Angola

Firm overview

With an extensive experience in Angola, our lawyers have led the most high-profile operations and projects of the last decades, particularly in the Oil and gas, mining, banking & finance and the telecommunications sectors. The exclusive Angolan member of VdA Legal Partners, Luanda-based ASP Advogados, is comprised of notable local lawyers, deeply familiarized with the Angolan market, drawing upon the talents and skills of over 280 VdA attorneys across jurisdictions and several international offices. Clients’ most demanding and multifaceted needs in Angola are met by a highly specialised and fully dedicated cross-sector legal practices. For further information, please visit: https://www.aspadvogados.co.ao/

Firm overview

ALC Advogados is a market leader law firm in Angola. Recognised by the excellence of their work, innovation capacity and ethical and deontological values, ALC Advogados combines a profound local knowledge with its remarkable international experience.

The team has solid academic training and vast knowledge in several areas of law and activity sectors enabling its members to advise clients with high technical expertise and responsiveness.

ALC Advogados is very active in private investment, corporate, oil and gas and also banking and finance. The firm is also involved in M&A projects and tax impact analysis.

Firm overview

Founder, Manuel Gonçalves, the first President of the Angola Bar Association (Ordem dos Advogados de Angola), and has a cohesive, experienced and multidisciplinary team of skilled professionals at various levels of seniority. Currently with a team of 13 Lawyers and 

Consultants, and located in the financial centre of Luanda, MG ADVOGADOS collaborates with external consultants with expertise in different areas and with international law firms, based all over the world.

MGA ADVOGADOS promotes the Luanda International Conference on arbitration, which 9th edition will be held in 2020, and the Luanda Arbitral Moot.

Firm overview

Raposo Bernardo is an international full-service law firm, with strong experience in the Angolan market.

The firm has been as involved regarding most relevant operations taken place at Lusophone countries at Africa: Angola, Cabo Verde, Guinea Bissau, Mozambique, and São Tomé and Príncipe. 

The Angola practice of Raposo Bernardo demonstrates a most sustained growth in terms of private and public operations performed by multinational leading players with sustained business interests in this rising star market. Raposo Bernardo has a team of 15 lawyers to cover the massive development of Angolan operations, demanding a strong multidisciplinary local team and the experience and expertise of the firm to run what are mainly international operations.

New investors keep reaching Angola, bringing investment intentions of huge projects. The firm has been handling foreign investment from China, Japan, USA, UK, Canada, Brazil, France, Germany or Iberia acting in sectors such as: oil & gas, renewable, banking, insurance, real estate, construction, automobile, technologies or telecommunications.