Filipa Serra
Senior Associate
Madrid
Filipa Serra
Senior Associate
Madrid
Contact details
Filipa is a senior associate based in Madrid and is part of our global Projects, Energy, Natural Resources and Infrastructure group. She is the Head of our Lusophone Desk and developed particular expertise on projects and financings in Lusophone markets.
She has a wide range of experience in project finance transactions, including advising export credit agencies, development finance institutions, syndicate lenders, sponsors and project companies on Infrastructure, Energy (including LNG) and Natural Resources in Africa, Europe and Asia.
She also has experience advising on procurement documentation and negotiating PPPs, concession agreements and sovereign guarantees.
Filipa was on secondment at the Japan Bank for International Cooperation (JBIC) for a year and worked closely with the JBIC team on a number of projects and financings in Africa, including Mozambique and Angola, Southeast Asia and Central Asia.
She has relocated to Madrid from the firm’s Tokyo office. She was previously in our Johannesburg office and Dubai office. Before joining A&O she worked in Portugal and opened a Portuguese law firm’s office in Timor-Leste, became the country manager for that office and advised clients investing in the upcoming PPP market.
Filipa is a part of our Hydrogen Interest Group, a Portuguese native speaker and fluent in English.
Qualifications
Professional
Admitted Portuguese Bar Association (Ordem dos Advogados), Portugal
(Not admitted to practise in Japan)
Academic
Post-graduation, Commercial Law, Catholic University of Portugal Lisbon Law School, 2009
Law Degree, University of Coimbra Law School, 2007
Related articles
Publications: 06 July 2023
As with many African nations, Lusophone countries on the continent are trying to balance a need to raise revenue to invest in economic development, often from exploiting fossil fuel resources, and the…
Publications: 08 June 2023
Publications: 14 March 2023
Publications: 29 September 2022
Qualifications
Professional
Admitted Portuguese Bar Association (Ordem dos Advogados), Portugal
(Not admitted to practise in Japan)
Academic
Post-graduation, Commercial Law, Catholic University of Portugal Lisbon Law School, 2009
Law Degree, University of Coimbra Law School, 2007
Published work
- “RED II Delegated Acts hydrogen updated analysis”, March 2023.
- “Hydrogen: Latest EU policy updates”, September 2022.
- “RED II Draft Delegated Acts – The missing pieces of the EU’s hydrogen puzzle”, June 2022.
- “Clean Hydrogen projects in the EU” for the publication PFI, May 2022.
- “European commission boost decarbosined gases with new gas package”, December 2021.
- International Comparative Legal Guide to Mining Law, Portugal, 2016.
