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Key contacts
Partner: Ana Cláudia Rangel
Quick facts
Number of lawyers

15

Languages

Portuguese, English, French, Spanish, Italian and Polish

Key practice areas
Financial and corporate
Project development
Project development
Firm overview

Raposo Bernardo is an international full-service law firm, with strong experience in the Angolan market.

The firm has been as involved regarding most relevant operations taken place at Lusophone countries at Africa: Angola, Cabo Verde, Guinea Bissau, Mozambique, and São Tomé and Príncipe. 

The Angola practice of Raposo Bernardo demonstrates a most sustained growth in terms of private and public operations performed by multinational leading players with sustained business interests in this rising star market. Raposo Bernardo has a team of 15 lawyers to cover the massive development of Angolan operations, demanding a strong multidisciplinary local team and the experience and expertise of the firm to run what are mainly international operations.

New investors keep reaching Angola, bringing investment intentions of huge projects. The firm has been handling foreign investment from China, Japan, USA, UK, Canada, Brazil, France, Germany or Iberia acting in sectors such as: oil & gas, renewable, banking, insurance, real estate, construction, automobile, technologies or telecommunications.

Key transactional practices
  • Arbitration
  • Aviation
  • Banking and Finance
  • Construction
  • Corporate and Commercial Law
  • Corporate Finance
  • Energy and natural resources
  • Foreign investment
  • Labour
  • M&A
  • Oil & Gas
  • PPP (public-private partnerships)
  • Privatisations
  • Project finance
  • Projects and infrastructures 
  • Public works
  • Real estate
  • Shipping
  • Tax
Sector expertise
  • Banking & Finance
  • Energy and Projects
  • State and Government
  • Real Estate 
  • Aviation
  • Shipping
  • Logistics
  • Mining
  • Hotels and Tourism
  • Construction
  • Oil & Gas
Other offices

Av. Fontes Pereira de melo, n.º 35 18ºA
City, Postcode 1050-118 Lisboa
Country Portugal

T: + 351 21 312 13 30
F: + 351 21 356 29 08
E: lisboa@raposobernardo.com
W: www.raposobernardo.com

Paseo de la Castellana, n.º 126 – 8ª
City, Postcode  28046 Madrid
Country Spain

T: + 34 917 450 874
F: + 34 915 611 850
E: madrid@raposobernardo.com
W: www.raposobernardo.com

Skylight Building – 14º piętro, Zlote Tarasy, Ul. Zlota 59
City, Postcode  00-120 Warszawa              
Country Poland

T: + 48 22 457 7630
F: + 48 22 457 7601
E: warsaw@raposobernardo.com
W: www.raposobernardo.com

  • Cape Verde
  • Guinea-Bissau
  • Mozambique
  • Sao Tome and Principe
Address:
Rua Fernao Lopes, 38 Bairro de Sambizanga
Luanda
Tel:+351 21 312 13 30 Fax:+351 21 356 29 08 Email:Contact Us Web Address:http://www.raposobernardo.com
Rankings published in 2026
Financial and corporate
Tier 2
12 firms ranked
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Tier 1

ALC Advogados
3 practice areas
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FBL Advogados
4 practice areas
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Fátima Freitas & Associados
4 practice areas
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Tier 2

AVM Advogados
4 practice areas
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PLMJ Colab - RVA Advogados
4 practice areas
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PRIME Advogados
4 practice areas
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Raposo Bernardo
3 practice areas
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Tier 3

ADCA - Advogados Carvalho & Associados
3 practice areas
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CMS LBR
2 practice areas
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FTL Advogados
3 practice areas
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Notable

Eversheds Sutherland FCB
1 practice area
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MG Advogados
4 practice areas
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Project development
Tier 3
9 firms ranked
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Tier 1

FBL Advogados
4 practice areas
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Fátima Freitas & Associados
4 practice areas
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Tier 2

PLMJ Colab - RVA Advogados
4 practice areas
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PRIME Advogados
4 practice areas
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Tier 3

ADCA - Advogados Carvalho & Associados
3 practice areas
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AVM Advogados
4 practice areas
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FTL Advogados
3 practice areas
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Raposo Bernardo
3 practice areas
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Notable

MG Advogados
4 practice areas
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Linked Reviews
Financial and corporate

Raposo Bernardo & Associados is a Portuguese firm with offices in two further European countries and five African nations. The firm has a full-service offering in Angola. Its team of 14 lawyers based in Luanda are led by Ana Cláudia Rangel. The firm specialises in deals with a particular emphasis on work related to financial and project development matters. Much of the firm’s project work sees it advising international investors and corporations, especially from Portugal and Brazil.

 

Highlights 

 The firm is advising on an investment of €325 million for the construction, operation, and maintenance of a central coordination of all the various urban solid waste treatment plants which covers more than 35 areas for the collection and treatment of garbage and other waste. 

The firm is also advising on a massive new-born social housing project including sanitation works and connection to the public network, as well as the respective streets and access to public transportation, in a total area of 30,000 m2 with capacity for 250 families. 

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