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Francisco Xavier de Almeida is a Partner in the Corporate M&A team and is part of the ESG Task Force. He is also a member of CMS Portugal's Board of Directors.
With 25 years of experience, his main areas of focus are corporate M&A and banking and financial law, namely mergers and acquisitions, private equity, acquisition financing, bond issues, public offerings, credit securitization, and structured products.
He also has extensive experience in special situations, restructuring, and transactions involving distressed assets and NPLs.
Francisco has been individually ranked for Corporate M&A, Private Equity, Capital Markets, and Banking & Finance, by Chambers Global and Europe, for the past 19 years and he has been recommended for Commercial, Corporate and M&A, Capital Markets and Banking & Finance by Legal 500, 2025. Moreover, he is recognised for Corporate Law, Banking and Finance Law, Capital Markets Law, Mergers and Acquisitions, Law and Private Equity Law by Best Lawyers for the past years. He is also recognized as Highly Regarded for Banking, Capital Markets, and M&A by IFLR 1000, 2023. He is also ranked as Recommended for Capital Markets - Debt & Equity and Structured Finance, by WWL. Moreover, he is ranked as Highly Recommended for Banking & Finance and Private Equity and Excellent for Corporate M&A by Leaders League, 2025.
Joined CMS Portugal in 2007.
