Tomás Rei Gomes da Silva
Principal Associate Lawyer – EU Financial Law & Crypto-Assets Regulation
Lisbon, Portugal
Principal Associate at Cuatrecasas with 9 years of EU financial law practice. Specialist in MiCA, DeFi, tokenization, MiFID II, PSD2, AIFMD, and AML/TFR. Advised on the first EMT issuance and first TSS DLT market infrastructure in Portugal. Acted for half of currently licensed VASPs in Portugal. Author and lecturer on crypto-assets regulation.
Work Preferences
Salary
EUR 100,000
Skills
Work Experience
Associate → Principal Associate
Cuatrecasas
Jul 2024 — Present
Banking & Finance Department focusing on financial regulation, crypto-assets, payment services, e-money, tokenization and funds. Advised half of VASPs/CASPs licensed in Portugal, acted on the first EMT issuance and the first TSS DLT infrastructure licensed under the DLT Pilot Regime in Portugal. Full-cycle advisory: regulatory licensing, DeFi analysis, AML and Travel Rule compliance, fund formation.
Associate
Garrigues
Jan 2023 — Jul 2024
Banking & Finance Department covering financial regulation, FinTech, funds and project finance. Advised on VASP registration, one of the first EMIs in Portugal, and project finance transactions and regulatory advisory for financial institutions.
Legal Counsel
Banco de Investimento Global (BiG)
Jul 2020 — Dec 2022
In-house legal counsel at a bank regulated across multiple jurisdictions (Portugal, Spain, Mozambique). Direct exposure to internal legal operations, product governance, policies and procedures, regulatory reporting and cross-jurisdictional legal coordination.
Trainee → Associate
Macedo Vitorino e Associados
Sept 2017 — Jul 2020
Multidisciplinary practice covering financial regulation, capital markets, project finance and companies law.
Education
Faculty of Law, University of Lisbon
Law Degree · Law
2013 – 2017