Banking law - Portugal

Our firm has a department specialising in Banking and Financial law that has experience in providing legal services to banking and financial entities, including Fintech, particularly in the process of opening branches and representative offices in Portugal, as well as entities already established in the country.

Regulatory

• Assistance in preparing opinions on the activity of banking and financial entities

• Information and review of legislation related with the activity of credit institutions and financial institutions

• Institutional communications with regulators, namely Banco de Portugal and the Securities Market Commission (CMVM)

• Assistance in the cross-border exercise of banking and financial activity

• Advice on compliance with legal and regulatory duties, corporate governance and market relations

 

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Credit Intermediaries

• Analysis, structuring and monitoring of operations regarding the incorporation and authorisation of entities and branches

• European passport: freedom to provide services

• Advice on linked and unbound credit intermediation

• Credit intermediation agreements

 

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Payment Services and Electronic Money Institutions

• Analysis, structuring and monitoring of operations regarding the incorporation and authorisation of entities and branches

• European passport: freedom to provide services

 

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Relocation of Entities

• Opening of branches and representative offices in Portugal

• Analysis, structuring and monitoring of operations regarding the incorporation and authorisation of entities aiming at the redomiciliation of an entity or set-up of a subsidiary in Portugal, in particular:

- Proceedings related to responses to Brexit

- Processes related with the untying of markets with low connotations of anti money laundering and terrorism financing policies (AML/TF), namely due to reports and ratings from the European Commission, FATF and MONEYVAL

 

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Agreements and Operations

• Preparation, review and adaptation of financing agreements in accordance with Portuguese law

• Preparation, review and adaptation of commercial agreements related to the activity of credit and financial institutions

• Requirements for opening accounts, customer identification data, requirements for issuing and operating checks and other means of payment

 

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Madrid

Belzuz Abogados - Madrid office

Nuñez de Balboa 115 bis 1

  28006 Madrid

+34 91 562 50 76

+34 91 562 45 40

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Lisbon

Belzuz Abogados - Lisbon office

Av. Duque d´Ávila, 141 – 1º Dtº

  1050-081 Lisbon

+351 21 324 05 30

+351 21 347 84 52

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Oporto

Belzuz Abogados - Oporto office

Rua Julio Dinis 204, Off 314

  4050-318 Oporto

+351 22 938 94 52

+351 22 938 94 54

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