Antonio Vicente Marques, the Managing Partner, founded AVM Advogados in 2003, in Angola, Luanda. In 2010, he established the firm in Portugal (Lisbon and Oporto) and Mozambique (Maputo) assisting Clients as an international full-service law firm. Antonio has worked extensively in matters involving Foreign Investment, Banking, Financial and Insurance, Commercial Contracts, Capital Markets, Tax, Labour and Migration, Corporate, Energy and Natural Resources, Administrative Law and Customs, and in the technology sectors.

Antonio Vicente Marques has a degree in Law by the University of Coimbra Law School and a master’s degree in Legal Forensic Sciences, by the Coimbra University Law School. He is a member of the Portuguese Arbitration Association since 2009 and admitted to the Portuguese, American, Angolan and Brazilian Bars Associations.

Antonio Vicente Marques has been ranked by Chambers and Partners Global since 2013, following the next editions as a leading lawyer in General Business Law and as an expert in Oil & Gas and Tax in the IFLR Sub-Saharan Africa Energy & Infrastructure Guide. He has also been ranked as a leading lawyer by Chambers and Partners and Legal 500 since 2013 following all the next editions.