Established in 2010

Total number of professionals: 32 (7 partners)
Principal office: Maputo

Key practice areas

Banking and finance; tax; restructuring & insolvency; investment funds; labour & employment; intellectual property; private equity; corporate/M&A; dispute resolution; insurance; real estate; mining, oil & gas.

Our services

SAL & Caldeira Advogados Lda is a leading, full-service Mozambican law firm headquartered in Maputo. We strive to combine local experience with international best practices to offer high-quality legal services. We are a member of DLA Piper Africa Group, an alliance of leading independent law firms working together in association with DLA Piper, both internationally and across Africa, since 2014. This alliance enables us to have access to regular trainings, international experience and best practice and to be able to offer our clients access to legal services in all jurisdictions where DLA Piper is present in Africa and around the world.

We are organised into seven practice groups, namely commercial, regulatory and public institutions; finance, banking and insurance; immigration and NGOs; labour; litigation and dispute resolution; projects, energy and infrastructure; and tax.

We are a medium-sized company with a total of 74 employees (including 2 interns), of whom 32 are lawyers admitted to the bar.

SAL & Caldeira Advogados Lda have been ranked band 1 firm for 12 consecutive years by Chambers & Partners (general business law), Legal 500 EMEA Top Tier, and IFLR 1000 financial, corporate and project development as tier 1 firm.