Vera Pinto

Managing Director

Vera is a managing director at Oaklins Portugal, with more than 15 years’ experience in financial advisory and M&A. She has advised clients in a variety of industries, particularly in hospitality, renewables and infrastructure, construction, food & beverage, distribution & retail, paper, consumer goods and IT. Recent transactions include the sale of Bio2, one of the two largest Portuguese pet wholesalers, to Alliando, the second largest distributor of veterinary products in Europe; the sale of Celfinet, a Portuguese IT engineering company, to Cyient, a quoted Indian group offering global engineering, manufacturing and digital technology solutions; and the sale of a minority stake in DigitalSign, the leading company in the Portuguese electronic signature and digital certification market, to Logalty, a prominent business in the legaltech sector in Spain.

Vera joined Oaklins Portugal in 2017, having previously been assistant manager of corporate finance at ASK Group, a Portuguese investment banking firm, where she spent eight years working on M&A projects. Vera started her career at Deloitte in 2006, first in the audit division and then in corporate finance. Vera has a degree in management from ISEG.