superior de Gestão (2000).
 
Attendee at the Postgraduate in Management for Legal Experts from the Business and Economics Faculty of the Universidade Católica Portuguesa - Escola do Porto (2005-2006).
 
Program on Negotiation at the Harvard Law School (2007).
Publications: 

Tomás Pessanha has collaborated in the following publications as author and co-author:

  • The Private Equity Review - Chapter on Portugal, Private Equity Law Business Research Ltd, 2015;
  • The Private Equity Review - Chapter on Portugal, Private Equity Law Business Research Ltd, 2014;
  • Getting the Deal Through - Investment Treaty Arbitration, 2014;
  • Commercial Companies in Portugal - The Comparative Law Yearbook of International, Corporate and M&A Kluwer Law International, 2013;
  • The Private Equity Review - Chapter on Portugal, Private Equity Law Business Research Ltd, 2013;
  • The Private Equity Review - Chapter on Portugal, Private Equity Law Business Research Ltd, 2012; 
  • Getting the Deal Through - Product Liability, Porto Law Business Research Ltd, 2009;
  • Legal Implications of the Millennium Bug, Kluwer Law International, 1999. 

Practice Area/Industry

Corporate Law and Commercial Contracts
Mergers & Acquisitions
Private Equity

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Portuguese
Spanish

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