TTA

Number of partners: 1

Number of lawyers: 9

Languages: English, French, Portuguese

Firm Overview:

TTA – Sociedade de Advogados, a member of PLMJ Colab, brings together some of the most reputable Mozambican lawyers from various practice areas. TTA's lawyers have extensive academic and professional experience.

They boast unmatched know-how regarding the local market and combine this with a keen awareness of the international legal world. The firm is consistently recognised as a reference in the Mozambican market by international directories and awards.

TTA is a full-service firm with a solid track record in energy, infrastructure, M&A transactions and tax. While basing their professional activity in Mozambique, the lawyers of TTA work in close cooperation with PLMJ and other members of its international network to provide a seamless service to clients regardless of where they are. TTA legal services comply with the highest professional and ethical standards, supporting several social responsibility projects in Mozambique.

PLMJ Colab is a collaborative network of law firms across Portugal and other culturally and strategically close countries. International collaboration is ensured through firms specialising in the legal systems and local cultures of Angola, China/Macao, Guinea-Bissau, Mozambique, São Tomé and Príncipe and Timor-Leste.

Main Areas of Practice:

• Arbitration, Conciliation & Mediation:

TTA provides legal advice to private individuals and companies, as well as state bodies and companies, in domestic and international arbitration and litigation in Mozambican courts in commercial, civil, administrative, tax, customs and employment matters.

• Tax:

Legal advice, representing private individuals and companies and state bodies and companies on issues regarding tax law. Legal advice on tax matters is essential for the success of companies throughout their journey, from structuring, acquisition and restructuring operations to resolving tax disputes.

• Employment and Labour:

Legal advice, representing private individuals and companies and state bodies and companies on issues about employment law. TTA also has relevant experience in labour litigation, judicial and extrajudicial, through mediation and arbitration.

• Commercial, Corporate and M&A:

TTA provides legal advice in Commercial Law, dealing with any contractual acts and those inherent to the activity of commercial companies, accompanying their entire legal lifetime, from incorporation, amendment of statutes/articles, transformation, joint ventures, mergers and acquisitions (M&A), until its dissolution and liquidation.

• Public Law:

Legal advice in preparing and negotiating public contracts (goods and services, works, concessions), representing private individuals and companies, and awarding authorities.

• Mining and Natural Resources:

Drafting of various contracts in the mining area. Negotiation of allocation of mining concessions/licences. Due diligence work in the mining compliance area, including land and environment, for various entities, including the London and Sydney stock exchanges. TTA provides legal advice on several operations in the energy, oil & gas sectors, advising on the drafting of contracts and legal opinions on the legal framework applicable to these sectors.

• Public-Private Partnerships:

Taking into account the importance of the State Business Sector, TTA seeks to assist large national public companies and foreign investors in the most diverse public-private partnerships, bringing its vast experience into each operation.

• Foreign Investment:

Some of the most important investments made in Mozambique were monitored by TTA in the negotiation of investment projects, in the registration of the investment with the Bank of Mozambique, in the interaction with commercial banks in the context of importing capital, as well as in the incorporation and registration of companies to the project’s implementation.

• Banking, Finance and Insurance:

TTA provides legal advice on the design, structuring and execution of financial operations, assessing and advising clients on regulatory and foreign exchange matters. The legal firm also provides legal advice on implementing and developing activities in the banking, financial and insurance sectors.

• Telecommunications & IT:

Ongoing legal assistance to telecommunications companies, including operations in software licensing, IT consulting, software sales, software development, domain names, e-commerce, cloud services, and the regulatory sector.

• Dispute Resolution (Litigation):

TTA has experience in highly complex national and international litigation, being able to assist national and foreign clients, outside or inside Mozambique, for all categories of litigation, including international arbitration in any area of law.

• Public Law:

The team handle administrative litigation cases daily, including a range of matters related to the day-to-day activities of local authorities. TTA has followed the most relevant reforms in this sector, as a consultant for public entities and national or foreign private entities.

• Real Estate and Construction:

TA’s team provides legal advice on various real estate operations, in real estate developments for housing, tourism and industrial purposes and, in this context, advises its national and foreign clients on regulatory matters related to access to land for various purposes, construction of public and private works, as well as in the preparation of contracts and legal opinions on the applicable legal framework.

• General Legal Assistance:

TTA has provided ongoing legal assistance to some of the main companies operating in Mozambique.