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Bruno Azevedo Rodrigues

Bruno Azevedo Rodrigues

Partner • Lisbon

Bruno Azevedo Rodrigues is a Partner at Abreu since 2022, he coordinates the Projects & Structured Finance sector, focusing on national and international projects in the energy and natural resources, transport and infrastructure sectors.

Bruno’s practice focuses on energy and traditional infrastructure, especially on structured finance, project development and private equity operations and venture capital.

Prior to joining ABREU Bruno was a partner of DLA Piper where he headed for 12 years the Energy and Natural Resources practice and was one of the heads of Projects & Finance practice and was a member of the team of external counsel acting for the Government of East Timor in the negotiation of the Maritime Boundary Treaty with Australia.

For over 20 years Bruno has regularly advised financial institutions (including multilaterals), States and public sector, Funds, oil companies, utilities and IPPs in high profile projects in Portugal, Angola, Mozambique, East-Timor, Equatorial Guinea and Cape Verde, and has also led M&A transactions in the financial, industrial and IT sectors, among others.

Besides the transactional mandates, Bruno also regularly advises on regulatory matters and dispute resolution in regulated sectors.

Bruno is a regular lecturer in several postgraduate and masters’ classes on project finance, corporate finance and energy law.

Practice Areas
Public and Environment, Finance
Industries
Energy & Natural Resources, Projects & Structured Finance, Banking & Financial Services, Private Equity & Venture Capital, Oil & Gas
Idiomas
English, French, Spanish
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Experience

  • Advising bank syndicates (as lenders), security agents, project companies and sponsors in structured finance financing agreements in Portugal, Spain, Cape Verde, France, Romania, Brazil, Angola and Mozambique

  • Advising multilateral financial institutions in infrastructure finance deals

  • Advising project companies in project development of more than 3GW renewable energy projects

  • Advising traditional developers, IPPs, infrastructure funds and utilities on M&A deals in the energy sector

  • Advising on private equity deals in the infrastructure sector

  • Advising Oil & Gas companies and respective service providers

  • Advising asset managers on regulatory issues and the incorporation and registration of funds

  • Advising multilateral financial institutions and governments on legislative reform projects

  • Advising on privatizations and banking resolutions in the financial sector (banking and insurance)

  • Head of the legal committee of the Portuguese Renewable Energy Association (APREN)

Bruno Azevedo Rodrigues

Education

  • Faculdade de Direito da Universidade de Lisboa

    Law degree (1997)

  • Faculdade de Direito da Universidade de Lisboa

    Postgraduate Diploma in Tax Law (2003)

  • Faculdade de Ciências Económicas e Empresariais, Universidade Católica

    Advanced Programme in Public-Private Partnerships for Executives (2007)

Associations