Sá Carneiro Pinheiro Torres & Associados (SCPT)

Provided by: SCPT - Sá Carneiro Pinheiro Torres & Associados

Greater China Region

Founding Partners: Ricardo Sá Carneiro, Gonçalo Pinheiro Torres

Senior Partners: José Costa, Joana Sales Leitão

Partners: Cheang Sio Neng (Carice), Alexandre Miguel Bastos, Lo Cheok In (Alex)

Number of lawyers: 12

Number of notaries: 3

Team: 29

Languages: Cantonese, English, French, Mandarin, Portuguese

Jurisdictions: Macau, Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area of the People’s Republic of China and Portugal

SCPT is a full-service law firm established in Macau since October 2001, composed by a team of multilingual lawyers, private notaries and legal support staff with extensive experience and knowledge in the Macau legal field.

The Firm has been assisting and advising clients within a wide range of fields of law, offering tailor-made and cost-effective solutions, consistently ensuring a high quality and trustworthy service.

SCPT is known for building long-standing and trusting relationships with its clients, who range from average persons to major companies, large corporations and other institutional clients, local, national and international, as well as law firms from all over the world.

Gaming Law

SCPT played an active role in the first public tender for the award of three concessions for the operation of games of chance in casino in Macau in 2001, by assisting and advising on all bidding legal aspects one of the bidders, ultimately awarded with a casino gaming concession.

The Firm assisted and advised that gaming concessionaire (and other connected companies) for almost a decade, in all kinds of matters related to the setting-up and operation of their businesses, namely the negotiation of the first casino gaming sub-concession contract, the first IPO listing (indirectly) a gaming concessionaire in the Hong Kong Stock Exchange, several Government land lease concessions for hotels and casinos and related administrative procedures, corporate, IP and Court matters.

From 2010 onwards, SCPT has been advising another major Macau gaming concessionaire (and companies from the same group), as external legal counsels, namely in the preparation and submission, in 2022, of its winning bid proposal to the second public tender for the granting of six concessions for the operation of casino games of chance in Macau.

Banking and Finance Law

SCPT has been assisting clients, either banks, syndicates, companies and individuals, with a vast set of financing transactions, from property mortgage loans to high-profile financings, having recently strengthened its collaboration with the Macau affiliate of one of the world’s leading banks, intervening and following-up in major financing, refinancing and restructuring operations with collateralization and IPO’s.

Property Law

SCPT has been advising and assisting clients with almost all types of land and property legal issues, matters and disputes, in and out of Court, namely several real estate entities and casino gaming concessionaires in a considerable number of high-profile cases, transactions and litigations on real estate in Macau.

Corporate, Contracts & M&A

SCPT deals with all kinds of corporate and business legal matters and cases, regarding companies, individuals and general commercial matters.

Notary & Conveyance

SCPT has a very strong private notary practice, assisting in preparing, executing and registering, each year hundreds of public deeds and other notary acts, the majority of which related to sale and purchase of immovable assets and collateralization.

Litigation & Dispute Resolution

SCPT has a an extensive experience in litigation and dispute resolution, in matters ranging from property law cases, tort cases, including medical malpractice, contractual liability, family and inheritance law, tax law, labour and IP law.

■ Family and Inheritance Law

■ Tax Law

■ Administrative and Public Law

■ Civil Law

■ Labour Law

■ IP Law

■ Medical Law

■ Data Protection Law

Av. da Praia Grande, nº 409, China Law Building, 25th Floor, Macau

Web: www.scpt.com.mo

Email: [email protected]

Tel: (853) 2837 2299

Fax: (853) 2837 1199