Catarina 

SARAMAGO

Catarina is a Research Associate at the Centre for Banking & Finance Law of the National University of Singapore. Prior to joining the Centre, in 2020, Catarina was awarded an LLM degree with specialisation in Commercial Law by the University of Cambridge, from which she graduated with first class honours. She also holds an LLB awarded by the Catholic University of Portugal, after completing their undergraduate program in law in the 5^th position in 2015.

Between 2015 and 2020, Catarina practised as a legal counsel in the Finance & Governance department of the Portuguese law firm Sérvulo & Associados, where she currently holds the position of Consultant. She has extensive experience in advising both financial institutions and companies in national and cross-border financial and M&A transactions. As a legal practitioner, she also generated policy recommendations, drafted financial legislation and regulation for distinct jurisdictions, and was seconded to the legal department of investment banks.

Her main area of interest is financial law, with a particular focus on debt issuance in the capital markets, structured finance, syndicated lending and transfer of loans. She has also developed a broad interest in combining the legal, strategic, accounting and financial stands involved in the reorganisation of corporate groups and pre-insolvency debt restructurings.  During her time in Cambridge, Catarina began to research about the impact of technological innovation on corporate debt finance, a work that she will further develop in the Centre.

• Financial Law