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Margarida Vila Franca

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Margarida Vila Franca

Partner
Lawyer

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CMS Portugal
Rua Castilho 50
1250-071 Lisbon
Portugal
Languages Portuguese, English, Spanish, German

Margarida Vila Franca develops her activity mainly in areas including advising on M&A processes, public offerings and corporate reorganizations, both domestic and cross-border, with special focus on the energy sector.

She has also been active in M&A insurance, where she advises international insurance entities in the scope of their activity in Portugal. She regularly provides legal advice on corporate compliance, corporate governance and financial regulation issues, mostly to foreign groups active in Portugal.

In 2018, Margarida became a Partner in the areas of corporate law, private equity, capital markets and banking and finance.

Joined CMS Portugal in 2001.

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Margarida Vila Franca is highlighted as an "organised, efficient and technically very complete" associate.

Chambers & Partners (2015)

Margarida Vila Franca and team head João Caldeira are recommended.

Legal 500 (2015)

Margarida Vila Franca is highlighted as an "organised, efficient and technically very complete" associate.

Chambers & Partners (2015)

Margarida Vila Franca and team head João Caldeira are recommended.

Legal 500 (2015)

Memberships & Roles

  • Member of the Portuguese Bar Association since 2002
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Education

  • Law degree, Faculdade de Direito, Universidade Clássica de Lisboa
  • Postgraduation degree in Securities, Faculdade de Direito, Universidade Clássica de Lisboa
  • Master of Laws (LL.M.) in Legal and Commercial Sciences, Faculdade de Direito, Universidade Católica Portuguesa
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08/02/2022
Meet the Law - Profit Par­ti­cip­a­tion Loan
On 13 Janu­ary, entered in­to force the leg­al re­gime of the Profit Par­ti­cip­a­tion Loans (RJEP), ap­proved by De­cree-Law No. 11/2022, of 12 Janu­ary.The Profit Par­ti­cip­a­tion Loan (PPL) is presen­ted as an in­stru­ment...
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30/04/2021
Meet the Law
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01/04/2021
Meet the Law - COV­ID-19 ex­cep­tion­al and tem­por­ary meas­ures
In ac­cord­ance with De­cree-Law no.22-A/2021, March 17th, in force since 18 March:-  Gen­er­al meet­ings of com­mer­cial com­pan­ies, as­so­ci­ations or co­oper­at­ives, which must be held due to leg­al or stat­utory...
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24/02/2021
Meet the Law - Drones - Se­guro de re­sponsab­il­id­ade civil
Min­is­teri­al Or­der No. 2/2021 was pub­lished on last 4 Janu­ary, de­fin­ing the min­im­um cov­er­age, con­di­tions and cap­it­al re­quire­ments ap­plic­able to the civil li­ab­il­ity in­sur­ance to be con­cluded by op­er­at­ors...
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17/02/2021
Meet the Law - In­sur­ance and re­in­sur­ance dis­tri­bu­tion
On Janu­ary 26, 2021 the Reg­u­lat­ory Stand­ard of the In­sur­ance and Pen­sion Funds Su­per­vi­sion Au­thor­ity No. 13/2020-R was pub­lished (“Reg­u­lat­ory Stand­ard”), which reg­u­lates the leg­al re­gime of in­sur­ance...
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07/07/2020
IFLR1000 dis­tin­guishes CMS Rui Pena & Ar­naut
CMS Rui Pena & Ar­naut has just been high­lighted by the in­ter­na­tion­al dir­ect­ory IFLR1000.The firm is re­com­men­ded in the fol­low­ing areas:Bank­ing;Cap­it­al Mar­kets: Debt;Cap­it­al Mar­kets: Equity;M&A;Pro­ject...
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17/04/2018
Full entry in­to force of the Por­tuguese In­sti­tute of Cor­por­ate Gov­ernance's...
Com­pan­ies with shares lis­ted on reg­u­lated mar­ket - Trans­ition to a self-reg­u­lat­ory mod­el of cor­por­ate gov­ernanceOn March 19, 2018, the Por­tuguese Se­cur­it­ies Mar­ket Com­mis­sion (Comis­são do Mer­cado de...
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23/10/2017
Trans­par­ency Re­gister
Trans­par­ency Re­gister – Over­view of For­eign Re­port­ing Re­quire­ments In­tro­duc­tion Among oth­er meas­ures de­signed to com­bat money laun­der­ing and ter­ror­ist fin­an­cing, the 4th Money Laun­der­ing Dir­ect­ive...
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29/09/2017
End of the bear­er se­cur­it­ies
Fol­low­ing the pro­hib­i­tion of the is­su­ance of bear­er se­cur­it­ies, in force as from the 4th of May 2017, the trans­ition­al re­gime that es­tab­lishes the con­ver­sion of bear­er se­cur­it­ies in­to nom­in­at­ive se­cur­it­ies...
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15/09/2017
New rules on the an­nu­al ac­counts of Pub­lic In­terest En­tit­ies
Large com­pan­ies[1] and com­pan­ies head of large groups, with the leg­al status of pub­lic in­terest en­tit­ies[2] and that have on av­er­age more than 500 em­ploy­ees dur­ing the fin­an­cial year, in what con­cerns...
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13/09/2017
Money laun­der­ing and ter­ror­ism fin­an­cing pre­ven­tion
Next week, on the 18th of Septem­ber, the new rules on for money laun­der­ing and ter­ror­ism fin­an­cing pre­ven­tion will come in­to force (Law 83/2017, of au­gust 18th).In gen­er­al, the main in­nov­a­tions in L83/2017...
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04/09/2017
New Le­gis­la­tion Con­cern­ing Re­gis­tra­tion of Be­ne­fi­cial Own­er
New Le­gis­la­tion Con­cern­ing Re­gis­tra­tion of Be­ne­fi­cial Own­er­Law No 89/2017, of 21 Au­gust, which ap­proves the Leg­al Re­gime of the Cent­ral Re­gister of Ef­fect­ive Be­ne­fi­ciar­ies, thus trans­pos­ing Chapter III...
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