José Lupi

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Dr. José Lupi is the founder and Managing Partner of José Lupi & Associates.

He has over a decade of experience in cross-border corporate M&A, banking and finance, private equity, investment funds, securities, and debt capital market transactions covering a broad range of sectors from financial services to energy, resources, mining, and infrastructure projects in Greater China, Africa, Europe, and Latin America, with a special focus in Brazil, Macau, Angola, Mozambique, and Portugal.

Dr. José Lupi is qualified to practice in Macau, Brazil, and Portugal. He is an appointed arbitrator of the Hainan International Arbitration Court and a mediator and arbitrator with the Japan Commercial Arbitration Association. He is also a member of the Macau Wealth Management Association and the Belt and Road International Lawyers Association.

Prior to founding José Lupi and as an international partner of King & Wood Mallesons (KWM) in Beijing, Dr. José Lupi regularly advised Chinese and international private and state-owned companies and funds in some of the largest transactions and investments between China and Brazil, Angola, Argentina, Congo, Spain, Mexico and Mozambique. In Brazil, he was an attorney at law and head of the China desk of Gabriel Quintanilha in Rio de Janeiro, where he advised Chinese private and state-owned enterprises with the full range of their Brazilian corporate and tax matters.

In Africa, Dr. José Lupi was the Greater China counsel of one of the largest private investors in the mining, infrastructure, real estate, banking, finance, aviation, energy, and agriculture sectors in Angola, Democratic Republic of Congo, Mozambique, Portugal, and the Republic of Congo. Previously he was a legal consultant and head of business development of a large Macau law firm and legal counsel of a multinational corporate service provider in Lisbon, Portugal. His other roles include working as a foreign legal consultant for a Hong Kong residency by an investment boutique law firm and as an international management consultant for a strategic advisory group in Madrid, Spain.

Dr. José Lupi holds a Doctor in International Law (Ph.D.) from the China University of Political Science and Law in Beijing, a Master in International Business Administration (M.I.B.) from the Faculty of Economics and Business Administration of the Chongqing University under a scholarship from the Central Government of China, and a Juris Doctor (J.D.) from the Faculty of Law of the University of Lisbon in Portugal. He also holds a Juris Doctor (J.D.) Erasmus Program from the Faculty of Law of the University of Genoa in Italy.

He is fluent in Mandarin Chinese, Portuguese, Spanish, English, and Italian.

Professional Memberships

Macau Lawyers Association

Brazil Bar Association

Portugal Bar Association

Expert in these Jurisdictions

Macau, Brazil and Portugal

Languages Spoken

Portuguese, Mandarin Chinese, Spanish, Italian and English

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