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).