Mafalda Teixeira de Abreu
Professional Partner • Lisbon
Mafalda Teixeira de Abreu is a Professional Partner at Abreu since 2018, co-coordinating the Projects and Structured Finance sector, working mainly on the public law side of national and international projects, investment contracts and public procurement and administrative litigation matters.
She has been involved in the areas of infrastructure projects and structured finance, in the regulatory and public law areas, advising on the structuring of public-private partnerships and concession contracts in Portugal, Mozambique and East Timor, in collaboration with Abreu International Legal Solutions. She has participated in several privatization processes of strategic Portuguese companies and has also supervised the setting up of public-private partnerships in the areas of health, transportation and social housing.
She has also assisted clients in connection with investment contracts and financial incentives under EU funds.
In the area of public procurement, she has been leading domestic and foreign clients in major tenders launched in Portugal, and has extensive experience in public procurement litigation before the administrative courts.
From 2007 to 2008 she worked as a Foreign Lawyer with the London law firm, Clyde & Co.
Experience
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Advising international financial institution in the design of public-private partnerships in the areas of health, transport and social housing in a Portuguese-speaking country;
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Advising French concessionaire, one of the largest infrastructure companies, in negotiating and signing concession contracts for the construction and operation of a gas network, as well as Austrian and German companies in concession contracts for the construction of hydroelectric plants, in a Portuguese-speaking country;
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Advising private partners in several privatization processes of Portuguese public companies, from the airport management company to the largest Portuguese air transport carrier;
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Advising on the negotiation and execution of investment contracts in Portugal, under the QREN (Quadro de Referência Estratégico Nacional) and Portugal 2020 strategic economic programmes;
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Advising national and international entities for bidding on procurement procedures in various sectors, including telecommunications, railways and roads.
Academic
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Faculdade de Direito da Universidade de Lisboa
Law degree (2001)
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Faculdade de Direito da Universidade de Lisboa
Postgraduate diploma in Legal-Administrative Sciences (2004)
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University College of London
Masters in Law (LLM) (2007)
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Faculdade de Direito da Universidade Católica
Attendance of Postgraduate Studies in Energy Law (2020)
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