Member Profiles

Alberto Soares & Associados SROC is a Portuguese statutory auditing firm established in 2012, registered at the Statutory Auditing Chamber (OROC) in Portugal under the number 276. Some of Alberto Soares & Associados’ partners have more than 20 years of experience and several competences to support their clients. Alberto Soares & Associados is placed in four offices: three in Lisbon and one in Leiria, in the centre of Portugal. Their team comprises 20 persons with different experiences and skills. They offer a proactive approach to their clients. Their services are always focused on providing the highest standards and quality in order to fulfill the needs of their clients.

Rita Mayer Jardim holds a Masters (with Distinction) from Oxford University (Kellogg College) having earned her law degree from Lisbon University. She is currently studying for a Doctorate at Universidade de Coimbra. She is qualified as a lawyer in Portugal and Brazil. She set up MAYER JARDIM, a boutique Private Client law practice to contribute with a new holistic approach to private wealth legal advisory in Portugal to best service clients with an international footprint. This follows her experience at one of the most successful London law firms (Mishcon de Reya) and as COO of an international network of leading law firms (Legalink). She lived and worked in Los Angeles, Melbourne, New York, Lisbon, São Paulo, and London. Rita speaks Portuguese, English, Spanish and French.

Algarve Assistants is an innovative company, since 2006, who are able to offer any form of support services for Portuguese property owners and visitors to Portugal. Whether you require a one off service such as car matriculation or a rental license for your house or regular on-going assistance such as fiscal representation or assistance with your property management Algarve Assistants are the company to meet your needs. All our services can be provided on a one off basis or alternatively can form part of an annual contract combined with other services. To give our clients the best possible service we are able to assist you from office on the Algarve, we have an office ideally located in Patacão near Faro. If you have anything that you think we can help you with please give us as call and you will be impressed by the high quality and knowledgeable service that we will provide you with. Our mission is to save you money – but at the same time give you an unrivalled quality service.

The firm offers a full range of legal services with particular strengths in mergers and acquisitions, corporate law, commercial contracts, banking and finance, capital markets, energy, telecommunications, commercial dispute resolution, real estate, transport law and labor law, among others. The firm’s lawyers are qualified in both common and civil law jurisdictions. It has been referred to in international legal directories such as the Chambers & Partners, Legal 500 and PLC’s Which Lawyer. Several of its lawyers have also been specifically distinguished as leading experts in their fields by reputed law directories and international specialists.

Antonio Lobo Vilela is a lawyer qualified to practice in Macau, Portugal, and Brazil. His practice is almost entirely focused on gaming law. He was a senior legal adviser to the Commission of the first public tender to grant casino gaming concessions in Macau (2001-2002), and to the Macau Gaming Commission, a consultative body of, and presided over by, the Macau Chief Executive (2003-2009), dealing with the Hong Kong IPO projects of the Macau gaming operators, the financing projects, and the drafting of strategic papers on Macau gaming. He was also charged with (co)drafting the legal and regulatory framework for casino gaming, which is still in force, and the casino gaming concession and sub-concession contracts. He was a partner and founding member of LVT Lawyers, a boutique law firm focused on gaming law (2010-2015), and a legal adviser to the Secretary for Economy and Finance of the Macau government on gaming and gaming-related matters, as well as a member of the legislative affairs working group of the Macau Gaming Commission (2016-2020). He was an extern at the Nevada Gaming Control Board (2021) and is a member of the Gaming Law Committee of the Brazilian Bar Association (Federal District, Brasilia). He currently lectures Gaming Law at the Faculty of Business Administration of the University of Macau. Lobo Vilela has published several articles on gaming law, namely the Macau chapter at the Chambers & Partners Global Practice Guides on Gaming, Gambling & Licensing (2018), and is on the Expert Panel of The Law Reviews, a publication where he co-authors the chapter on Macau Gaming & Gambling.He is the author of the four-volume ‘Macau Gaming Law – Annotated with Comments,’ the most comprehensive book in English on the Macau (casino) gaming law (www.macaugaminglaw.com). He is also a regular speaker on events related to gaming. He holds a Law Degree with honors from the Faculty of Law of the University of Lisbon, Portugal, and a Master's Degree/LL.M in Gaming Law & Regulation from the William S. Boyd School of Law, UNLV - University of Nevada, Las Vegas. He is ranked in Chambers Asia Pacific 2015 (General Business Law), Global 2015 (General Business Law), Asia Pacific 2016 (General Business Law and Gaming and Gambling) and received from Global Awards the Gaming Lawyer of the Year 2019-20, 2020-21 and 2021-22 awards.