About Benedita Aires

Benedita Aires is a partner in VdA's banking and finance practice. She is actively involved in several transactions in Portugal and abroad, focusing mainly on the issue and placement of debt and equity instruments and other structured financial products, as well as classic financing. She also actively works in securitisation transactions, covered bonds issuances, other types of asset-backed transactions and real estate financing. Benedita has been involved in public recapitalisation transactions and the application of resolution measures to Portuguese banks, including the incorporation of bridge banks and the approval of the state aid and restructuring plans for those banks by the European Commission.