We are thrilled to announce that this year, we have the pleasure of welcoming three talented law students from Universidade Católica|Faculdade de Direito de Lisboa, Donald Ming, Iok Hou Lei, and Salvador Botelho Santos, as summer interns in our Lisbon office. At Lektou, we are committed to providing valuable opportunities for young professionals to grow
The IFLR1000 2023 Rankings have been released! We are delighted to announce that once again our firm has been ranked in Tier 1 in the Financial and Corporate section. Our lawyers continue to maintain a great performance, with our Frederico Rato and Pedro Cortés distinguished once again as Highly Regarded Lawyers. Our Lei Wun Kong
The Macau Chapter authored by Helena Nazaré Valente is now available in the Chambers and Partners Corporate Immigration 2023 Global Practice Guide. This comprehensive publication offers up-to-date legal insights into corporate immigration policies, visa options and requirements, immigration processes, and immigration enforcement systems across different jurisdictions. You may view the Guide here: https://bit.ly/3XWhbVO
Lexology Getting The Deal Through – Gaming 2023 is live now! Our Pedro Cortés contributed with the Macau Chapter. You may read the chapter here: https://lnkd.in/ershjwj4
We were honoured to host lawyers from Zhejiang Province of China in our Macau office. Our partners had a friendly discussion, with Paula Ling delivering a presentation on the firm’s overview, team members, practice areas and development strategies. San Chi Chang gave a presentation on Macau’s corporate and taxation systems. Frederico Rato and Calvin Chui exchanged views with the lawyers on
This year we are pleased to have summer interns Ian Cheok Lam, Qiu Tianmei, Mak Wai In and Chong I Lam in our Macau office. We hope they will enjoy their experience here and develop their skills. We wish them all the best for this new challenge! Our summer internship programme is designed to bring
Law 7/2023, passed by the Legislative Assembly on May 18th, 2023, which approved the Residency Scheme for Highly Qualified Workers (“Talents”), was finally regulated by Administrative Regulation 19/2023, which entered into force on July 1st, 2023. Introduced by the Macao Government back in 2021, the new System is now a reality. The new Legal System
Our Pedro Cortés co-authored with Anthony Cabot and António Lobo Vilela an academic paper “Comparing Gaming Regulatory Systems in Civil and Common Law Countries: How Different Approaches Can Achieve the Same Policy Goals” which was published in the UNLV Gaming Law Journal, Vol. 13: Iss: 2. Available here: https://scholars.law.unlv.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1210&context=glj The paper compares two regulatory systems:
Our Luís Rôlo contributed once again the Macau Employment to OneTrust DataGuidance, an industry-leading privacy and data protection research platform. The chapter focuses on the key privacy laws related to employment under Macau law. You can view the chapter here: https://www.dataguidance.com/notes/macau-employment
Our Helena Nazaré Valente and Marta Mourão contributed to Thomson Reuters Practical Law with Arbitration Procedures and Practice in Macau: Overview, which provides a structured overview of the key practical issues concerning arbitration in the Macau Special Administrative Region, including any mandatory provisions and default rules applicable under local law, confidentiality, local courts’ willingness to