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We are a leading national independent law firm in Portugal, specialising in corporate legal advice, with one of the largest teams of lawyers in the country. We have been leading the way for over 50 years and are proud of the culture we have built. We see our clients' challenges as our own and we put our people at the heart of our strategy to consistently excel in delivering value to everyone who places their trust in us.

Our teams are made up of the best lawyers in the country, we offer a full service and we take a multidisciplinary approach. The agility of our teams, combined with in-depth knowledge of the sectors in which our clients operate, is a defining characteristic of the way we position ourselves: as true legal partners. The only complexity we embrace is the complexity of the challenges our clients bring to us. In delivering solutions, we are passionate about clear communication and work with a strong focus on desired outcomes. We believe in long-term, transparent and committed relationships.

Inotec, S.A. is a company with Angolan rights and capitals, created in October 2007, specialized in integrated products and services of industrial engineering with high incorporation of technology.

Currently Inotec, S.A. has a large team that enriches the services provided through back stopping suitable for the quality and excellence of its professionals.

Inotec has conquered and consolidated its position as market leader acting in the areas of design, installation, supply and infrastructures and equipmen maintenance.

MIRANDA & ASSOCIADOS (“Miranda”) is a full-service Portuguese law firm, head-quartered in Lisbon, Portugal. The Firm has a staff of almost 160 people, of which more than 110 are fee-earners. Over the years, the Firm has gained recognition as one of the most preeminent and internationally oriented Portuguese law firms.

Their aim is to combine the highest international standards with local expertise so they can provide a seamless assistance to the top corporations in their most important and challenging assignments, both in Portugal and overseas.

Through over almost 35 years of experience, our lawyers have developed extensive and widely recognized expertise in a large number of industries and fields of law.

MIRANDA is the founding member of the MIRANDA ALLIANCE (“Miranda Alliance”), a network of law firms and lawyers predominantly, but not exclusively, based in Portuguese-speaking countries. The Miranda Alliance currently covers 15 jurisdictions: Angola, Cameroon, Cape Verde, Côte d’Ivoire, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Guinea-Bissau, Macau (China), Mozambique, Portugal, Republic of the Congo, Senegal, São Tomé and Príncipe and Timor-Leste; and with a liaison office in the USA (Houston).

As a full service legal services provider, they are ranked in various categories and practice areas. Highlights include the International Law Firm of the Year at the Africa Legal Awards in 2019, and the recognition as the winner of Lusophone Africa Law Firm of the Year in the Chambers Africa Awards in the only four editions of this category - 2018, 2021, 2022 and 2023.

Linklaters advises some of the largest companies and financial institutions in the world, as well as States and public entities, in their most demanding transactions and activities. With 30 offices in the world's largest business and financial centres located in 20 different countries, Linklaters has sought to honour its customers’ trust by combining not only technical expertise and understanding of their interests and activities, as well as ensuring a level of services compatible with the requirements of the transactions in which they intervene and the entities to which it renders services. Having started its activity in March 2002, Linklaters, in Lisbon, was the first of the Magic Circle law firms to establish a presence in Portugal, in order to serve its clients in this country, in its activities in the Iberian Peninsula and around the world.

Mewton creates value by developing and implementing tailor-made and sustainable energy solutions. We analyze your specific needs and develop, build, and operate customized solutions ranging from 1 to 100MW and above.

Quadrante Group, with more than 20 years of experience, provides engineering and architecture consulting services in the areas of Buildings, Transports, Industry and Energy, Water Utilities, Environment and Climate Change, and multidisciplinary projects located anywhere in the world, where flexibility, adaptability to specific conditions and speed of delivery are essential conditions for success. With a team of 170 employees and offices in three continents, our mission is focused on the continuous pursue for sustainable, economically optimized and technically advanced solutions – DESIGNING . DELIVERING . ADDING VALUE

Rosseti Engenharia, a Luso-Brazilian company with more than 10 years of experience and in strong expansion, provides integrated services under EPC and BoP in the field of Renewable Energies, namely Solar, Wind and Water.

Trama TecnoAmbiental (TTA), based in Barcelona, Spain, is an international consulting and engineering company that specializes in distributed generation through renewable energy sources, energy management and efficiency, rural electrification, self-generation, integration of renewables in buildings, sustainable architecture, as well as, specialized training, education and technological development related to its activities.

A pioneering company in this sector with more than 30 years of experience, TTA offers its clients a solid background in carrying out projects from their evaluation and design phases, through to implementation and subsequent monitoring and maintenance.

TTA’s execution of numerous studies and projects, in Spain as well as in more than 40 countries in Latin America, Africa, Oceania and Europe and more recently in Asia, has consolidated the company as a point of reference in rural electrification through Microgrids using Solar Generation. TTA also offers services from its regional unit in Kenya and its office in Vanuatu.

TTA’s projects demonstrate the skills, flexibility and strong technical background of its highly motivated, multidisciplinary team, as well as the company’s firm commitment to providing high quality services and solutions that are technically, socially and environmentally optimal, integrating and harmonizing the needs of its clients with those of all related parties.

Hidroerg is dedicated to the design, execution, operation and management of systems for electricity production from renewable natural resources. Established in 1989, it operates jointly with its subsidiaries nine power plants with an installed capacity of 33 MW and an annual output of 100 GWh. It aims to be a reference in the renewable energy sector, with a greater focus on water resources, within a framework of sustainable development and social and economic value generation in the areas where it operates.

Uría Menéndez - Proença de Carvalho is a law firm dedicated to providing legal advice in all areas of business law, especially in the field of commercial and financial law. It also has very relevant experience in energy law, regularly advising promoters and financial entities.

CJR Renewables offers an EPC/BoP integrated service for the construction of wind farms. Operating across all stages of the process of implantation of a project and offering turnkey solutions. Founded in 2002, CJR Wind is present in Europe and Latin America.

GreenLight Africa is a regional company with a base in Mozambique which has been developing projects and consulting since 2010 in two specific areas, namely: Energy and Environment.

In the Energy Sector, GreenLight focuses on off-grid and on-grid Solar, Wind, Hydro and Biofuels projects. We have experience in Residential and Industrial Energy Efficiency, Sustainable Charcoal Production and Improved and Efficient Cook-Stoves. We provide technical support to a mix of stakeholders including private sector, government, development organizations and funding institutions. The scope of projects includes the development of feasibility studies; business models; monitoring and evaluations, fund management, market research; baseline studies; management of pilot projects; policy analysis and capacity building initiatives directed at state agencies and ministries.

In the Environmental Sector, GreenLight offers services in the field of Environmental and Social Impact Assessment, Environmental Audits, Resettlement and Communication Plans, Monitoring of Environmental Parameters, ESGs, Adaptation and mitigation of Climate Change, Climate Financing, Monitoring and Evaluation, as well as Feasibility Studies of Projects and Investments.

Services are specifically tailored by the multidisciplinary team to meet the specific needs of clients as well as the local conditions to where the projects are implemented.

Huawei Digital Power is a leading global provider of digital power products and solutions. We are committed to integrating digital and power electronics technologies, developing clean power, and enabling energy digitalization to drive energy revolution for a better, greener future. In the clean power generation sector, we help create new power systems that primarily rely on renewable energy, Huawei's inverter shipment has been the top for many years. The new energy storage system brings stable and efficient user experience to customers. ICT enablement enables visualized site O&M and reduces O&M costs. we provide All-Scenario Smart PV+Storage Solution according to your requirements, from residential rooftop to Utility-scale Plant, Huawei Digital Power continues innovating through open collaboration with global partners to promote carbon neutrality.

VPQ Advogados is a Cape Verdean full-service law firm.

It emerges with a clear project to adapt to the expectations of local and international clients, combining high technical expertise with in‑depth knowledge of the market.

As an exclusive member for Cape Verde of Morais Leitão Legal Circle, a network of leading Portuguese-speaking law firms, which includes Morais Leitão in Portugal, ALC Advogados in Angola and MDR Advogados, VPQ Advogados is part of an international team with more than 250 lawyers available to work in Portuguese-speaking countries, ensuring the best possible response to the needs of clients in the most varied jurisdictions, namely in Angola, Cape Verde, Mozambique and Portugal.

Gaia is a boutique consulting firm with a focus on the fields of energy, environment and sustainability dedicated to helping businesses, cooperation partners, governments and civil society in Sub-Saharan Africa in changing their narrative towards unlocking the spirit of Ubuntu. Ubuntu revolves around the concept of togetherness and how our actions have an impact on others and society.

Gaia wants to support the transition to a sustainable low carbon future and drive transformation towards a more sustainable and equitable future for all. Gender empowerment and social inclusion is a cross-cutting theme in our path to change the world.

Telectrinf  is a 100% Angolan company that operates in the areas of Energy, Telecommunications, Airports, Air Conditioning Systems and grid supervision for industry and agriculture, and hydromechanical and electromechanical installations.

NAVEX, part of GRUPO ETE, is the largest Shipping Agent in Portugal and a leading Logistics Operator. Present in mainland Portugal, Madeira, Azores, Cape Verde and Belgium NAVEX with more than 50 years experience servicing all types of vessels and cargoes. NAVEX aims to build solid partnerships with Portuguese and Cape Verdean exporters and importers. This goal is materialized by designing the best multimodal transport solutions, whether containerized, general cargo or project cargo, capitalizing on the Group´s synergies and the vast International network in which it is integrated.

MDR Advogados is composed by a team of lawyers registered in the Mozambique Bar Association, recognised for our work in strategic sectors such as banking and financial services, energy and natural resources and domestic and foreign private investment.

 Our clients may always rely on a balanced combination of knowledge of the Mozambican legal landscape with experience and participation in complex international transactions.
At MDR Advogados, we provide a global service, responding to the needs of domestic and international clients, both in terms of day-to-day support and in strategic project assistance. Our lawyers have highly relevant experience in foreign investment, banking and finance, regulation, business and corporate and project finance support.

Now that Mozambique is experiencing rapid and permanent growth, MDR Advogados stands out in the Mozambican market as a touchstone for legal services provision, dedication to client demands and articulation with international networks.

APP-Lda was established in 2000 to provide integrated management of energy, water and sanitation services in Urb. De Ponta Preta (Ilha do Sal-Cabo Verde). We work for sustainable development and believe in the energy transition.

Cabeólica, SA is an innovative Cape Verdean company within the national wind energy sector. Its 4 wind farms produce roughly 25% of the electricity demand of the country, enabling Cape Verde to be placed amongst the countries with the highest wind energy penetration worldwide.

Taciana Peão Lopes e Advogados Associados, Lda. - TPLA Law Firm - is a boutique law firm, registered at the Mozambican Bar Association.

TPLA Law Firm regularly advises developers, sponsors, investors, multinational lenders and the Government of Mozambique in key focus areas. The team members possess significant experience in transactions involving foreign investment in Mozambique and combine their understanding of the global energy business environment with a proven track record in energy transactions, disputes and regulatory/legislative matters across all segments of the mining, energy and oil & gas industries in Mozambique.

EDM - Electricidade de Moçambique, E.P. is the Mozambican state company responsible for Generation, Transmission and Distribution of electricity.

ASAER - Angolan Renewable Energy Association is a private, non-profit entity, with legal and administrative personality, financial and equity autonomy, constituted for an indefinite period, with companies, institutions and individuals as members, concerned about the development of renewable energy in Angola.

Founded in 2020, ASAER’s mission is to promote renewable energy in Angola, establishing links with different stakeholders, public and private - business, institutional and training - in this market sector, promoting private investment in renewable energies, publicizing, participating and establishing partnerships with all entities that can guarantee a green and sustainable future in Angola.

AMER - Mozambican Renewable Energy Association is a private, non-profit entity, with legal and administrative personality, financial and patrimonial autonomy, constituted for an indefinite period.

Founded in 2017, AMER’s mission is to promote renewable energy in Mozambique and aims to play a crucial role in coordinating representation and defending the common interests of all members and serving as an essential instrument for the participation and awareness of the enhancement of renewable energy natural resources for the sustainable development of Mozambique.

APREN – the Portuguese Renewable Energy Association, is a non-profit association, founded in 1988, with the mission of coordinate, represent and defend the common interests of its Associates. APREN develops its work together with official authorities and other similar entities, nationally and internationally, being an important key player in the development of energy policies for Portugal, promoting the deployment of renewable resources for electricity production.

LNEG is a State Laboratory acting in the fields of Energy and Geology that conducts research, demonstration and knowledge transfer including technical and technological assistance and laboratory support aimed at companies.

INEGI is a University-Industry Interface Institution dedicated to the realization of Innovation Activity and Technology Transfer oriented to the industrial fabric. Born in 1986 within the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Industrial Management, Faculty of Engineering, University of Porto. With legal status of Private Non-Profit Association and with the status of «Public Utility», it assumes itself as an active agent in the development of the Portuguese industrial fabric and in the transformation of the competitive model of the national industry.

TESE is a Portuguese Development NGO that promotes sustainable access to social services and infrastructure, including renewable energies. Given our mission, we are focused in implementation of projects/consulting services linking the use of modern, reliable and affordable energy with the improvement of living conditions and income generation.