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Stephanie Sa Silva

Stéphanie Sá Silva

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About

Stéphanie Sá Silva concentrates her practice in corporate M&A, as well as in the aviation sector.
With more than 17 years of experience, she has advised on various corporate matters, mergers and acquisitions, investment projects, restructuring operations, privatizations and commercial agreements, in several sectors of activity.

Her practice has also been focussed on the air transport sector. Among others, she has advised on commercial, litigation and regulatory matters that are specific to this industry. In recent years, she was General Counsel at TAP Air Portugal.

 

EXPERIENCE

  • Advising on mergers and acquisitions, investment projects and commercial agreements, having represented clients in different sectors of activity, such as tourism, energy and health
  • Advising companies within the scope of privatizations launched by the Portuguese State
  • Advising on general corporate matters, namely on share capital increase and reduction operations, on the incorporation and transformation of companies, as well as on matters related to corporate governance, shareholders' rights and shareholders' agreements
  • Advising on restructuring and financing operations
  • Advising on regulatory issues in the aviation sector, such as on matters related to licensing, airport charges, compensation and assistance to passengers in the event of denied boarding and of cancellation or long delay of flights, and slots
Languages
  • Portuguese
  • English
  • French
Education
  • Faculty of Law of the Portuguese Catholic University, Postgraduate Diploma in Commercial Law, 2011
  • King's College London, Postgraduate Diploma in EC Competition Law, 2009
  • Faculty of Law of the Catholic University of Louvain, Postgraduate Diploma in International and European Law, 2005
  • Faculty of Law of the Paris II University, Panthéon-Assas, Law Degree, 2004

Publications

Speaker events
  • Iberian Lawyer, Speaker at the Legal Day on “Business Sustainability”, 2020
  • Prior Experience

    • 2022-present, Partner, DLA Piper ABBC
    • 2018-2022, General Counsel / Head of the Legal Department, TAP Air Portugal
    • 2016-2018, Lawyer, Portuguese Law Firm
    • 2011-2016, Lawyer, Portuguese Law Firm
    • 2009-2010, Legal Advisor, Ministry of the Economy, Innovation and Development
    • 2005-2009, Lawyer, Portuguese Law Firm
    • 2004, Trainee, Directorate-General for Competition of the European Commission

    Memberships And Affiliations

    • Admitted to the Portuguese Bar Association

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