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Qi Wen Helen Guan

Position

Senior Associate

Career

Helen Guan Qiwen is an associate with Jose Lupi and specializes in arbitration, dispute resolution and litigation, and corporate, M&A and commercial in a diverse range of sectors including betting and gaming, consumer and retail, financial services, real estate, and telecom, media entertainment and technology.

Helen is qualified to practice in Macau and Mainland China. In her litigation practice, she represents a wide range of local, Chinese and international individual and corporate clients, state owned and private, in their civil, commercial, criminal and administrative proceedings, including construction, employment, immigration, marriage and inheritance disputes, and recognition and enforcement of external decisions.

Helen also has broad experience acting on several intellectual property, private equity, investment funds, securities and debt capital markets. Before joining Jose Lupi, Helen worked with a Macau local law firm for over seven years, as well as law firms in Guangzhou and Zhuhai where she acquired broad experience on litigation and all the technical aspects of commercial law.

Helen Guan Qiwen holds a Bachelor of Laws (L.L.B.) from Southwest University of Political Science and Law in Chongqing, China, where she was President of the Model United Nations Programme. She also holds a post graduate in Introduction to Macau Law from the Faculty of Law of the University of Macau, a Portuguese course from the Portuguese Institute of the Orient (IPOR), and an English Translation Course of the Sichuan International Studies University.

Helen is fluent in Cantonese and Mandarin Chinese, Portuguese and English.

Languages

Cantonese Chinese, Mandarin Chinese, Portuguese, English

Memberships

Lawyer of Macau Lawyers Association

Lawyer of All China Lawyers Association

Education

Bachelor of Laws (L.L.B.), Southwest University of Political Science and Law (Chongqing, China)

Postgraduate Diploma in Introduction to Macau Law, Faculty of Law of the University of Macau (Macau, China)

Portuguese Course, Portuguese Oriental Institute (IPOR) (Macau, China)

English Translation Course, Sichuan International Studies University (Chongqing, China)