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SAL & Caldeira Advogados, Lda., is a leading, full-service Mozambican law firm headquartered in Maputo and with offices in Tete, Pemba and a liaison office in Beira. The firm strives to combine local experience with international best practice to offer high quality legal services. It not only offers expert knowledge in its key practice areas but also works actively on legal reform in Mozambique. The firm’s clients include many multinational and national corporations including leading oil and gas and mining companies as well as other foreign investors, international banks and many diplomatic missions and international NGOs.  As well as its company-specific work, the firm was instrumental in founding and representing the Mozambican international petroleum operators’ association (Associação Moçambicana de Operadores Petrolíferas Internacionais (AMOPI)) and the Chamber of Mines of Mozambique (CMM). As such, SAL & Caldeira participates in the negotiation of legislation and regulations on behalf of the extractive industries vis-à-vis the Government in a broad range of matters, from sector-specific regulations to labour rules and tax laws. The firm also frequently represents Mozambique’s Confederation of Economic Associations (CTA) in the negotiation of strategic, business-related legislation (for example, the Mega-Projects Law and the Labour Law).  Although particularly recognised for its activity in the field of natural resources, the firm’s expertise covers the full range of legal disciplines including banking, tax, corporate, commercial, administrative law, employment, immigration and litigation. Most SAL & Caldeira lawyers speak English as well as Portuguese.

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English, French, Portuguese, Spanish