HPF Advogados - AVM Legal Network Member > Maputo, Mozambique > Firm Profile
HPF Advogados - AVM Legal Network Member Offices
RUA DOS DESPORTISTAS
EDIFÍCIO JAT V-1, 15 ANDAR
MAPUTO
Mozambique
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HPF Advogados - AVM Legal Network Member > The Legal 500 Rankings
Mozambique > Local law firms Tier 3
The ‘collaborative, knowledgeable and results-oriented’ team at HPF Advogados - AVM Legal Network Member specialises in foreign investment matters, guiding major corporations and multinationals through structuring and implementing projects in the local market. The firm’s expertise spans capital flows, cross-border funding, regulatory compliance, and forex licensing, as well as tax structuring, sector-specific licensing, and corporate establishment. Managed by Hélder Paulo Frechaut, an expert in banking, finance, insurance, and commercial law, the group benefits from Gisela Teresa’s experience in litigation, administrative law, tax, and labour matters.Practice head(s):
Hélder Paulo Frechaut
Other key lawyers:
Testimonials
‘The team at HPF are very collaborative, knowledgeable and results-oriented.’
‘They are able to work with deadlines and keep to promises.’
‘The team are very professional and knowledgeable in their respective fields.’
‘They are always willing to go the extra mile – even with clients that are not proficient in Portuguese.’
Key clients
ACCESS BANK Mozambique E S.A
Banco LETSHEGO S.A
Banco Nacional de Investimentos SA
MCD – Marulo, Comercio e Distribuição, Lda
Weco Bulk Asia pte Ltd
Eastern Multitrans Logistics Private Ltd.
Cicoti Lda
Industrial Development Corporation of South Africa Limited
JCDECAUX S.A
AECOM S.A
PONTICELLI FRÈS GROUP
Nokia Solutions and Networks Branch Operations Mozambique
HPF Advogados - AVM Legal Network Member > Firm Profile
The firm: HPF Advogados comprises a solid multidisciplinary team of Mozambican jurists who have profound knowledge of the local jurisdictions and culture. This team is fully aligned with AVM’s professional and scrupulous philosophy of providing an efficient delivery to client’s needs and challenges of the new social Mozambican reality.
HPF Advogados is the founding member of AVM Legal Network. The notable expansion noted in the last few years, both in terms of human resources as well as work volume, allowed AVM Legal Network to stand out as the reference name for Lusophony law. The existing synergies of HPF Advogados with the remaining offices of AVM Legal Network confer the former an international dimension.
Areas of practice
Banking, finance and insurance: HPF Advogados has a specialist banking and finance practice in the areas of including syndicated lending and leveraged and acquisition finance, asset finance, project finance, financial regulatory, insolvency and restructuring, debt capital markets, equity capital markets, structured debt and structured finance. HPF Advogados provides legal services to leading investment banks, insurance companies, other financial institutions, private entities and governmental agencies.
HPF Advogados lawyers’ have broad experience in working on all banking and finance matters, such as loan agreements, drafting related security documents, real estate contracts, private equity contracts, structuring joint-venture vehicles.
This department has also acted for Banks on disposals or acquisitions and advises on an ongoing basis advises its Banking clients on the requirements of Governments and regulators in the jurisdictions we work in on all aspects of financial services regulation.
Energy and natural resources: HPF Advogados has a specialist energy practice in the areas of oil and gas, electricity, water sectors and alternative energies. HPF Advogados provides legal services to power producers; oil and gas producers and transporters; power plants; trade associations; energy developers, investors and lenders involved in and with the energy industry, as well as to several different service providers to the oil and gas industry.
In the oil and gas sector, HPF Advogados has represented governments sponsors, and investors in large complex projects including the privatization of oil and gas enterprises, the construction of cross-border pipelines, and the negotiation of gas and oil production agreements. HPF Advogados oil and gas lawyers have considerable experience on working on all aspects of oil and gas matters and projects, from production, processing, refining, trading, storage, transmission, distribution to the point of sale.
HPF Advogados teams of lawyers are very familiar with advising clients on all aspects of the development process, including environmental assessment, negotiations with regulatory authorities and public inquiries and have also given environmental advice in several operations regarding gas storage developments and oil refineries.
In the energy sector HPF Advogados has also broad experience in advising on compliance, including explaining what in practical terms is required to comply with the existing legislative framework including environmental law. HPF Advogados has built up significant experience in advising on the environmental, planning and approval aspects of energy and utilities projects.
Main Contacts
Department | Name | Telephone | |
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HPF Advogados - AVM Legal Network Member | [email protected] | +258 213 170 05 |
Languages
English Portuguese- Local law firms