Diogo Pereira Duarte

Partner and co-head of Abreu Advogados’ Banking & Finance practice area, working primarily on FinTech and investment banking Law.

Professor of Civil and Financial Law at the Lisbon School of Law.

Extensive experience in advice on the legal implications resulting of the intersection between technology and financial law, such as:

• Smart contracts and blockchain
• Crypto-assets, ICOs, IDOs and other token generated events
• Launchpads
• Innovation and AML/CFT
• Cloud computing and outsourcing
• Open banking and APIs
• Innovation in payment services
• Innovation in financial products/ services
• Start-up financing
• Crowdfunding
• Data protection and privacy issues

General Topic for Events:“Descodificar ESG – alterações climáticas, risco empresarial e tecnologia”.

He was appointed by the Bank of Portugal to join the Market Contact Group on the Digital Euro.

The purpose of this group is to assess the main options regarding the design and distribution of a potential digital euro within the Euro system.

Diogo Pereira Duarte organizes conferences on FinTech, Crowdfunding and Data Protection, and is the author and editor of several research studies on FinTech´s legal matters.

English and Spanish.