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The Founder · Profile

Who taught, reformed and led the system.

The firm’s founder, Ireneu Matamba, brings together a rare combination: State leadership of registries and business, the co-authorship of the country’s foundational laws, and two decades of university teaching.

Ireneu Matamba
Founder

20+

years of business-law experience

8

practice areas of the firm

3

working languages — Portuguese, English and Spanish

4

sectors served: companies, banking, insurance and the public sector

Pillars of authority

A life in the service of law.

Public administration

Leading the State’s registries and business desk

  • Director-General of the Business One-Stop Shop (GUE)
  • Director-General of the National Directorate of Identification, Registries and Notaries
  • Career notary
Legislative reform

Co-author of the law that governs the country

  • Member of the subcommittee for the reform of the Civil Code
  • Member of the subcommittee for the reform of the Family Code
  • Member of the Commission for the Reform of Justice and Law
  • Contribution to the latest draft of the Angolan Commercial Code, alongside Prof. Carlos Feijó
Teaching

19 years training jurists

  • Lecturer in Commercial Law and Family Law (for 19 years)
  • Master’s assistant in Commercial Contract Law and Company Law — Gregório Semedo University
  • Teaching in Registry & Notarial Law and Family Law
Professional training

A reference trainer

  • Training Centre of the Angolan Bar Association — Multidisciplinary Legal Practice (Registries and Notaries)
  • Former trainer at INEJ — National Institute of Judicial Studies
  • Trainer at the GestJus Academy — Commercial Law (broad sense) and Real Estate Law

Specialities

Commercial Law Corporate Law Banking Law Insurance Law Contract Law International Trade Law Tax Law Real Estate Law

Knowledge

Selected publications

  1. Dissertation

    Master’s dissertation

    Published and available in digital format.

  2. Book

    Os acordos parassociais no ordenamento jurídico angolano: análise e perspectivas

    Monograph (Shareholders’ agreements in the Angolan legal order: analysis and perspectives).

  3. Article

    Direito da família angolano: passado, presente e futuro

    Jus Expert Journal, no. 1, year I, 2021 (Angolan family law: past, present and future).

  4. Article

    La Responsabilidad Civil Del Proveedor En El Derecho Angoleño — Breve Análisis Comparado Con El Derecho Argentino

    Revista Jurídica de Daños, no. 17, April 2017, IJ Editores — Argentina. Under the direction of Prof. Dr. Lídia Garrido Cordobera.

  5. Article

    Restitución Internacional De Niños — Breves Reflexiones

    Journal of Family and Succession Law, no. 10, October 2017, IJ Editores — Argentina. Under the direction of Dr. Leandro Martín Merlo and Dr. Ignacio González Magaña.

  6. Chapter

    O direito à identidade genética e o estabelecimento judicial da paternidade

    On the right to genetic identity and the judicial establishment of paternity. In NUNES, Elisa Rangel (Ed.), Legal and Economic Studies in Honour of Professor Maria do Carmo Medina, FDUAN, Luanda, 2014, pp. 409-431.

    FDUAN · Luanda
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