About Us

Ana Peixoto is a Partner at Paxlegal, Head of the Banking, Finance and Capital Markets Practice and Co-Head of the Civil Litigation and Digital, AI and Emerging Technologies Practices.

She holds a law degree from the University of Minho School of Law, where she attended the Master’s programme in Contract and Business Law. She completed a Postgraduate Course in Law and Technology at the Universidade Católica Portuguesa and a Postgraduate Course in Fintech at the Private Law Research Centre of the Faculty of Law of the University of Lisbon.

Since the beginning of her career, she has practised in civil litigation, banking and finance law and compliance, combining traditional legal practice with the application of law to new technologies. She has acted in highly complex disputes, particularly in banking and financial matters, including in the context of bank resolution and insolvency, and has assisted companies in their digital transition. In her practice, she has advised on transactions and projects based on blockchain technology, crypto-assets, NFTs, decentralised finance (DeFi) and Web3. She was part of the teams responsible for the enforcement of a mortgage over a property by means of a smart contract in a test environment (2020), the first exchange of crypto-assets for a property, executed by public deed in Braga (2022), and the creation of a charitable NFT (2023).

Before joining PAXLEGAL, she was an Associate at Antas da Cunha Ecija & Associados, where she was a member of the Legal Intelligence and Banking, Finance and Capital Markets Practices. Previously, she also gained experience at KPMG in the indirect tax area.

In 2026, she was a finalist at the Iberian Lawyer Forty Under 40 Awards in the Lawyer of the Year: Digital Tech category, and was recognised by The Legal 500 as a Key Lawyer in TMT (Technology, Media & Telecommunications). In the same year, at the invitation of Chambers and Partners, she co-authored the Portugal Trends and Developments chapter of the Debt Finance 2026 guide. She was also part of the teams recognised by Leaders League in 2026 as Highly Recommended in the Technology category, and by the Financial Times in the 2022 and 2025 editions of the FT Innovative Lawyers Europe.

She is a Guest Speaker in the Executive Education Blockchain & Smart Contracts programme at Nova School of Business and Economics.