Ricardo Figueiredo Lopes
Lawyer

Ricardo Figueiredo Lopes

Joined FCLaw Lawyers & Private Notaries in 2015.

He has been working in the areas of litigation, notably civil, commercial and administrative law, general corporate law and real estate, as well in legal counseling, particularly on commercial, corporate and aviation.

Practiced, as a lawyer, in Lisbon from 2005 to 2013 as head the litigation department and team leader in legal advice for real estate companies and banking sector. He was also responsible for client management, quality management and marketing.

Education

  • Graduated in Law at Faculty of Law of the Lusíada University in 2003.
  • Executive Master-graduated in Business Management at the Católica Porto Business School in 2009.

Membership

  • Macau Lawyers Association (admitted in 2013).
  • Portuguese Bar Association (admitted in 2005).
Rodrigo Mendia de Castro
Lawyer

Rodrigo Mendia de Castro

Rodrigo founded FCLaw Lawyers & Private Notaries in 2003 and is a highly regarded lawyer in Macau. As the head of the commercial and financing departments, he has been assisting financial institutions, banks, developers, luxury retailers, gaming operators, construction companies, real estate owners and aviation leasing companies in their financing, set up, acquisitions, spin-off and restructure of the full scope of their business operations, participating in most of the largest commercial and finance projects and transactions over the past years and representing most of the key economic players.

He is also actively involved in the litigation department, with most pending cases in court, and represented the Macau Government, namely the Public Works Department, on disputes against engineers and architects. According to the website of the Macau Courts, he is the lawyer with one of the highest number of attendances at Court Hearings in Macau.

He acted as legal adviser in the first listing and initial public offering of a Macau construction entity on the Main Board of The Stock Exchange of Hong Kong Limited and, since then, has been acting in all subsequent listings and initial public offerings of Macau entities with all sort of activities. He has been acting in arbitrations in Hong Kong as an expert witness on Macau law.

He is co-author of the Macau Chapter of the book “International Franchise Sales Laws, Second Edition”, edited and published by the American Bar Association, and has published articles in the Asian Gaming Lawyer magazine.

Education

  • Graduated in Law at the Faculty of Law of the Lusíada University in 1993.

Membership

  • Macau Lawyers Association (admitted in 2001).
  • Portuguese Bar Association (admitted in 1995).
Fong Kin Ip
Lawyer

Fong Kin Ip

Fong founded FCLaw Lawyers & Private Notaries in 2003 and he is a leading lawyer in Macau, specializing in civil and commercial law.

He is one of the few fully trilingual lawyers in Macau (Chinese, Portuguese and English) and has lectured Civil Law at the Law Faculty of the Macau University.

Education

  • Graduated in Law at the Faculty of Law of the Catholic University of Lisbon in 1995.

Membership

  • Macau Lawyers Association (admitted in 1997).
Miguel Quental
Lawyer

Miguel Quental

Joined FCLaw Lawyers & Private Notaries in 2007 and became a partner in 2014.

His areas of practice are mainly labour, civil and commercial. He is the lawyer responsible for the biggest labour litigation dispute in Macau and, according to the website of the Macau Courts, he is the lawyer with the highest number of attendances at Court Hearings in Macau.

He is a lecturer in the Faculty of Law of the University of Macau since 2002 where teaches Introduction to Law, Labour Law and Commercial Law I and II and is the executive coordinator of the Bulletin of the Faculty of Law of the University of Macau.

He was instructor at the “Training and Improvement of Legal Language Course” and at the “Labour Law Training Course”, organized by the Legal and Judicial Training Centre of Macau, invited consultant for the Department of Juridical Reform in the project “Revision of the Commercial Code of Macau”, coordinator of the “Course of Labour Law for Inspectors of the Bureau of Labour and Employment” and of the “Advanced Course in Labour Law for Inspectors”, organized by the Macau Labour Affairs Bureau and instructor of the module “Labour Law” for the Course of Professional Training – Public Prosecutors, organized by Legal and Judicial Training Centre of Macau.

He is the author of the book on “Macau Labour Law”, often referred by lawyers and courts in labour disputes, and published several articles on Labour matters in the Bulletin of the Faculty of Law of the University of Macau.

Education

  • Graduated in Law at the Faculty of Law of the University of Coimbra in 2000.
  • Attended Post-graduation course in Planning and Urbanism at the Law Faculty of the University of Coimbra in 2001-2002.
  • Attended Post-graduation course in Labour and Employment Law at Law Faculty of the University of Coimbra in 2001-2002.
  • Master in Juridical Business Sciences at the Law Faculty of the University of Coimbra in 2007.

Membership

  • Macau Lawyers Association (admitted in 2011).
  • Portuguese Bar Association (admitted in 2002).
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