Recent years have witnessed a considerable surge of mergers and acquisitions across Europe and the US, necessarily extending to the jurisdictions in which the Miranda Alliance practices are present. M&A transactions pose increasingly challenging problems at several levels, in particular from a financing and security perspective but also from a regulatory standpoint. We advise companies, financial institutions and private equity houses on a variety of complex public and private M&A transactions by employing the best technical and commercial skills on all of their aspects. Our M&A capability comprises both Portugal and the African jurisdictions covered by the Miranda Alliance member firms and include purely domestic and cross-border transactions.

Some of our lawyers have gained a great deal of experience by having worked in-house at the securities market regulator, investment banks and other securities houses. This provides them and our clients with an invaluable source of legal, regulatory, technical and commercial expertise.

We have extensive experience in the following areas:

. Domestic and cross-border acquisitions of private companies
. Acquisition of listed companies and securities market-related requirements
. Mergers
. Joint ventures and shareholders agreements
. Competition and other regulatory concentration and merger notifications
. Due diligences
. Corporate finance