Miriam Enes Baganha
Lawyer

Miriam Enes Baganha

Miriam Enes Baganha joined the FC Law legal team in 2018 and has since been working as a jurist mainly in the areas of labour and commercial law.

Prior to coming to Macau, she worked as a lawyer for two major law firms in Portugal and then joined the leading Portuguese IT Group as a senior lawyer.

Miriam has advised both national and international clients in various M&A operations, with the negotiation of international commercial contracts and also provided regular assistance to clients on their ongoing commercial activities. Miriam also focused on Administrative and Competition Law and worked on international public tenders and project finance. She has also worked for the Court of Justice of the European Union as a free-lance linguist lawyer.

Education

  • Post-Graduation, Information Society, Copyright Law and E-commerce; Lisbon University, School of Law and Portuguese Association of Intellectual Law (2008);
  • Post-Graduation, Tax Management, ISCTE (2003);
  • Law Degree, Lisbon University, School of Law (1996);
  • Diplôme du Baccalauréat des Lycées (1991).

Membership

  • Portuguese Bar Association (1999).
Paulo Cordeiro de Sousa
Lawyer

Paulo Cordeiro de Sousa

Paulo joined FCLaw Lawyers & Private Notaries in 2016 and leads the “Tax and Cross-Country Investment” department.

Paulo was a tax partner at Abreu Advogados, one of the major law firms in Portugal and before that, he was the head of the tax department at Albuquerque & Associados – Sociedade de Advogados, also a leading law firm in Lisbon.
He has also worked as legal adviser for a leading bank in Luanda, Angola. Paulo has been working in tax law since 1992 and his practice includes tax litigation in the Macanese, Portuguese, Angolan and Equatorial Guinean jurisdictions (mostly related to the oil & gas sector in the last two jurisdictions).

Paulo contributes to a large circulation local newspaper with monthly articles on Macanese tax-related matters.

Education

  • Graduated in Law at the Faculty of Law of the Lisbon University in 1992.
  • Post-graduated in Business Management and Tax, Institute of Higher Financial and Tax Studies in 1993.
  • Completed the coursework for the post-graduation programme in Intellectual Property at the Faculty of Law of the Lisbon University and Portuguese Intellectual Property Association in 2014.

Membership

  • Macau Lawyers Association (admitted in 2016).
  • Portuguese Bar Association (admitted in 1994).
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).