Managing Partner at Lektou

Joined the office as lawyer in 2003 and became Partner in 2006.

Has experience in gaming, corporate and M&A, capital markets, and banking and finance. Qualified to practice as lawyer in Macau, Portugal, Brazil (São Paulo), China (as cross-border Macau Lawyer), and in East Timor.

He is lecturer of Gaming Law at the Law Degree Undergraduate programme of the Lisbon School of Law – Portuguese Catholic University.

Regular contributor to legal and non-legal publications and speaker at conferences relating to the gaming industry.

English, Portuguese, French, Spanish

Macau Lawyers Association Portuguese Bar Association (Ordem dos Advogados Portugueses) Brazilian Bar Association (Ordem dos Advogados do Brasil – São Paulo) Qualified to practice as Lawyer in East Timor Justice Department of Guangdong – Cross-border Macau Lawyer (Hengqin and Shenzhen) Vice-President – Portugal-China Chamber of Commerce & Industry (CCILC) International Bar Association (IBA) International Association of Gaming Advisors (IAGA) International Masters of Gaming Law (IMGL) Hong Kong Institute of Directors Member of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (CIArb) Associate of the Hong Kong Institute of Arbitrators (HKIA) Arbitrator of Zhuhai International Court of Arbitration

LL.M Degree in Gaming Law and Regulation, William S. Boyd School of Law, University of Nevada, Las Vegas (2021). As part of the programme, he was enrolled in a legal externship with the Nevada Gaming Control Board. Postgraduate course on International Management, from the Economy Faculty of the University of Porto (2001) Law Degree from the Catholic University of Portugal, Lisbon (2000)