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.
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.
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
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
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
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
Knowledge
Selected publications
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Dissertation
Master’s dissertation
Published and available in digital format.
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Book
Os acordos parassociais no ordenamento jurídico angolano: análise e perspectivas
Monograph (Shareholders’ agreements in the Angolan legal order: analysis and perspectives).
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Article
Direito da família angolano: passado, presente e futuro
Jus Expert Journal, no. 1, year I, 2021 (Angolan family law: past, present and future).
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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.
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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.
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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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Featured training
Programmes taught by the founder at the GestJus Academy, aimed at jurists, companies and legal professionals.
Corporate Legal Audit
Due diligence methodology and legal compliance auditing for companies and law firms.
Learn moreCommercial Law (broad sense)
From the business establishment to companies, contracts and credit instruments.
Learn moreReal Estate Law & Land Registry
Transactions, land regularisation and applied registry practice.
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