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Filipe Marques de Oliveira

Of Counsel
About
Filipe Marques de Oliveira has been involved in providing assistance on matters related to private investment projects; corporate law; foreign exchange operations; labour issues; oil and maritime activities and corporate restructuring operations for national and international companies, especially with companies with a presence in Angola.
Education
  • Master in Administrative Law, specialisation in Energy Law; Petroleum, from the Lisbon Law School of the Portuguese Catholic University, 2017
  • Law Degree, Catholic University of Lisbon Law School 2015

EXPERIENCE

  • Advising on various privatisation projects related to agri-business, oil & gas and other sectors, namely within the scope of various public tenders.
  • Foreign exchange law issues (foreign exchange transactions), in particular for the oil and gas sector (distribution of dividends, invisible transactions, others).
  • Advising on local content regulation focused on but not limited to the oil sector; construction and engineering projects; real estate, telecom; IPT; and others.
  • Advising on various private investment projects, negotiation of investment contracts, application of tax benefits, facilities and exemptions.
  • Advising in setting up companies, branches, subsidiaries and the day-to-day running of companies.
  • Participation in EPC projects relating to the construction of road infrastructure and others.
  • Support on regulatory issues within the scope of a project to develop a satellite technology which can be used to deliver signals which can be received on the ground by ordinary mobile phones.
  • Advising on an investment project following a Public Tender, for the implementation of one of Africa's largest telecommunications companies in Angola, including negotiations with the government, drafting and reviewing Investment and Concession Contracts.
  • Support for a world-leading designer and manufacturer of ultra-powerful LEO satellites on regulatory issues for the implementation in Angola of The Platform utilizes mobile spectrum that is licensed to mobile network operators.
  • Various DD’s upon the acquisition of several companies in different sectors, such as, oil and gas, technologies, banking and others.
Languages
  • Portuguese
  • English
  • Spanish

Prior Experience

2020 - Present; DLA Piper ABBC Consultant, Portugal
2020 - Present; ADCA Consultant, Luanda
2017 - 2020; Legal Advisor at one of the Big Four
2016 - 2017; Legal Advisor at the Legal Department of an Insurance Company based in Lisbon
2016 - Internship at the Legal Centre of the Presidency of the Council of Ministers (CEJUR), Portugal
2013 - Internship at a Law Firm based in Lisbon
2013 - Internship at Law Firm based in Luanda

Memberships

  • Admitted to the Portuguese Bar Association