Rui de Oliveira Neves

Rui de Oliveira Neves rejoined the firm as partner in 2021, with responsibility for business transformation to provide a renewed offer of legal services with a strategic and risk management approach focused on advising on transactions, projects and regulatory matters. He also adds a strong focus on sustainability, co-coordinating the firm’s Sustainability practice to respond to ESG and human rights matters.

Between 2013 and 2021, he was Director of Legal Affairs and Governance, General Secretary and held management positions at Galp. Previously, he had developed his career at Morais Leitão for 14 years.

Over the course of a career spanning more than 25 years, Rui has been responsible for some of the largest transactions across the Iberian Peninsula, Lusophone Africa and Brazil, in a wide range of sectors, with a particular focus on energy and aerospace. Notable highlights include the acquisition of some of the largest renewable energy asset portfolios in the United States and Spain.

In the capital markets arena, he has advised on the IPO of one of the world’s largest renewable energy companies, as well as on the reprivatisation of Portugal’s largest public utilities company, the reprivatisation of the national TSO, several takeover bids and other IPO and reprivatisation processes.

Rui is one of the most active lawyers in the area of energy law, with a track record in all areas of the sector, with particular emphasis on international regulatory and transactional experience, from the oil and gas industry, in the upstream, midstream and downstream aspects, to the production, transmission, distribution and marketing of electricity and natural gas, as well as in renewable energy and new energy solutions, namely hydrogen, renewable gases and batteries.

Guest lecturer at the University of Lisbon Law School and Catholic University Law School.