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Hélder Frias

Partner since 2025 ––– Lisbon
Member no. 47791L of the Portuguese Bar Association
Languages
  • Spanish

  • English

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Profile

Hélder Frias has joined Uría Menéndez in 2006 and is a partner since 2025.

He focuses his activity on banking, finance and insurance law, with more than 18 years' experience advising domestic and foreign clients on mergers and acquisitions of financial institutions, banking-insurance alliances, joint ventures, transfers of insurance portfolios and the regulatory aspects inherent in these markets, including credit intermediation and insurance distribution activities.

Hélder also regularly provides legal advice on regulatory and supervisory issues related to the financial and insurance activities (namely banking, financial intermediation and payment services), including granting loans, setting up guarantees, factoring, buying and selling credits, money laundering, venture capital and financial products and instruments in the retail and investment banking and insurance activities (capitalisation and unit-linked life insurance operations). He also advises clients on debt restructurings and NPL transactions.

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Education

  • Law Degree, Universidade de Lisboa, 2006
Education

Professional associations

  • Portuguese Bar Association (Ordem dos Advogados)
  • International Insurance Law Association

Recent publications

  • Hélder Frias. In International Comparative Legal Guides. Fintech 2025. James Cook, David Ives, David Shone. London: Global Legal Group, 2025

  • Hélder Frias, Marta Pontes, José António Reymão. In Acquisition Finance 2025. Chambers Global Practice Guides. Nicholas A. Dorsey (Contributing Editor), Johannes Tieves (Contributing Editor). London: Chambers and Partners, 2025

  • Hélder Frias, Sofia Santos Júnior. In In-Depth Consumer Finance Law. Lexology, 9th ed. Rick Fischer (Editor), Calvin Funk (Editor), Jeremy Mandell (Editor). London: Law Business Research, 2025

  • Hélder Frias, Domingos Salgado. In International Comparative Legal Guides. Fintech 2024. James Cook (Contributing Editor), David Ives (Contributing Editor), David Shone (Contributing Editor). London: Global Legal Group, 2024

  • Portugal. Law & Practice

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    Hélder Frias, Marta Pontes, José António Reymão. In Acquisition Finance 2024. Chambers Global Practice Guides. Nicholas A. Dorsey (Consulting Editor), Nicholas A. Dorsey (Contributing Editor), Johannes Tieves (Contributing Editor). London: Chambers and Partners, 2024