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Position: Managing Partner
Rating:
  • Market leader
  • Women Leaders
Bar Admissions:
Macau
Portugal
Practice Areas:
Banking
M&A
Jurisdictions:
Biography

Manuela António is a well-known lawyer and private notary in Macau and the founding partner of Manuela António – Lawyers and Notaries. Highly regarded for her consistent legal knowledge as well as pragmatic approach. Manuela has been involved in the major legal challenges that have been taking place in Macau.

Recent transactional highlights
  • Assisted Nanyang Commercial Bank, Limited in a financing deal involving IPE Macao Commercial Offshore Limited (HKD 400,000,000.00)
  • Assisted HSBC HK in a financing deal involving Kam Hing Textile Macao Commercial Offshore Company Limited (HKD 1,300,000,000.00)
  • Assisted DBS Bank Limited in the context of secured syndicated facilities (SGD 240,000,000.00).
Practice areas
  • Banking
  • Capital markets: High yield
  • M&A
  • Project finance
  • Real estate finance
Sector specialisations
  • Banking
  • Financial services
  • Gaming
  • Insurance
  • Real estate
Bar admissions
  • Registered Lawyer with the Portuguese Bar Association
  • Registered Lawyer with the Macau Lawyers’ Association (since its foundation in 1991)
Association memberships
  • Macau Corporate Governance Institute
Academic qualifications
  • Course for Private Notaries, Macau SAR (1991)
  • Postgraduate studies in Economical Sciences, Law School, University of Lisbon, Portugal (1979)
  • Law Degree (LLB), Law School, University of Coimbra, Portugal (1973)
Address:
Macau SAR
Tel:+853 28 591 592 Email:Contact this practitioner Website:https://mantonio.net/team/manuela-antonio/