About Benedita Aires

Benedita Aires is a partner in VdA's banking and finance practice. She has been actively involved in several transactions in Portugal and abroad, mainly focused on the issue and placement of debt and equity instruments and other structured financial products, as well as classic financing. She has also been actively working 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. She regularly contributes to industry publications.