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Lei & Associados – Sociedade de Advogados, LDA, hereinafter referred to as LA, is a company governed by Mozambican law, founded in 2017 by national and international lawyers. LA is registered with the Legal Entities Registry Office and is duly authorized by the Mozambican Bar Association for the full exercise of its activities.

The firm has a young, diverse, committed work team, experienced and deeply knowledgeable with Mozambican law. LA currently provides services in several areas of legal knowledge, within general business law. As a firm that specializes in the commercial area, LA is renowned within the market by national and international institutions (of Portuguese, American and Chinese investment).

Being a company with great expansion in the market and one of the most dynamic in Mozambique, LA’s attorneys strive to satisfy the needs of clients and assume themselves as a partner in any project carried out in Mozambique or internationally.

Our values

• Based on a strict ethical code, LA seeks excellence in order to respond in the most efficient way to the needs of its clients, investing in the provision of quality services with effective added value.
• The personal and professional valuation of lawyers and technological investment are a priority for LA. We intend our law firm to be an institution that lasts far beyond the partners who founded it and those who integrate it. The LA team assumes total dedication and perseverance in relation to the matters of its clients, treated on the basis of rigor, responsibility and competence.
• Our firm provides services in several practice areas that correspond to different branches of law.
• Each lawyer integrates one or more practice areas, depending on their professional practice and academic specializations.
• We support our clients in a personalized way, with a view to finding innovative legal solutions for each project.
• Our team is prepared to provide our clients with the best quality services and the highest professionalism, with the aim of constantly satisfying the interests of the people and entities that come to us.
• Being a young, dynamic and technically well prepared team, we make every effort to constantly and continuously update on what surrounds us, investing in training and new learning.
• One of the main characteristics of our team is its ability to communicate with clients in their native language. All of our employees are fluent in at least two languages.
• Always following computer innovations and innovations in terms of communication,  its employees, are experienced users of new technology information, making them indispensable tools for their work.

Our services: We have a professional team prepared to respond to the needs of all Mozambican or international clients who want to invest both within, or outside, of Mozambique. It is our aim to carry on the continuous training of our team towards their professional development as well as honing their personal skills, this way, we assure our clients we present the most appropriate, solidly built legal solutions.

Our specialized technical staff act with high ethics and respect the particularities of the process entrusted to them, being faithful to the criteria suggested by the client for an adequate solution to the needs of each specific case, always with respect to legality.

The firm’s commercial lawyers have a deep understanding of business. A critical and peculiar feature of commercial law is the need to have a rich understanding of how individual businesses operate. The firm’s clients range from local businesses to multinational corporations and global financial institutions.

LA’s main activity is the practice of law and legal advice, with a greater focus on the following areas:

Business law: where our focus is directed to compliance and corporate management

• Company law in general, negotiation and elaboration of commercial agreements between companies
• Contracts in general
• Legal advice in the area of ​​commercial representation etc

Banking and insurance: constitution and registration of banking and insurance institutions

• Constitution and registration of banking and insurance institutions
• Authorization for the use of new banking and insurance products
• Assistance in the drafting of procedural rules and service orders
• Assistance in drafting and reviewing financing contracts (including guarantees
• Debt restructuring and refinancing
• Preparation and review of policies
• Advice on insurance underwriting matters
• Preparation and review of policies
• Relations with the Supervisory Authority; credit recovery assistance

Labor law: assistance in the interpretation and application of labor legislation

• Consultancy in strategic management in the area of ​​human resources
• Drafting and reviewing collective or individual employment contracts
• Elaboration of disciplinary proceedings
• Participation in labor mediation sessions
• General or specific job audit
• Negotiation with unions
• Defense and monitoring of labor litigation processes

Foreign exchange and investment law:  registration of foreign investors

• Investment authorization processes
• Corporate governance and compliance
• Approval of internal and external loans
• Authorization to import funds
• Repatriation of capital

General civil law:  legal guidance and advice

• Consulting, drafting and reviewing contracts of any nature
• Consultancy in the real estate industry, property and ownership law
• Civil liabilities in general
• Legal guidance on family law and succession law in general

Mining: we do focus on  due diligence and also the elaboration of the respective reports on the mining project and projects relating to the mining area, participating in the structuring of business projects and respective implementation and so on.

Real estate: LA has extensive experience and participates in legal assistance and advice from the beginning until the completion of investments made in this area, namely the DUAT order and regularization process, construction license application, respective usage certificates, property registers of the properties, as well as the drafting of a works contract and contracts for the purchase and sale of real estate (including assistance in the entire process of transferring the right to property) or leasing.

Lawyer Profiles

Photo	Name	Position	Profile
	Mr Nelson Cossa	Trainee Lawyer	View Profile
	Mr Julião Massingue	Trainee Lawyer	View Profile
	Mr Alcides Nobela	Partner Founder	View Profile
	Ms Laura Tembe	Trainee Lawyer	View Profile
	Ms Carmen Ustá	Senior-Lawyer	View Profile
	Mr Lei Yang	Partner Founder	View Profile