Mozambique

SAL & Caldeira Advogados, Lda is a full-service law firm offering expert legal knowledge for corporate clients, while actively working on legal reform in Mozambique. Having been active in the market for 25 years, the firm has been an active player in Mozambique's legislative evolution. Part of the firm's ethos is to train new lawyers to ensure the country's lawyers are adequately trained, and in order to achieve this SAL & Caldeira Advogados, Lda hires law graduates as interns on an annual basis.

• SAL & Caldeira Advogados, Lda is a member of DLA Piper Africa, an alliance of legal practices operating across Africa, Asia, Europe, the Middle East and the United States of America.
  
  
• The firm’s major clients include leading petroleum and mining companies; foreign investors; international banks; diplomatic missions and international NGOs. This clientele gives the firms lawyers exposure not only to Mozambican legal practices, but to legal best practices internationally. As a result, the firm is ranked by Chambers Global Top Ranked, and Legal 500 EMEA Top Tier, IFLR 1000 Financial & corporate and Project Development as Tier 1 firm.
  
  
• SAL & Caldeira Advogados, Lda is organized into seven Practice Groups (“PG’s”) namely: Commercial, Regulatory & Public Institutions; Finance, Banking & Insurance; Immigration & NGOs; Labour; Litigation & Dispute Resolution; Projects, Energy & Infrastructure; and Tax. Each PG is led by a Head of Practice, who is either a Partner or a Manager. Each PG consists of senior consultants, consultants, junior consultants, and interns who rotate amongst the PG. They are supported by administrative staff which includes sworn translators. SAL & Caldeira Advogados, Lda is a medium-sized company with a total of 74 employees (including 2 interns), of whom 32 are lawyers admitted to the Mozambican Bar Association.