Natacha Barradas

Natacha Barradas is an Angolan lawyer and partner of LEAD Advogados, specialising in Banking and Insurance Law and Capital Markets.

She has a degree in Law from the Faculty of Law of the Catholic University of Angola (2004), a postgraduation in Business and Corporate Law from the Faculty of Law of the University of Lisbon (2008) and in International Trade Law from the Faculty of Law of the Agostinho Neto University (2006). She also holds a Master’s in Law and Management from the Faculty of Law of the Portuguese Catholic University in partnership with Catholic Lisbon Business & Economics (2009).

Natacha coordinates the Banking Law, Insurance and Capital Markets practice areas, having extensive experience in the elaboration of several legal instruments related to local and international financing contracts, including structuring of guarantees, placement and issuance of bonds in the domestic and international market to public and private entities, namely Angola's three Eurobonds issuances in the international market.

She has also extensive experience in the design and development of project finance and structured finance legal solutions, as well as advising various investors on the incorporation of banking and non-banking financial institutions linked to the insurance and capital markets sector, and has closely followed the structuring of the most complex and innovative capital market transactions in Angola.

Natacha is also experienced in Public Law and in the drafting of legislation, with an emphasis on instruments linked to Capital Markets, Financial Institutions Law, and more recently the attempt to amend the insurance sector legislative package. She also has extensive experience in public procurement, namely advising on tender procedures and contract execution, including concessions and privatisations.