JC Advogados

PRACTICE & EXPERTISE

Main Areas of Practice

    • Banking regulation and supervision;
    • Project finance;
    • Loans and guarantees (domestic and international);
    • Bonds;
    • Foreign investment and exchange controls;
    • Commercial/Contracts ;
    • Corporate Law ;
    • Mergers and acquisitions ;
    • Governance;
    • Joint ventures ;
    • Restructuring and insolvency
    • Procurement ;
    • Administrative contracts / public works contracts;
    • Tenders ;
    • Licensing;
    • General Advice;
    • License/regulatory;
    • Contracts;
    • Pension Funds;
    • Private employment agencies and recruitment agencies ;
    • Employment law ;
    • Contracts ;
    • Social security;
    • Licensing;
    • Investment schemes and financing;
    • Property management ;
    • Land development ;
    • Immigration matters;
    • National and municipal taxes;
    • Direct and indirect taxes;
    • Tax diagnosis and planning;
    • International taxation / Double taxation;
    • Litigation;
    • Advice/consultancy;

Sectors and Industries

Partner

Josina Correia

Professional Summary

Josina is an attorney with more than 15 years of experience, acquired in the most prestigious law firms, as well as in a global auditing firm, operating in Mozambique, focusing practicing in a wide range of legal areas, more specifically, in corporate, tax, commercial, banking and finance, investment and exchange controls, labour and immigration, concessions/PPPs, and, in drafting of legislation. She currently provides services on her own account through her own law firm “JCA Advogados”.

Practice Areas

Tax, Corporate/Commercial, Banking and Finance, Labour, Administrative

Expertise

Trade and Project Finance, Natural Resources, Telecoms, Concessions

Languages

Portuguese
English

Academic Curriculum

• Law degree from “A Politécnica” (ISPU), Maputo;
• Intensive course on International Oil & Gas Law, Contracts, and Negotiation, organized by Rocky Mountain Mineral Law Foundation, Houston, USA, 2015;
• Intensive course on procurement legislation and accounting and tax rules for oil and gas concession contracts organized by PwC Mozambique and PwC Portugal, 2014;
• Intensive course in arbitration, conciliation and mediation organized by the Maputo Arbitration, Conciliation and Mediation Centre, 2004;
• Course in Legal English for Lawyers, Cambridge University, UK.

Professional Curriculum

• Partner at JCA Law Firm, 2017 – present
• Senior Associate Lawyer at TTA Law Firm, 2011 – 2017
• Senior Associate at MGA Law Firm, 2009 – 2011(last position)
• Tax and Legal Consultant at Deloitte & Touche Moçambique, 2003 – 2006.

Professional Associations

• The Mozambican Bar Association;
• The Centre for Arbitration, Conciliation and Mediation of Maputo (registered as an arbitrator);
• The International Bar Association (IBA)