We are pleased to announce that Jacky Lai Kin Hong will join FCLaw Lawyers and Private Notaries as Partner and Nana Kuok Chong Na as Associate.
Jacky was in MdME Lawyers for almost 10 years and is one of Macau’s leading Chinese speaking lawyers in his areas of expertise, namely Banking & Finance, Real Estate and Capital Markets. Click here for his full profile.
Nana is a lawyer who has experience advising Macau companies, banks, real estate developers and investors. Click here for her full profile.
Our team has now a total of 14 lawyers and 5 trainees, which makes us one of the largest law firms in Macau.
Our lawyer Paulo Cordeiro de Sousa wrote one more article in the Macau Daily Times regarding tax measures adopted by the Macau SAR authorities against real estate speculation.
A delegation from the People’s Political Consultative Committee led by Mr. Zheng Zhengtao, Member of the People’s Political Consultative Committee, and Mr Guo Jun, Member of the Standing Committee of the Guojun Provincial CPPCC, Director of the Science, Education and Health Committee and Director of the State Key Laboratory of Applied Microbiology in South China, visited our office and met the Partners Rodrigo Mendia de Castro and Miguel Quental and the Chief Operating Officer Wong Oi Man.
The purpose of the visit of the delegation to Macau was to prepare the third quarter Standing Committee Conference, learning about Macau intellectual property regulations and listening to opinions on how could the intellectual property protection effectively work in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macau Great Bay in an integrated manner.
The Partners Rodrigo Mendia de Castro and Miguel Quental were proud to share and discuss with the members of the delegation their opinions and thoughts.
The other members of the delegation were, Wu Shourong, Deputy Secretary General of the CPPCC, Deputy Director of the Science, Education and Health Committee of the Political Consultative Committee, Ma Xianmin, Deputy Secretary of the Party Committee of the Provincial Market Supervision Administration (Intellectual Property Administration), Director of the Provincial Intellectual Property Protection Center, Secretary of the Party Committee, Liu Liqiang, Deputy director of the Provincial Committee of Science and Education, Wei Dongyuan, Director of Guangdong Science and Technology Library (Guangdong Institute of Scientific & Technical Information and Development Strategy), Zhu Lin, Director of Guangdong Creative Center, Guangdong Science and Technology Library (Guangdong Science and Technology Information and Development Strategy Institute), Di Chuanqiang, Secretary of Zheng Zhengtao, Li Ziling, Director of Hong Kong and Macao Affairs Office, People’s Government of Guangdong Province, Yang Yi, Coordinator of Hong Kong and Macao Affairs Office, People’s Government of Guangdong Province, and Zhang Tao, Director of the Office of the Science and Education and Health Committee of the Political Consultative Committee.
FCLaw partner, Jorge Menezes, published an opinion article on the Macau Daily Times with a critical analysis of the judicial culture and procedural rules governing criminal trials in Macau.
In this widely read piece, Menezes puts forth a critique of the dynamics of criminal trials, questioning the conditions of fair process and of judges’ impartiality, concluding that “Macau’s criminal system, although defective and performing below its due, still seems to work in a relatively satisfactory fashion, not thanks to its design, but in spite of it, due to publicity, free press, general ethics, and a judicial culture inherited and shared by judges.”
Our lawyer Paulo Cordeiro de Sousa wrote one more article in the Macau Daily Times regarding the Closer Economic Partnership Arrangement (CEPA) between Hong Kong and Macao.
A delegation from the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences of the Institute of International Law from Mainland China composed by Professor (Ph.D) Mo Jihong, Professor of Law (Ph.D) Li Zhong, Associate Professor of Law Dr Qingming Li and Assistant Professor (Ph.D) David Fu visited our office and met the Partners Rodrigo Mendia de Castro, Miguel Quental and Jorge Menezes and the Associate Paulo Cordeiro de Sousa and the Chief Operating Officer Wong Oi Man, with whom, among other topics, maintained a meaningful conversation about the role of Macau in China's Belt and Road Initiative.
FC Law’s Labour Law Team, led by our partner Miguel Quental, surpassed the 100-threshold of successful judgments, delivered during 2019, awarding compensation sought by employees against local corporation for legal breaches.
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