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6th IBA Global Entrepreneurship Conference: The Netherlands – sailing the seas of global innovation

16 May - 17 May 2022

Felix Meritis, Amsterdam, Netherlands

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Mariana Norton dos Reis

Biography

Mariana Norton dos Reis is a membership officer of the IBA Women Lawyer's Committee. She is the head of the Corporate/ M&A Practice of Cuatrecasas in Portugal. Cuatrecasas is a leading international law firm who is a benchmark for all legal issues in Spain, Portugal, and Latin America. Mariana has been a partner of the firm’s corporate M&A group since 2010. She worked at the Madrid office from 2004 to 2017 and is currently based in the Lisbon office. Her practice both in Portuguese and Spanish law is focused on cross border M&A, private equity transactions with extensive experience in renewable energies and infrastructures. She regularly acts for private equity investors on their investments and divestments, and represents strategic investors in connection with cross border acquisitions and sales of privately owned companies and assets. Recommended by several directories including Chambers and Partners, Legal 500 and Leaders League in Corporate M&A and Private Equity. In 2013, Mariana Norton received the '40 under 40' award, granted by Iberian Lawyer to the top 40 lawyers under 40 years of age on the Iberian Peninsula. In 2015, she was distinguished by Expansión as one of the most active M&A lawyers by a number of deals in Spain. In 2017, the prestigious publication Iberian Lawyer included Mariana Norton in its InspiraLAw list of top 50 women in the legal sector.