Filipa Arantes Pedroso
Filipa Arantes Pedroso has worked as a corporate lawyer, particularly in mergers and acquisitions, on numerous national and international projects. In the real estate expertise, Filipa has been responsible for legal advice in the sector of property investment (asset deal or share deal) and respective due diligences; in the creation of structures for property investment, property investment funds and property companies; in tourism investment operations, including hotels, tourist resorts; in the execution and negotiation of real estate contracts, such as purchase and sale, forward purchase, sale and lease back; in the execution and negotiation of works, project and supervision contracts; in the execution and negotiation of contracts for the use and management of real estate, such as hotel management and operation, lease contracts including triple net, among others; urban planning; real estate financing and respective guarantees.
Expertise
Real Estate and Planning, Construction, Transactional Real Estate, Corporate Real Estate
Sectors
Construction and Public Work, Hospitality and Leisure, Licensing, Real Estate Investment Funds
Filipa Arantes Pedroso has advised clients on transactions involving building plots, building renovations, office parks, shopping centres, business parks, logistics parks, student accommodation, co-living and co-working residences for the elderly, hotels and other real estate and tourism projects.
Filipa Arantes Pedroso is an author in specialised national and international real estate magazines such as Vida Imobiliária, Iberian Property, Real Estate Law Review (Law Business Research, Ltd.), Global Insights - Commercial Real Estate, among others.
Filipa has been a speaker at various events organised by Vida Imobiliária, Iberian Property, APPII (Portuguese Association of Real Estate Investors and Developers) and GRI, such as the Real Estate Summit in Estoril, the GRI meeting in Madrid and Lisbon and the Lisbon Rehabilitation Week.
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Member of the Portuguese Bar Association since 1982. Member of the board of directors of Morais Leitão (1987/1992 and 2000/2004), member of the board of directors of Lex Mundi (2005/2009). Chairman of the Lex Mundi Banking and Finance Practice Group (2005/2007), Regional Vice-Chairman of the Lex Mundi Construction and Infrastructure Practice Group (2008/2012). Founder and member of the Association of the New Silk Road (China).
1987 – 2021: Partner, Morais Leitão Galvão Teles, Soares da Silva & Associados
1982 – 1987: Associate, Morais Leitão, Galvão Teles, Soares da Silva & Associados
1981 – 1982: Internship in the legal services of the European Commission
1980 – 1981: Master’s Degree in European Law, Université Catholique de Louvain
1978: Law Degree, Faculdade de Direito da Universidade de Lisboa