HPF Advogados - AVM Legal Network Member

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.