PRACTICE AREAS
Administrative Law
Lektou regularly advises its clients on their legal issues and represents them in public tenders and administrative proceedings.
Arbitration and Alternative Dispute Resolution
Lektou offers arbitration services as alternative dispute resolution, counting with a team of lawyers with specialized training in Arbitration.
Banking and Financial
Lektou has experience in advising and assisting banks and other financial institutions, insurance companies, as well as in transactions involving Macau SAR banks, branches of overseas banks and financial companies.
Capital Markets
Lektou provides capital markets services to major market participants as well as to new investors. Lektou offers advice on public offerings for underwriting, selling, acquiring and trading, as well as dealing in securities and financial instruments.
Civil Law
The office provides legal services related to Civil Law, including advising and assisting in the preparation and revision of contracts of all types as well as successions.
Commercial and Corporate
Lektou provides a wide range of services related to corporate and commercial law, that include consultancy for companies, partnerships and joint-ventures, as well as in the acquisition and sale of companies, conducting legal due diligence, advising on transactions scope and structure and preparing all necessary documents.
Criminal
Lektou works on the field of criminal responsibility and criminal law, helping its Clients in all their legal needs.
Energy
Family
Lektou operates on the field of Family Law, namely in advising on marriage, divorce, adoption and regulation of paternal power.
Games of Fortune
Lektou provides legal assistance to different local and international clients in the area of Gaming Law. Since the liberalization of the gaming industry in Macau, which occurred in 2002, that our office has been providing legal assistance to different entities on this area, as well as other ancillary industries: hospitality, entertainment and other service providers. The law office has been featured in Gaming Law reference publications such as The Gambling Law Review and The Comparative Legal Guides to Gambling.
Information Technology
Insurance
Lektou advises its Clients on complex transactions, disputes, financing and regulatory matters.
Intellectual Property
Lektou is experienced in advising on all IP aspects, as well as telecommunications, media and technology. Our team members are experienced in structuring and negotiating contracts on these areas of law and in assisting the Clients in the licensing processes with Macau authorities.
Labour
The firm advises its clients on the Macau labour law, including on the pre-contractual issues, as well as on the drafting of contracts and in proceedings held on the Macau Courts.
Litigation
The firm’s lawyers advise and represent clients in court cases in Macau and arbitration proceedings (both in Macau and PRC).
Mergers and Acquisitions
Lektou offers Mergers and Acquisitions services, including advice on buying assets and managing acquisitions.
Offshore Services
Public Concessions
Public Law
Real Estate
Lektou is experienced in advising local and international construction companies and investors on its projects and developments in Macau, including in the contractual negotiation, drafting of construction contracts, as well as in the acquisition and lease of industrial and residential properties in Macau and petitioning lands for concession.
Tax Law
Lektou provides advice on the Macau tax legal frame for the entire range of commercial transactions.
Tourism