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Region: Portugal

Banco Espírito Santo creditors bring treaty claim against Portugal

The 2014 collapse of Banco Espírito Santo has prompted the first known investment treaty arbitration against Portugal, with two US hedge funds claiming its resolution authority bungled the “no creditor worse off” principle.

22 November 2022

ECB guidelines “facilitating” Spanish bank M&A as Unicaja and Liberbank merge

Portugal’s Novo Banco has divested its Spain-based businesses, while Spanish lenders Unicaja and Liberbank have won shareholder approval for their merger.

06 April 2021