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).
